Language development: Individual differences in a social context

The following book has just been published: 

Law, J., Reilly, S., & McKean, C. (Eds.) (2022). Language development: Individual differences in a social context. Cambridge University Press. 

The book is available here https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/psycholinguistics-and-neurolinguistics/language-development-individual-differences-social-context?format=HB&isbn=9781108494090 

We wrote Chapter 15. Communication, Participation and Cohort Studies -- Sharynne McLeod, Jane McCormack, and Helen L. Blake

The editors sent the following email today: 

Thank you for your excellent contributions and for your patience with a longer than expected gestation. It is of course a bittersweet moment as this book was James’ vision and we have been working together for more than 3 years to bring it to publication. Cristina and I wrote a tribute to him acknowledging this and his wider contribution to the field which appears at the start of the book and which can be accessed here We hope you will be as pleased as we are with the excellent contributions that make it a wonderful resource for so many. James would be proud. - Sheena and Cristina

 Their tribute to James Law can be accessed here: https://assets.cambridge.org/97811084/94090/frontmatter/9781108494090_frontmatter.pdf

James Law's contributions to IJLCD

A virtual issue of all of James Law's publications to IJLCD has just been published. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1111/(ISSN)1460-6984.James-Law-Tribute 

It contains 29 articles:

1. Adams, C., Lockton, E., Freed, J., Gaile, J., Earl, G., McBean, K., Nash, M., Green, J., Vail, A., & Law, J. (2012). The Social Communication Intervention Project: a randomized controlled trial of the effectiveness of speech and language therapy for school-age children who have pragmatic and social communication problems with or without autism spectrum disorder. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 47(3), 233-244. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-6984.2011.00146.x 
2. Beecham, J., Law, J., Zeng, B., & Lindsay, G. (2012). Costing children's speech, language and communication interventions. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 47(5), 477-486. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-6984.2012.00157.x 
3. Buckeridge, K., Clarke, C., & Sellers, D. (2020). Adolescents’ experiences of communication following acquired brain injury. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 55(1), 97-109. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12506 
4. Cronin, P., Reeve, R., McCabe, P., Viney, R., & Goodall, S. (2020). Academic achievement and productivity losses associated with speech, language and communication needs. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 55(5), 734-750. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12558 
5. De Barbieri, Z., Fernández, M. A., Newbury, D. F., & Villanueva, P. (2018). Family aggregation of language impairment in an isolated Chilean population from Robinson Crusoe Island. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 53(3), 643-655. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12377 
6. Dockrell, J., Lindsay, G., Roulstone, S., & Law, J. (2014). Supporting children with speech, language and communication needs: an overview of the results of the Better Communication Research Programme. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 49(5), 543-557. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12089 
7. Ellis Weismer, S., Tomblin, J. B., Durkin, M. S., Bolt, D., & Palta, M. (2021). A preliminary epidemiologic study of social (pragmatic) communication disorder in the context of developmental language disorder. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 56(6), 1235-1248. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12664 
8. Gallagher, A. L., & Chiat, S. (2009). Evaluation of speech and language therapy interventions for pre-school children with specific language impairment: a comparison of outcomes following specialist intensive, nursery-based and no intervention. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 44(5), 616-638. https://doi.org/10.1080/13682820802276658 
9. Hopkins, T., Clegg, J., & Stackhouse, J. (2018). Examining the association between language, expository discourse and offending behaviour: an investigation of direction, strength and independence. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 53(1), 113-129. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12330 
10. Kouba Hreich, E., Moitel Messarra, C., Martinez-Perez, T., Richa, S., & Maillart, C. (2020). Supporting language development in Lebanese preschools: SLT and pre-KT practice and perception of roles. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 55(6), 988-1004. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12576 
11. Law, J. (1995). Efficacy of speech and language therapy with children. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 30(S1), 484-484. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-6984.1995.tb01738.x 
12. Law, J. (1997). Evaluating intervention for language impaired children: A review of the literature. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 32(2s), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-6984.1997.tb01621.x 
