Communication Disorders in Turkish

Edited by Prof. Seyhun Topbaş, Prof. Mehmet Yavaş

Publication date:

30 April 2010

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781847692467

This volume is the first to deal with Turkish communicative development and disorders, reflecting the use of Turkish by a sizeable population in multilingual settings in Europe, USA, and Australia. In addition to Speech-language Pathologists, the book will be of interest to professionals from related fields such as clinical linguistics, psychology, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, audiology, and special education. This book presents a compendium of information about the profession of speech-language pathology, cultural differences, assessment materials and research done in communication disorders in Turkey. It also covers acquisition and disorders in multilingual contexts where there is significant Turkish immigration.

PART I Prologue

Chapter 1: A Closer Look at the Developing Profession of Speech and Language Pathology - Seyhun Topbaş

Chapter 2: The Sound Inventory of Turkish: Consonants and Vowels - Handan Kopkallı-Yavuz

Chapter 3: Some Structural Characteristics of Turkish - Mehmet Yavaş

PART II Communication Development and Disorders in Monolingual Settings

Chapter 4: Normal Language Development in Turkish - Ayhan Aksu-Koç

Chapter 5: MLU as a Tool for Morphological Assessment in Turkish Children - Pınar Ege

Chapter 6: Turkish SALT: Computer Assisted Language Sample Analysis - Funda Acarlar and Judith Johnston

Chapter 7: Specific Language Impairment in Turkish: Adapting the TELD-3 as a First Step in Measuring Language Impairments - Seyhun Topbaş

Chapter 8: Speech Characteristics of Hearing Impaired Turkish Children - Ümran Tüfekçioğlu

Chapter 9: Language Characteristics of Hearing Impaired Turkish Children - Ümran Tüfekçioğlu

Chapter 10: Characteristics of Aphasia in Turkish - İlknur Maviş

Chapter 11: Semantic Relatedness Judgments in Normal Turkish-English Bilinguals - İlknur Maviş and Swathi Kiran

PART III Communication Disorders in Multilingual Settings

Chapter 12: Aspects of Acquisition and Disorders in Turkish-Dutch Bilingual Children - Kutlay Yağmur and Elma Nap-Koff

Chapter 13: Language Impairment in Turkish-Dutch Bilingual Children - Jan de Jong, Nazife Çavuş and Anne Baker

Chapter 14: Measuring the Language Abilities of Turkish-English Bilingual Children Using TELD-3-T - Theodoros Marinis and Duygu Özge

Chapter 15: Aspects of Language Acquisition and Disorders in Turkish-French Bilingual Children - Mehmet Ali Akıncı and Nathalie Decool-Mercier

Chapter 16: Specific Language Impairment in Turkish-German Bilingual Children: Aspects of Assessment and Outcome - Solveig Chilla and Ezel Babür

Communication Disorders in Turkish is the most comprehensive overview of this topic ever written. Each chapter author has skillfully translated research to guide clinical practice. Speech-language pathologists and audiologists within Turkey, and in the many countries where Turkish people live, will find the breadth and depth of information to be impressive.