Gunter (communicative disorders, Iowa State U.-Ames) and Koenig (communicative disorders, West Chester U. of Pennsylvania) explain communication concepts, theories, development, and disorders and clinical service delivery for children with these disorders, for students and clinical providers working with them. They discuss normal and non-normal development of linguistic skills, classification systems and their use in service delivery, patterns of language delays and disorders, language differences that are not problematic, practice standards, and evaluation and intervention. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)