This book should be of interest to speech and language therapists; educational psychologists, teachers.

A retrospective look at clinical pragmatics, T.M. Gallagher; Language and social skills: implications for clinical assessment and intervention with school-age children, T.M. Gallagher; Everyday events: the role of language assessment and intervention, J. Felson Duchan; Using ethnography to bring children's communicative and cultural worlds into focus, M.B. Crago and E.B. Cole; A functionalist approach to language and its implications for assessment and intervention, E. Bates, D. Thal and B. MacWhinney; Pragmatic characteristics of the child with specific language impairment: an interactionist perspective, H.K. Craig; Discourse: a means of understanding normal and disordered language, M. Mentis and S.A. Thompson; Experimental realism: clinical implications, J. Murna; Profiling pragmatic abilities in the emerging language of young children, A.M. Wetherby; A discourse approach to language disorders: investigating complex sentence production, E. Skarakis-Doyle and M. Mentis; Reciprocal book reading: a discourse-based intervention strategy for the child with atypical language development, D. Kirchner; Facilitating grammatical development: The contribution of pragmatics, L.B. Leonard and M.E. Fey.