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If £5 topups aren't allowed, SIMs shouldn't expire after 6 months.
I'm not sure if the solution that I'm going to propose anywhere goes about solving this problem but is it possible to topup £10 and then for gg to automatically give you a £5 cashback through money transaction sites such as Moneygram, Paypal and Western Union.
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I think the initial £10 topup to register should of course stay, but.....there are a lot of low income people out there (who are currently on other networks) who may be persuaded to join giffgaff if £5 topups were introduced.
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That lengthy process is complete and Rexam, the former Bowater conglomerate, is now a very different beast. It has raised £794m from selling non-core assets to reduce debts after the £1.5bn acquisition two years ago of American National Can.
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The only real disappointment came in the plastic packaging business where demand dropped after 11 September as consumers cut purchases of pricey perfume and make-up, particularly in airport duty free shops. That led to customer destocking and delayed product launches. Rexam reckons, however, there will be some recovery in sales, profits and margins in the coming months.
Despite the blip, analysts were impressed and ABN Amro lifted its full-year profit forecast by 4 per cent to £269m. Investors who followed our tip a year ago to buy Rexam shares – down 26p to 437.25p yesterday – have made a tidy profit of roughly £1 a share, but there should be more to come. The shares are on a forward price-earnings ratio of just 11, and are worth buying.
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The Holiday Place welcomed a representative from Escape Marketing last Friday who came to our office to give out a series of training sessions in which our travel experts were able to catch up with the group's latest resort and hotel developments, as well as receive an in-depth overview on each of the properties, with details about the most recent renovation works, the latest additions, facilities and special offers. A valuable afternoon full of handy information and tips that we can then pass on to our holidaymakers.
Last Friday, the lovely Lisa Jones from Escape Marketing came to The Holiday Place's headquarters in North London to give everyone in our team an update on the Caribbean hotel properties her company manages and promotes.
We got treated to a few afternoon training sessions where we learnt more about the Flamboyant Hotel & Villas in Grenada, the Halcyon Palm Barbados, the Butterfly Beach Hotel in Barbados, the Bougainvillea Beach Resort in Barbados and the recently opened Sugar Bay Barbados, which started welcoming guests last month.
Escape Marketing manages four properties in Barbados and one in Grenada, with most of these consisting of charming beach-facing resorts that offer incredible value for money and have something for every traveller; catering for families with young kids to couples and groups.
During the training session, special time was devoted to talking us through each of the properties individually, highlighting their unique appeal, what kind of holidaymaker it would suit most and all that it offered.
Things kicked off with the Bougainvillea Beach Resort, a beautiful yet unassuming beachside property on Barbados lively South Coast. We were updated on the fact that all of its rooms had recently been renovated and had all received a makeover between 2013 and 2014. We also learned that the pool had likewise recently received a facelift with the addition of new comfortable and stylish sun loungers.
It's an ideal resort for families as well with its fun Pet n' Play Park for little ones, its Kids Under 4 Eat Free policy (with those aged between 4 and 11 paying half price) and the fact that all children 15 sharing a room with parents stay free all-year-round. In fact the lead-in room category is the One-Bedroom Suite that sleeps up to four people (2 adults and 2 kids or 3 adults). The resort is also magnificently located facing a tranquil beach, ideal for paddling toddlers and making it safe for swimming children.
The Bougainvillea is predominantly a self-catering resort that offers incredible value for money, but it has the feel of a hotel due to the many facilities it offers. Guests can also book upgrade their stay to Half Board and All-Inclusive meal plans, with the option of paying for meals as you go also being there.
But the resort's main attraction (beyond its amazingly affordable room rates) is undoubtedly its outstanding location putting guests right at the heart of all the action in Barbados' coast, with the property being just 10 minutes way from the lively Gap and Oistins – the region's most happening downtown areas with frequent parties and an abundance of restaurants and bars. No doubt it's one of the most popular and gets repeatedly booked to full capacity, so clients looking for this one need to be made aware that advance booking is sometimes essential.
Bougainvillea's sister hotel is the newest of them all, which opened just last month and operates on an all-inclusive basis. The brand new Sugar Bay Barbados has a privileged location facing a protected reef, which makes the resort's beach the calmest on the southern coast – there are literally no waves here so it's incredibly safe for even the tiniest of tots. All its rooms boast a modern and chic design with a clever layout and more contemporary feel.
