The article analyzes therapeutic interactional styles with language disordered children, notes a shift in clinical goals and in clinical procedures as influenced by behaviorism, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics. A typical therapy session is described incorporating features that facilitate normal language acquisition (such as imitation and…

Presented is a data recording form said to be an efficient way for school speech and language clinicians to record and retrieve program data necessary for effective case management of large numbers of communicatively handicapped students. (LS)

The paper presents a symptom approach for the intervention of childhood language disorders. Intervention guidelines are presented in the following areas of functioning: two-word utterances, auxiliaries, grammatical structures, auditory comprehension, discourse, and symbolic play. Behavioral analysis, rather than etiological classification, forms…

Research on pragmatics and its significance for children with language impairments is reviewed. Topics addressed include the development of speech acts (communicative intentions) and the linguistic orientation of speech acts. The value of a pragmatic orientation in clinical intervention is considered. (CL)

The author discusses the professional responsibilities and professional behavior of speech and hearing clinicians. (LS)

Described are the cases of two language disordered children (9 and 10 years old) who became excessively disfluent during the course of articulation and language remediation. (Author/SBH)

The article examines the contributions of both audiologists and speech-language pathologists to the diagnosis and management of students with central auditory processing disorders and language impairments. (CL)

The classification, diagnosis, and treatment of children with language disorders should reflect hypotheses about the different levels of cause-effect relationships that exist among the structures, processes, and behaviors involved in language. Clinical examples are presented to illustrate the way in which classification, diagnosis, and treatment…

The paper stresses that, in teaching language handicapped children, the natural reinforcement of language as means of communication, of obtaining wants, is of more value than reinforcers (such as candy) often used in clinical settings. (PHR)

The introduction to four papers on generalization in language intervention stresses the importance of generalization, the need to have reasonable expectations for generalization following intervention, and ways that learned insights about language form, content, and use can encourage generalization of new skills. (DB)

An approach to treating mild to moderately severe cases of the speech disturbance, apraxia, focuses on helping the patient establish a conscious knowledge of how an accurate response is produced through a five-phase training program. (DB)

Following a treatment program in which an invented morpheme was taught through either imitation or modeling procedures, generalization of 40 specific language-impaired young children was compared to that of 40 non-impaired children. The abnormal group generalized more following imitation teaching while the normal group generalized more following…

The article reviews normal developmental patterns for naming and discusses research comparing children with normal language and those with language disorders. Implications for assessment and intervention approaches for children with word finding difficulties are noted. (CL)

The program for training speech therapists at the George Washington University Speech and Hearing Clinic is discussed, and methods used by the therapists are described. (DB)