Keywords

discrete skills, language learning disabilities, pervasive language disorders, reading disabilities, strategic intervention

 

Authors

  1. Wallach, Geraldine P. PhD, CCC-SLP

Abstract

The author reflects upon some of the similarities and differences that exist across 25 years of research and practice in language learning disabilities and provides examples of how definitions of and perceptions about language, learning, and reading disabilities are still evolving. The author also evaluates language intervention approaches then and now.