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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What You Should Know and How to Get Help | |
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| Speech, Language, and Listening: How They Develop | |
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| What Is Speech? | |
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| What Is Language? | |
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| What Is Listening? | |
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| How Do Children Learn to Communicate? | |
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| Speech, Language, and Listening Milestones | |
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| Does Your Child Need Help? | |
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| The Warning Signs | |
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| When to Get Help | |
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| Warning Signs to Look For | |
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| Having Your Child Evaluated | |
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| Who to See | |
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| Where to Go | |
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| The Evaluation | |
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| Special Considerations: Testing Infants and Preschoolers | |
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| After the Evaluation: Understanding Report Jargon and the IEP | |
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| The Numbers Used to Measure Performance | |
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| What Happens after the Evaluation? | |
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| Options for Speech and Language Therapy | |
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| Speech, Language, and Listening | |
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| Problems | |
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| Understanding Speech Problems | |
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| Stuttering | |
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| Common Pronunciation Problems | |
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| Common Voice Problems | |
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| Understanding Language Problems | |
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| Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers with Delayed Speech or Language | |
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| When Learning New Words Comes Slowly: Vocabulary Problems | |
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| The "Him Not Talkin' Right" Child: Morophological and Syntax Problems | |
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| The "Whatchamacallit, um, Thing Over There" Child: A Word Retrieval Problem | |
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| The "I Don't Know How to Explain It" Child: Sequencing, Referential, and Divergent Language Problems | |
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| Understanding Listening Problems | |
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| The "What? Did You Say Something?" Child: A Central Auditory Processing Problem | |
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| The "I Forgot What You Said" Child: An Auditory Memory Problem | |
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| The "I Don't Understand What I'm Supposed to Do" Child: A Language Processing Problem | |
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| Causes and Conditions | |
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| Common Causes of Speech, Language, and Listening Problems | |
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| Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Hearing Impairment, and Other Special Conditions | |
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| Resources | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |