FYI: Call for Book Chapters for New Versions of LARSP

Author:	Martin Ball
Linguistic Field(s):	Applied Linguistics
FYI Body:	Clinical Linguists to author new versions of LARSP Martin Ball, David Crystal and Paul Fletcher have recently edited a book collecting together new versions of LARSP (Language Assessment Remediation Screening Procedure) for 12 languages other than the original English. Details are available at http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?K=9781847696380 . LARSP is used to assess the syntax and morphology of children and adults with language disorders. This project proved so successful that they have now been contracted to produce a second volume by the same publisher. This volume will cover a further 15 languages and the projected publication date is 2013. Since they settled the final contents of volume 2, they have already received offers for chapters in a third volume but, for this to be feasible, they need to expand the number of chapters and to fill some of the most important gaps in linguistic coverage that we still have. Clinical Linguists and Speech Pathologists working on the following languages are invited to contact Martin Ball if they are interested in possibly contributing to this new volume: Bulgarian, Czech, Italian, Polish, Romanian, any languages of the former Soviet Union other than Russian, Swahili, and Tagalog. The chapters of this edition would follow the format of chapters in the first. There would be a brief grammatical sketch, an account of normal linguistic development where that is available for the language, and the design of a LARSP chart for the language concerned. An optional final section would be a brief account of the use of the chart with actual clients if that has been undertaken. Researchers unfamiliar with LARSP will be provided with descriptions of this assessment procedure. Chapters should be between 6000 and 8000 words including references. At the moment dates for submissions have not been decided. It would, however, be no earlier than the end of 2013.