TY - BOOK AU - Wallach, Geraldine P., editor. AU - Butler, Katharine G., editor. TI - Language learning disabilities in school-age children and adolescents : : some principles and applications / SN - 0675221536 U1 - DC 618.92855 1994 PY - 1994/// CY - New York : PB - Maxwell Macmillan International, KW - Learning disabled children KW - Language KW - Education KW - Language disorders in children KW - Treatment KW - Oral communication N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Introductory considerations, oral language connections to literacy, and the classroom -- Creating communication, literacy, and academic success / Geraldine P. Wallach and Katharine G. Butler -- Discourse scaffolds for classroom intervention / Elaine R. Silliman and Louise Cherry Wilkinson -- Metalinguistic development / Anne van Kleeck -- School language and learning : making scaffolding and metas matter -- Focus on assessment : potential and progress -- Curriculum-based language assessment and intervention across the grades / Nickola Wolf Nelson -- Models and practices of dynamic assessment / Annemarie Sullivan Palincsar ... [and others] -- Observation is more than looking / Elaine R. Silliman and Louise Cherry Wilkinson -- On being observant and dynamic in school-based contexts and elsewhere -- A closer look : discourse across ages, stages, and language styles and abilities -- The effects of culture on genre, structure, and style of oral and written texts / Carol E. Westby -- A discourse continuum for school-age students : impact of modality and genre / Cheryl M. Scott -- Early literacy acquisition : the role of phonological awareness / Benita A. Blachman -- Nonliteral language abilities : seeing the forest for the trees / Linda M. Milosky -- Problem-solving strategies for academic success / Camille L.Z. Blachowicz -- Word finding difficulties in children and adolescents / Diane J. German -- Pulling the pieces together for students in trouble -- Special issues : understanding the nature of language disorders across tasks and time -- Variability and language learning disabilities / Margaret Lahey and Lois Bloom -- Auditory linguistic processing and language learning / Sandy Friel-Patti -- New directions for meeting the academic needs of adolescents with language learning dsabilities / Barbara J. Ehren -- Keeping on track to the twenty-first century / Katherine G. Butler and Geraldine P. Wallach ER -