Languages in Therapy and Education

Clinical Linguistics

Małgorzata Rocławska-Daniluk, Aleksandra Wisniewska

• Publisher: V&R Unipress
• Year: 2025
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783847019121
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

This interdisciplinary volume is dedicated to various areas of language acquisition and speech production that are directly relevant to diagnosis and treatment of auditory processing and speech disorders such as hearing problems, lisping, stuttering, consonant clusters and APD affecting language learning and social interactions. The contributors focus on key questions about the causes of diagnostic difficulties of impaired speech fluency, trace the mechanisms of voice emission, analyse the relationship between auditory perception and sound production and stress the importance of accurate diagnosis and therapy choices. They present the results of their survey-based research in general didactics, psychology, medicine and speech therapy.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• Introduction
• Maria Faściszewska (University of Gdańsk) / Katarzyna Ita Bieńkowska (The Maria Grzegorzewska University, Warsaw): Foreign language learning difficulties in children at risk of auditory processing disorder: A parent and teacher perspective
• Diagnosis and screening of auditory processing disorders
• Auditory processing disorders and the process of language learning
• Methods
• Research problems
• Data collection and analysis
• The Research Group
• Results
• Conclusions and discussion
• Bibliography
• Barbara Maciejewska (Poznań University of Medical Sciences) / Małgorzata Rocławska-Daniluk (University of Gdańsk): Problematic issues in the differential diagnosis of APD and mild hearing loss in children from a linguistic and audiological perspective
• Introduction
• Research methodology – main objectives and diagnostic problems
• Analysis of research material – results of diagnosis of children with suspected APD
• Selected case studies illustrating characteristic problems
• Case study of a boy aged 12 (diagnosis no. 1 in Table 1.) diagnosed with APD
• Case study of a girl aged 10 years (diagnosis no. 2 in Table 1.) – diagnosed with mild sensorineural cochlear hearing loss
• Case study of a boy aged 8 (diagnosis no. 3 in Table 1)
• Discussion and conclusion
• Bibliography
• Maria Faściszewska (University of Gdańsk) / Edyta Orłowska (University of Gdańsk) / Agnieszka Jarzyńska (The Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw): The level of knowledge about stuttering in children among preschool teachers in Poland and proposals for strategies to support the stuttering child in the educational environment
• Introduction
• Research on stuttering conducted among teachers
• Methods
• Research problems
• The Research Group
• Results
• Does the level of teachers’ knowledge differ depending on where they live?
• Does the level of teachers’ knowledge of the causes of stuttering vary according to the sources of information?
• According to teachers, what are the possible causes of stuttering in a child?
• According to teachers, what is the relationship between stuttering and the gender of the child?
• According to teachers, what are the symptoms of stuttering in a preschool child?
• What do teachers think are the child’s reactions to stuttering?
• Discussion
• Bibliography
• Ewa Binkuńska (University of Gdańsk) / Magdalena Zając (Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz): Disorders of breathing, phonation and prosody in people with cardiovascular disease
• Introduction
• Types of respiratory disorders in the context of disease
• Phonation and its disorders in the context of cardiovascular disease
• Prosody and its disorders in the context of cardiovascular disease
• Methodological assumptions
• Phonation, prosody and breathing disorders in people with cardiovascular disease. Study findings
• Conclusions
• Bibliography
• Ewa Binkuńska (University of Gdańsk): Rate of consonant clusters acquisition depending on their position in the word
• Introduction
• Assumptions of research methodology
• Rate of acquisition of consonant cluster types according to the criterion of place of articulation
• Rate of acquisition of consonant clusters based on selected examples of consonantal diads and triads
• Conclusions
• Bibliography