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The unintelligible child: a problem for the health care team
Author(s) -
STACKHOUSE JOY,
CAMPBELL HELEN
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
child: care, health and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1365-2214
pISSN - 0305-1862
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2214.1983.tb00331.x
Subject(s) - psychology , mythology , psycholinguistics , phonology , linguistics , developmental psychology , audiology , cognitive psychology , medicine , history , psychiatry , philosophy , cognition , classics
Summary As a result of the rapid growth of applied psycholinguistic research it is necessary to explode some of the myths of normal and abnormal speech development. The following paper is an attempt to clarify the nature of phonological development and disability and to draw general implications for assessment and management of the unintelligible child.