Frontmatter -- Preface to the Handbooks of Applied Linguistics Series -- Table of contents -- Introduction to the Handbook of Communication Disorders: Theoretical, Empirical, and Applied Linguistic Perspectives -- I Linguistic acquisition Section 1: Phonology and speech -- 1. The role of hearing in speech and language acquisition and processing -- 2. Speech perception and auditory development in infants with and without hearing loss -- 3 Developing phonology -- I Linguistic acquisition Section 2: Lexical knowledge -- 4 Early lexicon and the development that precedes and follows it - A developmental view to early lexicon -- 5 .Typical and atypical lexical development -- 6. Figurative language acquisition and development -- 7. Figurative language development: Implications for assessment and clinical practice -- 8 .Spoken word production: Processes and potential breakdown -- I Linguistic acquisition Section 3: Grammatical constructions -- 9. Morphological development -- 10. Acquisition of an agglutinative language under adverse neonatal conditions -- 11. Later morpho-lexical acquisition -- 12. Development of complex syntax: From early clause-combining to text-embedded syntactic packaging -- II Oral and written communication Section 4: Communication and discourse -- 13. Theory of mind and communication: Developmental perspectives -- 14. Socio-pragmatic skills underlying language development: Boundaries between typical and atypical development -- 15. Learning conversational skills and learning from conversation -- 16. Narrative Discourse: Developmental Perspectives -- 17. Narrative interventions for children with language disorders: A review of practices and findings -- 18. Helping language learning in inclusive classrooms -- II Oral and written communication Section 5: Linguistic literacy -- 19. What is literacy? And what is a literate disability? -- 20. Promoting early literacy of children from low socioeconomic backgrounds in preschool and at home -- 21. Foundations for a universal model of learning to read -- 22. Acquisition of spelling: Normal and impaired/disordered populations -- 23 .The role of morphology in reading and writing -- 24. Reading comprehension: Individual differences, disorders, and underlying cognitive processes -- 25. Grammar for writing and grammar in writing -- III Environmental effects Section 6: Socio-economic status -- 26. How socioeconomic differences in early language environments shape children's language development -- 27. Cognition and language in different socioeconomic and environmental settings -- 28. Language disorder versus language difference: The impact of socio-economic status -- III Environmental effects Section 7: Multilingualism -- 29. Input, context and early child bilingualism: Implications for clinical practice -- 30. SLI in bilingual development: How do we approach assessment? -- 31. Development of vocabulary knowledge and its relationship with reading comprehension among emergent bilingual children: An overview -- 32. Factors affecting second language acquisition: Successes and nonsuccesses -- IV. Language and communication disorders Section 8: Developmental and neurological disorders -- 33 .The changing profile of Specific Language Impairment -- 34. Neuroplasticity and development: Discourse in children with perinatal stroke and children with language impairment -- 35 .Types of developmental dyslexia -- 36. Implicit learning in developmental dyslexia as demonstrated by the Serial Reaction Time (SRT) and the Artificial Grammar Learning (AGL) tasks -- 37. Speech and language in congenitally deaf children with a cochlear implant -- 38. Parental involvement in early intervention for children with hearing loss -- 39. Communication, language, and speech in young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) -- 40. Language in people with Williams syndrome -- 41. Making language accessible for people with cognitive disabilities: Intellectual disability as a test case -- IV Language and communication disorders Section 9: Disorders in aging -- 42. Brain and language in healthy aging -- 43. Language impairments in acquired aphasia: Features and frameworks -- 44 .Language in neurodegenerative diseases -- Index