Likewise its 5 restaurants and bars feel modern and refreshing, with a pub just like you'd find in London. Families are well-catered to with a fully inclusive crèche available for toddlers between 4 months and 2 years, a kids club and playground for older kids and a teen club. The first child aged between 3 and 16 also stays free all-year-round while those 2 and under stay free up to maximum room occupancy. To top it all off, history and culture buffs will be happy to learn that Sugar Bay Barbados is located within the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison.
Next, we were re-introduced to the Butterfly Beach Hotel, a 3-star property that packs a powerful punch, has repeatedly won many awards (more recently The Telegraph Travel Awards with the title of Favourite Affordable Hotel in the Caribbean 2015) and has everything a holidaymaker could need. It offers the greatest value for money out of all the ones in this group and hence why it's frequently booked up to full capacity.
Regular entertainment is offered here with a weekly Manager's Rum Punch Party and guests can make use of a pool and three whirlpools. This charming property's main selling point is the direct access it offers to two stunning beaches as well as its affordability and value. Staying here means that you can minimise spending on accommodation and eat out cheaply and locally, as the hotel is perfectly located within walking distance to Oistins; a lively village famous for its Friday Fish Fry and its variety of bars and dining outlets.
The last hotel we were updated on in Barbados, was the Halcyon Palm, an even more affordable option to all the previous ones presented that comes with the only downside of not being located in first line of the beach (it's in second line) but which still offers plenty of attractive perks to seal the deal – mainly the fact that it's incredibly cheap; which also makes it quite popular and fills it up quick in peak seasons. It's just 5 minutes to the beach and has recently undergone an extensive refurbishment programme in 2014 which included completely renovated bathrooms. Its location is also enticing, sitting pretty on the parish of St James, in Barbados West Coast and putting guests within walking distance to restaurants, bars and shopping.
Last but not least is the only hotel in this group not to be found in Barbados but Grenada instead. The Flamboyant Hotel & Villas is beautifully poised on one of this coveted isle's most secluded beaches. It has a proper Caribbean feel, with Grenada being renowned as far less commercial than many other typical Caribbean destinations.
All rooms boast sweeping sea views at The Flamboyant but the hotel's biggest asset is its location, offering some of the best scuba diving in the region with its own PADI-certified, five-star diving centre (the best in the island) offering diving courses and daily excursions with all dive sites being just a short 15-minute boat ride from the hotel's beach.
The dining here is also second to none in Grenada and the hotel is famous for having the island's longest Happy Hour (from 10 a.m. to 3 a.m.). It's also favoured by wedding couples getting married on the beach and famous for arranging underwater weddings. Daily entertainment (which varies by season) is also provided at the hotel with occasional live music, karaoke nights, crab racing and rum punch reception. Undoubtedly the best hotel for a more authentic Caribbean immersion with the local way of life.
After that last hotel overview it was a wrap but Lisa didn't leave before telling us that (as if all these hotels didn't sound appealing enough and you needed yet one more excuses to get there), free Wi-Fi was also available throughout each of these resorts (except for the Halcyon).
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hmmm yep lol
Ha ha - no, I actually know 2 people who have dropped i-phones in the toilet so I'm paranoid (my last one already went through the wash courtesy of DS....). I'm never really in there long enough anyway lol (maybe I should be extending my trips to get some peace and quiet....).
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Yep.. Why is it gross? Phone sits in my hand not my bum.. I don't see why not? Phone is put down on the bench next to toilet I wash hands and pick phone up again. My toothbrush is also on that bench as well as my makeup.. Is my ensuite so don't know why not.
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Um. No. I am in the loo to do a job, not to sit and play with my phone. I get in, I get out. No fussing about.
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Lol our tooth brushes have cases they aren't just sitting out in the open. Shudder. I know it's normal but def makes me cringe
Not only does the thought of it make me shudder - I simply just don't get it...same for reading magazines/books whilst on the toilet.
sit, wee, poo, wipe, flush.
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After a week here in FMC Lexington Satellite camp, a federal prison in Kentucky, I started catching up on national and international news via back issues of USA Today available in the prison library. An "In Brief" item, on p. 2A of the Jan. 30 weekend edition, caught my eye. It briefly described a protest in Washington, D.C., in which members of the antiwar group "Code Pink" interrupted a U.S. Senate Armed Services budget hearing chaired by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). The protesters approached a witness table where Henry Kissinger, Madeleine Albright, and George Schulz were seated. One of their signs called Henry Kissinger a war criminal. "McCain," the article continued, "blurted out, 'Get out of here, you low-life scum.'"
