Her appointment as a Distinguished University Professor represents special recognition based on exemplary teaching, research, scholarship and professional service. Dr. Kaderavek is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and has been a Fulbright Scholar. 

Dr. Joan Kaderavek is a frequent presenter and author in the area of language development, early literacy, and teacher-child interactions. She has over 60 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals. Her work has been published in Journal of Speech-Language Hearing Research, Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, and Early Childhood Research Quarterly. Dr. Kaderavek has been a co-investigator in multi-million dollar grant projects funded by the U.S. Department of Education and the National Science Foundation. Her research has investigated the effects of a teacher-provided book reading intervention on children’s literacy development; current research focuses on teacher-child and child-child discourse in early childhood classrooms during science inquiry lessons.

Dr. Kaderavek is involved nationally and internationally in professional service. She has been an Associate Editor for Language, Speech, and Hearing in the Schools.  She has worked internationally in training teachers and speech-language pathologists.

Chapter 1

The Foundations of Language and Clinical Practice

Chapter 2

Language Theory and the Communication Subdomains

Chapter 3

Assessment of Language Disorders

Chapter 4

Decision Making in Assessment and Intervention

Chapter 5

Principles of Intervention

Chapter 6

Children with Specific Language Impairment

Chapter 7

Children with Hearing Loss

Chapter 8

Children with Intellectual Disability

Chapter 9

Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Chapter 10

Early Literacy, Reading, and Writing for School-Age Children

Chapter 11

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) and Children with Language Disorders

Appendix A

A Tutorial: The Meaning of Standard Scores

Appendix B

T-Unit Analysis

Appendix C

Report Writing

Appendix D

Language Sample Analysis Worksheet

Glossary

References

Index

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