13. Law, J., Clegg, J., Rush, R., Roulstone, S., & Peters, T. J. (2019). Association of proximal elements of social disadvantage with children's language development at 2 years: an analysis of data from the Children in Focus (CiF) sample from the ALSPAC birth cohort. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 54(3), 362-376. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12442 
14. Law, J., Dornstauder, M., Charlton, J., & Gréaux, M. (2021). Tele-practice for children and young people with communication disabilities: Employing the COM-B model to review the intervention literature and inform guidance for practitioners. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 56(2), 415-434. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12592 
15. Law, J., Huby, G., Irving, A.-M., Pringle, A.-M., Conochie, D., Haworth, C., & Burston, A. (2010). Reconciling the perspective of practitioner and service user: findings from The Aphasia in Scotland study. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 45(5), 551-560. https://doi.org/10.3109/13682820903308509 
16. Law, J., McBean, K., & Rush, R. (2011). Communication skills in a population of primary school-aged children raised in an area of pronounced social disadvantage. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 46(6), 657-664. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-6984.2011.00036.x 
17. Law, J., Reilly, S., & Snow, P. C. (2013). Child speech, language and communication need re-examined in a public health context: a new direction for the speech and language therapy profession. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 48(5), 486-496. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12027 
18. Law, J., & Riches, N. (2015). The Language Myth: Why Language is Not an Instinct Edited by Vyvyan Evans (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014) [Pp. 304.] ISBN 978-1-107-61975-3. £45.00 (hbk). £18.00 (pbk). International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 50(5), 719-719. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12168 
19. Law, J., Zeng, B., Lindsay, G., & Beecham, J. (2012). Cost-effectiveness of interventions for children with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN): a review using the Drummond and Jefferson (1996) ‘Referee's Checklist’. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 47(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-6984.2011.00084.x 
20. Levickis, P., McKean, C., Wiles, A., & Law, J. (2020). Expectations and experiences of parents taking part in parent–child interaction programmes to promote child language: a qualitative interview study. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 55(4), 603-617. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12543 
21. Lindsay, G., Dockrell, J., Desforges, M., Law, J., & Peacey, N. (2010). Meeting the needs of children and young people with speech, language and communication difficulties. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 45(4), 448-460. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3109/13682820903165693 
22. Lindsay, G., Soloff, N., Law, J., Band, S., Peacey, N., Gascoigne, M., & Radford, J. (2002). Speech and language therapy services to education in England and Wales. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 37(3), 273-288. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/13682820210137204 
23. Mackie, L., & Law, J. (2010). Pragmatic language and the child with emotional/behavioural difficulties (EBD): a pilot study exploring the interaction between behaviour and communication disability. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 45(4), 397-410. https://doi.org/10.3109/13682820903105137 
24. McKean, C., Law, J., Laing, K., Cockerill, M., Allon-Smith, J., McCartney, E., & Forbes, J. (2017). A qualitative case study in the social capital of co-professional collaborative co-practice for children with speech, language and communication needs. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 52(4), 514-527. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12296 
25. Reilly, S., Tomblin, B., Law, J., McKean, C., Mensah, F. K., Morgan, A., Goldfeld, S., Nicholson, J. M., & Wake, M. (2014). Specific language impairment: a convenient label for whom? International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 49(4), 416-451. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12102 
26. Smith, J., Levickis, P., Neilson, R., Mensah, F., Goldfeld, S., & Bryson, H. (2021). Prevalence of language and pre-literacy difficulties in an Australian cohort of 5-year-old children experiencing adversity. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 56(2), 389-401. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12611 
27. Snow, P. C., Sanger, D. D., Caire, L. M., Eadie, P. A., & Dinslage, T. (2015). Improving communication outcomes for young offenders: a proposed response to intervention framework. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 50(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12117 
28.  Wren, Y., Pagnamenta, E., Peters, T. J., Emond, A., Northstone, K., Miller, L. L., & Roulstone, S. (2021). Educational outcomes associated with persistent speech disorder. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 56(2), 299-312. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12599 
29. Zwitserlood, R., Wijnen, F., van Weerdenburg, M., & Verhoeven, L. (2015). ‘MetaTaal’: enhancing complex syntax in children with specific language impairment—a metalinguistic and multimodal approach. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 50(3), 273-297. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12131