At mail call, a week ago, I received Richard Clarke's novel, The Sting of the Drone, about characters involved in developing and launching drone attacks. I'm in prison for protesting drone warfare, so a kind friend ordered it for me. The author, a former "National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism," worked for 30 years inside the U.S. government but seems to have greater respect than some within government for concerned people outside of it. He seems also to feel some respect for people outside our borders.
He develops, I think, a fair-minded approach toward evaluating drone warfare given his acceptance that wars and assassinations are sometimes necessary. (I don't share that premise). Several characters in the novel, including members of a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, criticize drone warfare, noting that in spite of high level, expensive reconnaissance, drone attacks still kill civilians, alienating people the U.S. ostensibly wants to turn away from terrorism.
News agencies reported Saturday morning that weeks ago President Obama signed an order, kept secret until now, to authorize continuation of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan for at least another year. The order authorizes U.S. airstrikes "to support Afghan military operations in the country" and U.S. ground troops to continue normal operations, which is to say, to "occasionally accompany Afghan troops" on operations against the Taliban.
The administration, in its leak to the New York Times, affirmed that there had been "heated debate" between Pentagon advisers and others in Obama's cabinet chiefly concerned not to lose soldiers in combat. Oil strategy isn't mentioned as having been debated and neither is further encirclement of China, but the most notable absence in the reporting was any mention of cabinet members' concern for Afghan civilians affected by air strikes and ground troop operations, in a country already afflicted by nightmares of poverty and social breakdown.
While the concern for civilians may have been discussed even if not reported, it's worth pointing out some of the suffering people on the ground continue to experience. Here are just three events, excerpted from an August 2014 Amnesty International report, which President Obama and his advisors should ha considered (and allowed into a public debate) before once more expanding the U.S. combat role in Afghanistan:
On Oct. 7, Georgia Walker and I appeared before Judge Matt Whitworth in a Jefferson City, Mo., federal court on a charge of criminal trespass to a military facility. The charge was based on our participation in a June 1 rally at Whiteman Airforce Base protesting drone warfare. Walker and I attempted to deliver a loaf of bread and a letter to the base commander, encouraging the commander to stop cooperating with any further usage of unmanned aerial vehicles, (drones) for surveillance and attacks.
The prosecutor, USAF Captain Daniel Saunders, said that if we would plead guilty to the charge, he would seek a punishment of one month in prison and a $500 fine. We told the prosecutor we could accept a "no contest" plea but were not willing to plead guilty. The prosecutor then said he would recommend a three-month prison sentence and a $500 fine. The judge refused to accept a "no contest" plea. We then requested a trial, which has been set for Dec. 10.
Kabul—"I woke up with the blast of another bomb explosion this morning," Imadullah told me. "I wonder how many people were killed." Imadullah, an 18-year-old Afghan Peace Volunteer from Badakhshan, had joined me at the APVs' Borderfree Community Centre of Nonviolence.
The news reported that at least three Afghan National Army soldiers were killed in the suicide bomb attack, in the area of Darulaman. Coincidentally, the Afghan Peace Volunteers had planned to be at the Darulaman Palace that same morning. To commemorate Gandhi's birthday and the International Day of Nonviolence, we wanted to form a human circle of peace at the palace, which is a war ruin. But the police, citing general security concerns, denied us permission.
Imadullah and Rauff, another APV member, continued discussing the attack. Rauff believes that the latest string of suicide bombings in Kabul have been in response to actions of the newly formed government. The Taliban condemned the new government — led by former World Bank official Ashraf Ghani and ex-warlord General Abdul Rashid Dostum — for signing the new U.S. /Afghanistan Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA).
Listening to Imadullah's and Rauff's concerns over the latest string of attacks, I wondered if I myself had become inured to this sober Afghan reality of perpetual war.
Here in Kabul, one of my finest friends is Zekerullah, who has gone back to school in the eighth grade although he is an 18-year old young man who has already had to learn far too many of life's harsh lessons.
Years ago and miles from here, when he was a child in the province of Bamiyan, and before he ran away from school, Zekerullah led a double life, earning income for his family each night as a construction crew laborer, and then attempting to attend school in the daytime. In between these tasks, the need to provide his family with fuel would sometimes drive him on six-hour treks up the mountainside, leading a donkey on which to load bags of scrub brush and twigs for the trip back down. His greatest childhood fear was of that donkey taking one disastrous wrong step with its load on the difficult mountainside.
