INCREASING LANGUAGE SKILLS OF STUDENTS FROM LOW INCOME BACKGROUNDS:

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ABOUT THE BOOK
A wholly practical book that helps speech-language pathologists, educationists and other professionals to understand the growing statistical reality and culture of poverty, and its implications for children’s developing language, and to provide strategies that are most effective in supporting these children and their families.

The author uniquely and specifically addresses the combination of information about the “culture of poverty”; background information on factors impacting low-income children’s language skills; practical strategies for nonbiased assessment of these children’s language skills; practical strategies for intervention with these children; practical strategies for structuring the school environment to be optimal for these children; and practical strategies for working with these children’s families.

CONTENTS

• The Culture of Poverty.
• Poverty: General Impact on Children’s Development.
• Factors Impacting Language Development of Children from Low-Income Backgrounds.
• Nonbiased Assessment of the Language Skills of Children from Low-Income Backgrounds: Practical Strategies.
• Intervention for Low-Income Children with Language Problems: Practical Strategies.
• Practical Strategies for Structuring the School Environment to Support Low-Income Children.
• Working with Families of Low-Income Children.
• Index.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Celeste Roseberry-McKibbin, Ph.D., Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, California State University, Sacramento.

AUDIENCE
Primary: Speech-Language Pathology

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