NursingCenter Journal Feed: Topics in Language Disorders http://www.nursingcenter.com en-us @NC 2006 From the Editor http://www.nursingcenter.com/library/JournalArticle.asp?Article_ID=969667 Journal Title: Topics in Language Disorders 
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Issue pub date:January/March 2010 

Volume:30 Number:1  

Pages:1 -2  
 Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:19:49 EST
Nickola Nelson PhD, Editor

Katharine Butler PhD, Editor Emerita
 Foreword http://www.nursingcenter.com/library/JournalArticle.asp?Article_ID=969670 Journal Title: Topics in Language Disorders 
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Issue pub date:January/March 2010 

Volume:30 Number:1  

Pages:3 -4  
 Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:19:42 EST
Li-Rong Cheng PhD, Issue Editor
 It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: Pulling Language-Based Learning Disabilities out of the Drifting Snow http://www.nursingcenter.com/library/JournalArticle.asp?Article_ID=969673 Journal Title: Topics in Language Disorders 
Abstract :In this article, the visual metaphor of drifting snow is used as a reminder of past and current practices in language-learning disabilities that sometimes keep professionals frozen in time. Continuing with metaphoric images, readers are reminded to evaluate their intervention choices, question popul.... 

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Issue pub date:January/March 2010 

Volume:30 Number:1  

Pages:6 -14  
 Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:20:08 EST
Geraldine Wallach PhD
 Thirty Years Before Topics in Language Disorders: A Personal History http://www.nursingcenter.com/library/JournalArticle.asp?Article_ID=969681 Journal Title: Topics in Language Disorders 
Abstract :In the 1950s, the assessment and management of children with language impairments emphasized their auditory and visual processing deficits and relied heavily on classifications of adult language disorders. Many compelling theoretical insights were offered, but research in language acquisition was in.... 

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Volume:30 Number:1  

Pages:15 -21  
 Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:27:07 EST
Joel Stark PhD
 Language Learning Disability and Individual Differences: Can We See Between the Lines? http://www.nursingcenter.com/library/JournalArticle.asp?Article_ID=969689 Journal Title: Topics in Language Disorders 
Abstract :In honor of Dr. Katherine Butlerʼs extraordinary leadership of Topics in Language Disorders, this article takes up her 1982 challenge to reach toward greater understanding of individual differences in the use of oral and written language by children with language learning disability. The articl.... 

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Volume:30 Number:1  

Pages:22 -27  
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Elaine Silliman PhD
 Improving Reading Instruction: A Call for Interdisciplinary Collaboration http://www.nursingcenter.com/library/JournalArticle.asp?Article_ID=969699 Journal Title: Topics in Language Disorders 
Abstract :The state of reading proficiency in the United States has been under attack for decades. Attempts to improve reading achievement through instructional practices have taken the profession through the reading wars to balanced-reading to evidenced-based methods. Unfortunately, the professional de.... 

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Volume:30 Number:1  

Pages:28 -38  
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Diane Sawyer PhD
 Reading Expository Material: Are We Asking the Right Questions? http://www.nursingcenter.com/library/JournalArticle.asp?Article_ID=969720 Journal Title: Topics in Language Disorders 
Abstract :In the past 12 years, middle and high school students across the United States have read with declining levels of proficiency compared to both international and national standards. It is thought that American studentsʼ overall low reading performance is related to the amount of expository mater.... 

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Volume:30 Number:1  

Pages:39 -47  
 Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:26:37 EST
Lynn Snyder PhD
 It's Not the Language: Alternative Explanations of the Education Gap for African American Children http://www.nursingcenter.com/library/JournalArticle.asp?Article_ID=969741 Journal Title: Topics in Language Disorders 
Abstract :This article encourages educators and speech language pathologists to look beyond the language of African American English speakers for an explanation of the Black White achievement gap in education. A brief historical overview shows that the attention to the performance of African American children.... 

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Volume:30 Number:1  

Pages:48 -56  
 Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:20:45 EST
Gloria Weddington PhD
 Lessons From the Renaissance: The Power of Multiple Knowledge Bases http://www.nursingcenter.com/library/JournalArticle.asp?Article_ID=969752 Journal Title: Topics in Language Disorders 
Abstract :This article applies the Renaissance paradigm of Homo universalis to a 30-year retrospective of services provided in education settings to children and youth with language disorders. It also proposes directions to take for the future. The Renaissance ideal of Homo universalis refers to an indivi.... 

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Volume:30 Number:1  

Pages:57 -63  
 Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:26:02 EST
Kathleen Whitmire PhD, CCC-SLP

Joanna Beck MEd, CCC-SLP
 Multiliteracies: The Changing World of Communication http://www.nursingcenter.com/library/JournalArticle.asp?Article_ID=969767 Journal Title: Topics in Language Disorders 
Abstract :The technological and social/cultural demands of the 21st century are reshaping communication requirements. Students not only need to be able to communicate effectively in oral and written language, but they also need to communicate effectively in multimodal ways they need to become skilled in multi.... 

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Volume:30 Number:1  

Pages:64 -71  
 Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:26:08 EST
Carol Westby PhD
 Child Language Disability: A Historical Perspective http://www.nursingcenter.com/library/JournalArticle.asp?Article_ID=969784 Journal Title: Topics in Language Disorders 
Abstract :This article traces the historical foundations of the identification of language disorders in childhood through an international perspective. It describes the development of the profession of speech language pathology, initially in Western Europe and later in North America. The roles played by key r.... 

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Volume:30 Number:1  

Pages:72 -78  
 Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:19:35 EST
Marie De Montfort Supple PhD

Ewa Söderpalm PhD
 Immigration, Cultural Linguistic Diversity, and Topics in Language Disorders http://www.nursingcenter.com/library/JournalArticle.asp?Article_ID=969811 Journal Title: Topics in Language Disorders 
Abstract :This article summarizes 4 topics contributed by the author over the last 30 years of Topics in Language Disorders that address the issues of immigration, migration, and refugees. The focus is on the historical perspectives on evolution of terminologies from limited English proficient to English lang.... 

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Volume:30 Number:1  

Pages:79 -83  
 Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:19:56 EST
Li-Rong Cheng PhD
 Thirty-Five Years of Care of Child Language in Egypt http://www.nursingcenter.com/library/JournalArticle.asp?Article_ID=969820 Journal Title: Topics in Language Disorders 
Abstract :The team of the Unit of Phoniatrics and Logopedics of the Ain Shams University Clinic in Cairo, Egypt, has worked for three and half decades to spread awareness of child language disorders. This involved publications to inform the public, as well as health care professionals, about the needs of chil.... 

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Issue pub date:January/March 2010 

Volume:30 Number:1  

Pages:84 -91  
 Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:27:13 EST
M. Kotby MD, MCh, FRCS (AH) ED

Safaa El-Sady MD

Mona Hegazi MD