Section I: Topics in childhood language disorders. Models of child language disorders -- Evaluation and assessment -- Principles of intervention -- Special consideration for special populations -- Developmental language disorders in a pluralistic society -- Section II: From birth to Brown's Stage V. Assessment and intervention in the prelinguistic period -- Assessment and intervention for emerging language -- Assessment of developing language -- Intervention for developing language -- Section III: Working with language learning disabilities. Language, reading, and learning in school: what the speech-language pathologist needs to know -- Assessing students' language for learning -- Intervening at the language-for-learning stage -- Assessing advanced language -- Intervention for advanced language.