Children without language: from dysphasia to autism
Laurent Danon-Boileau
- New York : OUP, 2006.
- ix, 268 p. HB
Part I Which Children Are We Talking About? 1. Communication Disorders and Language Disorders: Rough Definitions 13 2. Communication Disorder and Its Signs 35 3. Engagement with Language 52 Part II Principles of Therapy 4. Joint Attention 71 5. From Communication to Language 92 Part III Some Cases 6. Ahlem, or Painful Transparency 113 7. Lanny, or the Silence of the Mad Child 122 8. Louis, or Shared Monologue 134 9. Simon and the Magic Dictation 146 10. Charles, or Paradoxical Communication 162 Part IV Theoretical Foundations 11. . Language and Symbolization 173 12. From Sense to Sound and Back Again 185 13. Cognitive Implications 200 14. Why Do Some Children Not Communicate? 213