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Early Literacy in Action

The Language-Focused Curriculum for Preschool

Beschreibung

Helps preschool teachers and SLPs implement a language-focused curriculum to enhance language skills in early childhood through lesson plans, activities, and ideas for the classroom. This book contains chapters about the general philosophy of the program, curriculum structure, and language intervention.

Autor

> Laura M. Justice, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor of Educational Psychology at The Ohio State University. Dr. Justice is also Executive Director of the Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy as well as the Schoenbaum Family Center. A certified speech-language pathologist, much of her research focuses on identifying strategies to improve the language skills of young children, including those with disabilities. Dr. Rice received her doctoral degree from the University of Kansas, where she is University Distinguished Professor of Speech-Language-Hearing and Director of the Child Language Doctoral Program and the Merrill Advanced Studies Center. She has held Visiting Scientist appointments at the Center for Cognitive Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has extensive research and clinical experience with children with specific language impairment (SLI). Early in her career she worked as a speech-language pathologist in public schools. In collaboration with Kim A. Wilcox, she established the demonstration Language Acquisition Preschool (LAP) at the University of Kansas. Her current research addresses several aspects of the condition of SLI: social and academic consequences, morphology, lexical learning, and preschool language intervention. Her publications include the edited volumes The Teachability of Language and Toward a Genetics of Language, as well as numerous journal articles and invited chapters.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brookes Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 285mm x 212mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 1642g
• ISBN-13: 9781557669223
• ISBN-10: 1557669228
• Artikelnr.: 22791291