Clinical Approaches to Emergent Literacy Intervention
by Laura M. Justice, Ph.D.
This seminal text provides a scholarly overview of current evidence-based approaches to emergent literacy intervention as a necessary component of clinical practice in speech-language pathology. The scope of this book is comprehensive yet focused: it is tailored to identify state-of-the-art approaches on a range of topics in the area of emergent literacy, yet focuses its emphasis on children from toddlerhood to kindergarten. This period corresponds to the emergent literacy years, which precedes children’s transition to beginning reading.

Sharing Books and Stories as a Clinical Tool
by Anne van Kleeck, Ph.D.
The role of parent-child and teacher-child shared storybook reading has been shown to be a key vehicle for supporting children's development of emergent literacy and early language skills. This book brings the advantages of shared storybook reading to the clinical setting, demonstrating how it may be used to support vocabulary, print knowledge, phonological awareness, and inferential language abilities, among other topics. This book synthesizes and applies current theory and research on uses of storybook reading in an intervention context and as a clinical tool. With contributions from notable scholars who actively conduct research in this area. Speech-language pathologists will find Sharing Books and Stories as a Clinical Tool a significant resource on this important aspect of clinical practice.

Assessment in Emergent and Early Literacy
by Khara L. Pence, Ph.D.
This handbook provides a practical and useable guide to identifying preschool and early school-aged children’s strengths and needs across multiple domains of emergent and early literacy, to include phonological awareness, alphabet knowledge, print awareness, narrative, and vocabulary. Specific approaches to assessing and monitoring growth in “high priority” areas of literacy are provided. This handbook also provides guidance for evaluating children’s learning environments, including supports with the home and classroom.