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Gall
First to describe children with poor understanding and use of speech and to differentiate them from those with intellectual disability (ID). -
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Expanding and Refining
Gall identified what was thought to be similar to the aphasia's these neurologists were studying in adults. Language learning and disorders, and neurologists dominated this field. Attention was focused on the physiological side of language. -
Broca
Many great discoveries made about the brain and language. Broca's area in Frontal Lobe. -
Wernicke
Shortly after Broca, Wernicke discovered language comprehension and formulation area in Temporal Lobe. -
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Advances in Techniques for Deaf Individuals
Several educators of the Deaf developed techniques for teaching language to those who could not speak or hear. Ewing (1930), McGinnis, Kleffner, and Goldstein (1956), Myklebust (1954, 1971) -
Samuel T. Orton
Known as father of modern practice of child language disorders. -
Gesell and Amatruda
Pioneers in developmetal pediatrics, developed innovative techniques for evaluating language development and recognized the condition the deemed "infantile aphasia." -
Chomsky
Chomsky's theory of transformative grammar makes an explosion in the SLP and linguistic communities, and leads to a massive amount of research being done on child language acquisition. -
Morley
Applied information on normal language development to treating children with language disorders. First to push the role of the SLP as a speech therapist. -
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Growth
SLP has grown into many different branches and fields of expertise, some include child language, adult disorders, TBI, swallowing therapy, DLD, ect. -
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Benton
Provides fullest descriptions of children of DLD, makes it separate from other syndromes. -
McGinnis
Develops "association method" for teaching language to "aphasic" children. -
Language Disorder
Aram and Nation (1982) deal with Language Development and Disorder outside of larger syndrome such as Deafness, ect.