And then, after reaching home weary and sleep deprived and with no chance of doing homework, he would, at times, go to school without having done his homework, knowing that he would certainly be beaten. When he was in seventh grade, his teacher punished him by adding 10 more blows each day he came to school without his homework, so that eventually he was hit 60 times in one day. Dreading the next day when the number would rise to 70, he ran away from that school and never returned.
Now Zekerullah is enrolled in another school, this time in Kabul, where teachers still beat the students. But Zekerullah can now claim to have learned much more, in some cases, than his teachers.
During a recent visit to Kabul's Emergency Surgical Center for Victims of War, the staff shared with us their sense of what's happening around the country, derived from the reports of staff working at several dozen clinics and at their main hospitals in two other provinces. They described Kabul as "a bubble." They told us full-scale wars are being fought between quite heavily armed forces in both eastern and southern Afghanistan, although the news coverage that goes beyond Afghanistan generally pertains to Kabul. The groups fighting the Afghan government include various warlords, the Taliban, drug kingpins, and foreign fighters, some of whom may be strategizing ways to cut off the roads to Kabul. The Kabul "bubble" can be quite vulnerable.
The borders now vanishing in the Middle East – the most radical transformations of the map here since the post-WWI Sykes Picot agreement – are being redrawn in chaos and fear. The bubbles that burst here are the hopes for peace in a world avid for control of this region and its resources. Unfortunately, durable structures of separation and domination make it difficult for many young Afghans to fulfill their longings to connect meaningfully, peacefully, and stably with a saner world united under one blue sky.
Peter and Kelly Shenk Koontz know the difficulties and joys of peacebuilding in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Last week, here in Kabul, the Afghan Peace Volunteers welcomed activist Carmen Trotta, from New York, who has lived in close community with impoverished people in his city for the past 25 years, serving meals, sharing housing, and offering hospitality to the best of his ability. Put simply and in its own words, his community, founded by Dorothy Day, exists to practice "the works of mercy" and to "end the works of war." We wanted to hear Carmen's first impressions of traveling the streets of Kabul on his way from the airport to the working class neighborhood where he'll be staying as the APVs' welcome guest.
He said it was the first time he'd seen the streets of any city so crowded with people who have no work.
Carmen had noticed men sitting in wheelbarrows, on curb sides, and along sidewalks, unemployed, some of them waiting for a day labor opportunity that might or might not come. Dr. Hakim, the APV's mentor, quoted Carmen the relevant statistics: the CIA World Fact Book uses research from 2008 to put Afghanistan's unemployment rate at 35 percent — just under the figure of 36 percent of Afghans living beneath the poverty level. That's the CIA's unemployment figure. Catherine James, writing in The Asian Review this past March, noted that "the Afghan Chamber of Commerce puts it at 40%, the World Bank measures it at 56% and Afghanistan's labor leaders put it at a shocking 86%."
"The final perversion is the reversal of who is the real victim here: the commander of a military base whose drones kill innocent people halfway around the world, or those innocent people themselves who are the real ones in need of protection from the terror of U.S. drone attacks?"
During my recent visit to Gangjeong, on Jeju Island, South Korea, where a protest community has struggled for years to block construction of a U.S. military base, conversations over delicious meals in the community kitchen were a delightful daily event. At lunchtime on my first day there I met Emily and Dongwon, a young and recently married couple, both protesters, who had met each other in Gangjeong. Emily recalled that when her parents finally travelled from Taiwan to meet her partner, they had to visit him in prison.
Dongwon, who is from a rural area of South Korea, had visited Gangjeong and gotten to know the small protest community living on the Gureombi Rock. Drawn by their tenacity and commitment, he had decided to join them. When a barge crane was dredging the sea in front of Gureombi Rock, Dongwon had climbed up to its tip and declined to come down. On February 18, 2013, a judge sentenced him to one year in prison for the nonviolent action.
The newly freed soldier who spent nearly five years in captivity in Afghanistan has the mental and physical toughness to survive the experience, his former pastor said.
"If there's anybody I can think of pulling through this, and doing well, it's Bowe," said Philip Proctor, who was pastor of Sovereign Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Boise, Idaho, when Bergdahl was a teenager.
"He has the mental and physical stamina not to be crushed by this experience," Proctor said.
An Afghan security guard allegedly shot and killed three Americans at a hospital in Kabul on Thursday. The three killed were doctors, including a visiting father and son.
Another doctor and a U.S. nurse were wounded in the attack.
