Speech and Language Challenges: The Ultimate Teen Guide

ISBN-13: 9780810887916 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 244 str.

Marlene Targ Brill

Opis

More than 1.1 million students ages 3-21 receive school services for speech and language problems. Stuttering alone accounts for 3 million people of all ages in the United States and 67 million people worldwide. More than 5 million Americans live with a disability from brain injury, and this usually includes communication difficulties. More than 649,000 teens ages 14 to 17 speak a language other than English at home and have difficulty communicating in English at school. Their numbers continue to grow with more students accessing speech and language assistance. This book will address the speech issues that affect all people, but specifically focus on the concerns of young adults not just the how and whys of each issue, but how to cope with them. It will include teen interviews/stories, expert quotes, history of different conditions, definitions of technical terms necessary for understanding the conditions, media concerning speech problems (such as The King s Speech), and short biographies of well-known people who have dealt with and/or overcome these same issues."