introduction and critiques of book speech and language development in Farsi speaking children

Document Type : Short Article

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M.A in Psychology of Exceptional Children, Research Institute for Exceptional Children

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The aim of this paper is introduction for the book named “Speech and language development in Farsi speaking children” authored by Nahid Jalilehvand, and a brief critiques on it. This book is a report of a case study that has done about two children, one boy and one girl 12-60 months. Researcher has observed this two children and has recorded their linguistic and speech features and entitled these findings as development of language and speech of all Farsi speaking children. The form of book is good and just some editions in writing and format of pages is needed. Methodology of research is a case that seem need some corrections. Internal and external reliability for case study is a factor that has considered have some weakness. Generalization of case study is a dangerous point for it. This study and its findings are about just two children not all Farsi speaking children. The findings of this study must be added another studies so we can receive to process of language and speech development in Farsi speaking children. So the checklist that is in end of book for evaluating speech of children is not suitable and has not reliability and validity.

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