District Police Chief Hafiz Khan said a guard suddenly turned his weapon on the staff he was supposed to be protecting at Cure International Hospital and started shooting.
"Five doctors had entered the compound of the hospital and were walking toward the building when the guard opened fire on them," said Kanishka Bektash Torkystani, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health. "Three foreign doctors were killed."
On March 28 at about 4 p.m., the Afghan Peace Volunteers heard a loud explosion nearby. For the rest of the evening and night, they anxiously waited for the sound of rocket fire and firing to stop. It was reported that a 10-year-old girl, and the four assailants, were killed.
Four days later, they circulated a video, poem and photos prefaced by this note:
"We had been thinking about an appropriate response to the violence perpetrated by the Taliban, other militia, the Afghan government, and the U.S./NATO coalition of 50 countries.
So, on the 31st of March 2014, in building alternatives and saying 'no' to all violence and all forms of war-making, a few of us went to an area near the place which was attacked, and there, we planted some trees. -- Love and thanks, The Afghan Peace Volunteers"
Christians have a presumption against war—as well as an obligation to help heal those who suffer its consequences.
For some veterans, PTSD rages on as "the war within."
Two weeks ago in a room in Kabul, Afghanistan, I joined several dozen people — working seamstresses, some college students, socially engaged teenagers, and a few visiting internationals like myself — to discuss world hunger. Our emphasis was not exclusively their own country's worsening hunger problems. Rather, tmhe Afghan Peace Volunteers, in whose home we were meeting, draw strength from looking beyond their own very real struggles.
With us was Hakim, a medical doctor who spent six years working as a public health specialist in the central highlands of Afghanistan and, prior to that, among refugees in Quetta, Pakistan. He helped us understand conditions that lead to food shortages and taught us about diseases, such as kwashiorkor and marasmus, which are caused by insufficient protein or general malnutrition.
We looked at U.N. figures about hunger in Afghanistan, which show malnutrition rates rising by 50 percent or more compared with 2012. The malnutrition ward at Helmand Province's Bost Hospital has been admitting 200 children a month for severe, acute malnutrition — four times more than in January 2012.
A recent New York Times article about the worsening hunger crisis described an encounter with a mother and child in an Afghan hospital: "In another bed is Fatima, less than a year old, who is so severely malnourished that her heart is failing, and the doctors expect that she will soon die unless her father is able to find money to take her to Kabul for surgery. The girl's face bears a perpetual look of utter terror, and she rarely stops crying."
Photos of Fatima and other children in the ward accompanied the article. In our room in Kabul, Hakim projected the photos on the wall. They were painful to see and so were the nods of comprehension from Afghans all too familiar with the agonies of poverty in a time of war.
Week after bloody week, the chart of killings lengthens. And in Afghanistan, while war rages, a million children are estimated to suffer from acute malnourishment as the country faces a worsening hunger crisis.
Around this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we can and should remember the dream Dr. King announced before the Lincoln Memorial, the dream he did so much to accomplish, remembering his call (as the King Center asks) for nonviolent solutions to desperate concerns of discrimination and inequality within the U.S. But we shouldn't let ourselves forget the full extent of Dr. King's vision, the urgent tasks he urgently set us to fulfill on his behalf, so many of them left unfinished nearly 46 years after he was taken from us.
The fire in the Chaman e Babrak camp in Kabul, Afghanistan, began in Nadiai's home shortly after noon. She had rushed her son, who had a severe chest infection, to the hospital. She did not know that a gas bottle was leaking; when the gas reached a wood-burning stove, flames engulfed her mud hut and extended to adjacent homes, swiftly rendering nine extended families homeless and destitute in the midst of already astounding poverty. By the time seven fire trucks had arrived in response to the fire at the refugee camp, the houses had burned to the ground.
No one was killed. When I visited the camp, three days after the disaster, that was a common refrain of relief. Nadiai's home was on the edge of the camp, close to the entrance road. Had the fire broken out in the middle of the camp, or at night when the homes were filled with sleeping people, the disaster could have been far worse.
Even so, Zakia, age 54, who also lives in the camp, said this is the worst catastrophe she has seen in her life, and already their situation was desperate.
Kabul, Afghanistan, is "home" to hundreds of thousands of children who have no home. Many of them live in squalid refugee camps with families that have been displaced by violence and war. Bereft of any income in a city already burdened by high rates of unemployment, families struggle to survive without adequate shelter, clothing, food, or fuel. Winter is especially hard for refugee families. Survival sometimes means sending their children to work on the streets, as vendors, where they often become vulnerable to well-organized gangs that lure them into drug and other criminal rings.
