Handbook of Pragmatic Language Disorders

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Biographical notes.- Chapter 1: Pragmatic disorders in the 21st century.- PART A: COMPLEX POPULATIONS IN CHILDHOOD.- Chapter 2: Social (pragmatic) communication disorder.- Chapter 3: Autism spectrum disorder.- Chapter 4: Fragile X syndrome.- Chapter 5: Down syndrome.- Chapter 6: Williams syndrome.- Chapter 7: 22q11.2 deletion syndrome.- Chapter 8: Tourette's syndrome.- Chapter 9: Sensory loss.- Chapter 10: Selective mutism.- Chapter 11: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.- PART B: COMPLEX POPULATIONS IN ADULTHOOD.- Chapter 12: Right-hemisphere language disorder.- Chapter 13: Psychiatric disorders.- Chapter 14: Dementia of the Alzheimer type.- Chapter 15: Parkinson's disease.- Chapter 16: Multiple sclerosis.- Chapter 17: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.- Chapter 18: Huntington's disease.- Chapter 19: Traumatic brain injury.- PART C: UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS.- Chapter 20: Infants and children adopted internationally.-  Chapter 21: Infants and children exposed to HIV and substance abuse.- Chapter 22: Maltreated and traumatized children and young people.- Chapter 23: African American children and adolescents.- Chapter 24: Children and young people with written language disorders.- Chapter 25: Children, young people and adults who use AAC.- Chapter 26: Adults in the prison population.- Index.

Louise Cummings is Professor in the Department of English and Communication and Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Humanities at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She teaches and conducts research in pragmatics, clinical linguistics and public health. Publications in these areas include Language and Dementia (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Fallacies in Medicine and Health (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), Reasoning and Public Health (Springer, 2015), and Pragmatic Disorders (Springer, 2014).