Main description:

This book brings together 12 previously unpublished language profiles based on the original Language Assessment, Remediation and Screening Procedure (LARSP). The languages featured are: Bangla, Croatian, Colombian Spanish, Inuktitut, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swahili, Tamil and Turkish. Some of these languages are included as they are likely to be encountered as home languages of clients by speech-language therapists and pathologists working in the UK, the US, Australia and elsewhere. Others are included because they are languages found where speech-language pathology services are provided, but where no grammatical profile already exists. The collection will be an invaluable resource book for speech-language pathologists who wish to analyse and assess the grammatical abilities of their clients who speak one of these languages. This new collection complements previous books in this series on the same theme and together they cover 34 languages of the world.

Contents:

Introduction: Martin J. Ball, Paul Fletcher and David Crystal

Chapter 1. Ingeborg Sophie Ribu, Hanne Gram Simonsen, Morten Aase Lover, Bror-Magnus Sviland Strand and Kristian Emil Kristoffersen: N-LARSP: A Developmental Language Profile for Norwegian

Chapter 2. N. Gabriela Moffatt and Nicole Muller: Developing a Linguistic Profile for Russian

Chapter 3. Svetlana Kapalkova and Daniela Slancova: Language Assessment, Remediation, and Screening Procedure for Slovak-speaking Children

Chapter 4. Vesna Mildner, Vesna Stojanovik and Diana Tomic: Croatian LARSP

Chapter 5. Darija Skubic, Ana Praprotnik, Tamara Sevsek and Martina Ozbic, with Jerneja Novsak Brce and Damjana Kogovsek: Slovenian LARSP

Chapter 6. Ana Castro, Carolina Marques and Catarina Doro: LARSP-PE: A Developmental Language Profile for European Portuguese-speaking children

Chapter 7. Maryluz Camargo-Mendoza, Ana Isabel Codesido-Garcia and Elena Garayzabal- Heinze: CS-LARSP: Colombian Spanish Morphosyntactic Development Profile

Chapter 8. Asifa Sultana, Stephanie Stokes, Thomas Klee & Paul Fletcher: Towards a Micro-profile of Bangla Verb Inflection

Chapter 9. OEzlem Cangoekce Yasar and Seyhun Topbas: Adapting LARSP to Turkish: TR-LARSP Part II

Chapter 10. R. Lalitha Raja: T-LARSP: A Grammatical Profile for Tamil

Chapter 11. Kamil Ud Deen: The Assessment of the Acquisition of Swahili: Towards the S-LARSP

Chapter 12. Shanley E. M. Allen, Catherine B. Dench and Kerry Isakson: InuLARSP: An Adaptation of the Language Assessment, Remediation, and Screening Procedure for Inuktitut