1st Edition
Uncommon Understanding (Classic Edition) Development and disorders of language comprehension in children
Biography
Dorothy Bishop is Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology and a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow at the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford.
Praise for the 1st Edition:
Uncommon Understanding is a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of research and theory within the important field of children's language comprehension and disorders. Dr Bishop has admirably met the challenge of bringing together and critically but even-handedly evaluating what is undoubtedly a vast body of complex, and at times disparate and even conflicting, knowledge and research. - Valerie Muter, Great Ormond Street Hospital in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
This is an excellent book. Everyone who has an interest in understanding language development should read this book and many readers will want to keep a copy of the book on their shelf for reference. Students of language disorders will find here a brilliant summary of the issues and analyses that are shaping their field. Students of normal development can use this book as a way of gaining a better understanding of the ways in which the intricate structure of language learning can become unbraided. - Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie Mellon University in Developmental Review
This is an absolutely excellent book! In a well-argued review, Bishop provides an admirably clear and incisive account of specific language impairment, displaying a remarkable blend of scholarship and clinical insight. In my view, the book cannot be faulted and will become a classic in the field of developmental language disorders." - Margaret J. Snowling, University of York, UK
This book is excellently written. Dorothy Bishop manages to combine discussing pertinent and controversial theoretical accounts of SLI with giving a clear presentation of empirical results and an introduction to basic terms of linguistic theory and psychological testing. The book is suited to researchers, students, teachers, and practitioners alike. - Gisela Szagun, University Oldenburg, in International Journal of Behavioral Development