Last year, the Afghan Peace Volunteers (APV), young Afghans who host me and other internationals when we visit Kabul, began a program to help street children enroll in schools. The volunteers befriend small groups of children, get to know the children's families and circumstances, and then reach agreements with the families that if the children are allowed to attend school and reduce their working hours on the streets, the APVs will compensate the families, supplying them with oil and rice. Next, the APVs buy warm clothes for each child and invite them to attend regular classes at the APV home to learn the alphabet and math.
Yesterday, Abdulhai and Hakim met a young boy, Safar, age 13, who was working as a boot polisher on a street near the APV home. Abdulhai asked to shake Safar's hand, but the child refused. Understandably, Safar may have feared Abdulhai. But when Abdulhai and Hakim told Safar there were foreigners at the APV office who were keen to help, he followed them into our yard.
The long war has made clear the fantasty of firepower "solutions" to complex political problems.


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Language Competence Across Populations: Toward a Definition of Specific Language ImpairmentBy: Yonata Levy (editor), Jeannette C. Schaeffer (editor)Paperback
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DescriptionThis unique, edited book bridges studies in language disorders and linguistic theory with timely contributions from leading scholars in language development. It presents an attempt to define Specific Language Impairment, relating it to children of normal and disordered language capabilities. The chapter presentations examine language development across a variety of populations of children, from those with Specific Language Impairment to second language learners. The contributors discuss criteria for the definition of SLI, compare and contrast SLI with profiles of children with other disorders and dialects, and offer a comprehensive look at the Whole Human Language, which ties together spoken and signed languages. Methodological concerns that affect the credibility and generalizability of the findings are discussed and controversies between opposing linguistic approaches to language acquisition are presented. The conceptual thread that gradually reveals itself as the chapters unfold is a theoretical issue of central importance to cognitive theory, as well as to our understanding of the biological correlates of language--it concerns the variability that linguistic competence can manifest in children under different biological conditions and life circumstances. Language Competence Across Populations: Toward a Definition of Specific Language Impairment is an essential volume for advanced students and scholars in linguistics and psychology who have an interest in language acquisition and language disorders, as well as for the clinical professionals dealing with children with language impairments.
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ContentsContents: Y. Levy, J. Schaeffer, Preface. Part I:Language Competence Across Populations. Section 1:The Characterization of Specific Language Impairment. J. Schaeffer, An Introduction. K. Wexler, Lenneberg's Dream: Learning, Normal Language Development, and Specific Language Impairment. M.K. Rice, A Unified Model of Specific and General Language Delay: Grammatical Tense as a Clinical Marker of Unexpected Variation. M. Crago, J. Paradis, Two of a Kind? The Importance of Commonalities and Variation Across Languages and Learners. H.K.J. van der Lely, Do Heterogeneous Deficits Require Heterogeneous Theories? SLI Subgroups and the RDDR Hypothesis. J. Schaeffer, Pragmatics and SLI. J. de Jong, Specific Language Impairment and Linguistic Explanation. D. Ravid, R. Levie, G.A. Ben-Zvi, The Role of Language Typology in Linguistic Development: Implications for the Study of Language Disorders. Section 2:Methodological Concerns. G. Conti-Ramsden, An Introduction. L.B. Leonard, Specific Language Impairment: Characterizing a Deficit. C.B. Mervis, B.F. Robinson, Methodological Issues in Cross-Group Comparisons of Language and/or Cognitive Development. G. Bol, MLU-Matching and the Production of Morphosyntax in Dutch Children With Specific Language Impairment. E. Dromi, L.B. Leonard, A. Blass, Different Methodologies Yield Incongruous Results: A Study on the Spontaneous Use of Verb Forms in Hebrew. Section 3:Language Acquisition in Populations Other than Children With Specific Language Disorders. Y. Levy, An Introduction. H. Tager-Flusberg, Language Impairment in Children With Complex Neurodevelopmental Disorders: The Case of Autism. H. Clahsen, C. Temple, Words and Rules in Children With Williams Syndrome. Y. Levy, Basic Language Skills in Children With Neurodevelopmental Disorders and the Notion of Brain Plasticity. W. Sandler, On the Complementarity of Signed and Spoken Languages. Part II:Toward a Definition of SLI? D. Ben Shalom, Understanding SLI: A Neuropsychological Perspective. J. de Villiers, Defining SLI: A Linguistic Perspective.
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