MITECS Entry on Language Impairment
Description of The Concise Encyclopedia of Language Pathology
Excerpt from chapter on the brain Introduction to Psycholinguistics (Longman,1993)
Excerpt from chapter on sign language in Introduction to Psycholinguistics (Longman,1993)
Zooming in on Dyslexia -- 1996 Time article
New York Times article on Aphasia
Story about aphasia from NY Times
Brocca's Aphasia and American Sign Language --question and answer from the Linguist List
Some abstracts form the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.
Statement of the Clinical Brain Disorders Branch of the NIH
Cutting out stuttering --article from New Scientist
Article on the possibility of a gene for stuttering
What is Landau-Kleffner syndrome?
Language outcome following [surgery] for
Landau–Kleffner syndrome
from the journal Brain
Parkinson's and Huntington's Diseases and Tourette's
Syndrome
from the Australina Broadcasting Corporation
What Makes Tics Tick? Clues Found in Tourette Twins' Caudates
What is known about Tourette's syndrome?--from Scientific American
Wild Chidren -Chapter from Introduction to Psycholinguistics (Longman, 1993)
"Chelsea" --an exchange between Dr. Peter Glusker and myself about 'Chelsea,' another case involving language deprivation.
some miscellaneous abstracts on language disorders
Benji-- a case of Auditory Processing Deficit
Late Bloomer, article --A boy with one hemisphere upsets old ideas on speech acquisition
Study in delayed language acquisition in twins
E-mail exchange with Dennis Drayna --on stuttering and recent research.
On the genetic and brain bases of developmental speech and language disorders. Editorial from the Journal, Brain.
http://www.mult-sclerosis.org/dysarthria.html
This links to a good website on the speech problems termed "Dysarthria,"
that is, those problems caused by the muscles involved with speaking or
the nerves controlling them. This condition is often associated with multiple
sclerosis.