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Profiling Linguistic Disability Profiling Linguistic Disability Second edition David Crystal Honorary Professorial Fellow University College of North Wales Bangor SINGULAR PUBLISHING GROUP, INC. SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA © David Crystal 1992 First published 1982 by Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd Reprinted 1989 by Whurr Publishers Ltd Second edition 1992 published by Whurr Publishers Ltd 19b Compton Terrace, London Nt 2UN, UK Published and distributed in the United States and Canada by SINGULAR PUBLlSIIING GROUP, INC. 4284 415t Street San Diego, California 92105, USA All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of Whurr Publishers Ltd. This publication is sold subject to the conditions that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent. resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed upon any subsequent purchaser. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Crystal, David, 1941- Profiling linguistic disability I David Crystal. 2nd ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-56593-053-3 1. Language disorders in children-Diagnosis. 2. Speech disorders in children-Diagnosis. I. Title. [DNLM: L Language Disorders--diagnosis. 2. Language Disorders -therapy. 3. Speech Disorders--diagnosis. 4. Speech Disorders- -therapy. WM 475 c957pl RJ498.L35C79 1992 618.92'855075---0c20 DNLMIDLC 92-3712 for Library of Congress CIP ISBN 1-56593-053-3 Typeset by Huron Graphics, Ann Arbor, USA Corrections to second edition by J&L Composition Ltd, Filey, North Yorkshire, UK Printed and bound in the UK by Athenaeum Press Ltd, Newcastle upon Tyne Contents Preface to second edition v Preface to first edition vii 1 Linguistic profiles 1 2 LARSP (language assessment, remediation and screening procedure) 14 3 PROPH (profile of phonology) 54 4 PROP (prosody profile) 114 5 PRISM (profile in semantics) 139 6 Putting profiles into practice 214 Bibliographical notes 224 Index 228 ix Preface to the second edition For this new edition, I have corrected a couple of dozen irritating errors which crept through into the original printing, updated references, and taken the opportunity to add a new chapter which carries through the use of profiling techniques into the teaching situation. Copies of the various profile charts, A4 size, continue to be available from PO Box 5, Holyhead, Gwynedd LL65 1RG, UK. David Crystal Holyhead, October 1991 v Preface to the first edition In this book, 1 have brought together the main techniques which I use in the assessment and remediation of language disability. These techniques have been developed over quite a long period of time. The first was the method of grammatical investigation known as LARSP, which underwent its trials between 1970 and 1975, and was finally published in 1976, under the title of The grammatical analysis of language disability (co-authored by my Univer sity of Reading colleagues, Paul Fletcher and Michael Garman). During that year, I began to write up the results of research into prosodic development, and the first draft of a prosody profile was constructed shortly after. It has taken several years to give this profile an adequate clinical trial, due mainly to the paucity of patients with prosodic disability in Reading at anyone time. In 1978 Paul Fletcher and 1 produced a first draft of a segmental phonological profile, and this went through some 20 versions before it achieved the final form presented here. There has. in this case, been no shortage of patients with phonological problems on whom to tryout the procedure. Finally. the pressing need for a semantic procedure 'has become more insistent especially in relation to certain kinds of adult aphasia (where LARSP has proved of limited value) and to the restricted vocabulary ranges of many children. I am not happy with the present form of the semantic profile, but it has proved better than nothing. in attempting to make sense of the complex field of semantic disability. It is therefore presented here. despite its shortcomings. in the hope that it will be of some help to others involved in this area. The slow process of revision will doubtless affect all of these projects one day. Already, we have benefited from the criticisms made of LARSP. as it has come to be used routinely in various parts of the world. The account of this procedure in the present book. therefore, is as up-to-date as I can make it, being the first full account of the revised (1981) chart. Naturally. I we Icome comments concerning the use of the other procedures too, knowing very well that progress will come only as a result of the sharing of ideas about these matters. I have restricted this book to an expository account of the techniques themselves, along with an illustration of their use from several of the patients who have attended my special assessment clinic at the University of Reading in recent years. The book does not provide a discussion of the theoretical reasoning which led to the development of a clinical linguistic approach. nor of the various theoretical issues which underlie the analysis of phonological. grammatical and semantic disability. I have written of such things elsewhere (Clinical linguistics, Vienna and New York: Springer 1981), and there was no vu
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