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   An Emergence Approach to Speech Acquisition: Doing and Knowing

   The central assertion in this volume is that the young child uses general skills, scaffolded by adults, to acquire the complex knowledge of sound patterns and the goal-directed behaviors for communicating ideas through language and producing speech.

   Throughout, an evaluation is made of the research on patterns of typical development across languages in monolingual and bilingual children and children with speech impairments affecting various aspects of their developing complex system.

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   Bestselling titles now available in paperback

   Paperbacks Direct are topical books that represent the best of our cutting-edge hardback publishing in a paperback format and price. Check out which of our Paperbacks Direct are publishing this month.

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   How Open Access will change Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences

   In a major contribution to the era-defining debate, this full Special Issue of Psychological Inquiry offers a range of views on how the Open Access Science movement will impact the study and practice of Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences.
   
   Click here to read the FREE Special Issue in full.

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   Check Out Our Paperbacks Direct: Neuropsychology, Language Disorders and Health Psychology Catalog

   We have put together this online catalog filled with Paperback Direct Neuropsychology, Language Disorders and Health Psychology books published by Psychology Press and Routledge.

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   Developmental Neuropsychology

   Developmental Neuropsychology draws upon the research of Alexander Luria and Lev Vygotsky to present a comprehensive study of developmental neuropsychology from a Russian, and Western perspective. Janna Glozman offers a fresh and accessible analysis of Luria and Vygotsky’s collaboration, which greatly influenced the field of neuropsychology as we know it today.

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   Short-term and Working Memory Impairments in Aphasia

   Research in language processing and language impairment has focused extensively on elements of linguistic representation that are accessed and retrieved in comprehension, repetition and production of words and sentences. These studies have provided important information about the effects of characteristics of words (e.g., frequency, imageability) and sentences (e.g., syntactic and semantic argument structure) on language processing.

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   Handbook of Vowels and Vowel Disorders

   In the general study of speech and phonetics, vowels have stood in second place to consonants. But what vowels are, how they differ from one another, how they vary among speakers, and how they are subject to disorder, are questions that require a closer examination.

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   BCoS Cognitive Screen Test

   BCoS (Birmingham Cognitive Screen) is a new test instrument developed to screen patients for cognitive problems following brain damage. It provides a novel 'cognitive profile' across a range of cognitive processes within a one-hour testing session that will indicate whether a patient has a clinical impairment (related to norms) in five primary domains of cognition:

   • Attention and executive function
   • Language
   • Memory
   • Number skills
   • Praxis and action.
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   Writing

   This book captures the diversity and richness of writing as it relates to different forms of abilities, skills, competencies, and expertise.

   It will be an invaluable resource for researchers interested in language and cognition, and also educators and clinicians.

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    Perspectives on Agrammatism

    Perspectives on Agrammatism provides an up-to-date overview of research that has been done over the past two decades. With contributions from the most influential aphasiologists from Europe and the United States, it provides an indispensable reference for students and academics in the field of language disorders.

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