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The author has worked extensively in the area of evaluation and treatment of children with language and learning disorders. She began her work as a Speech and Hearing Specialist in the Hawaiian Islands. Her studies there of the relationships of non-standard Hawaiian dialects to academic readiness led to a long-term concern with the developmental interactions of oral language failures with learning and academic performance. Dr. Beadle is currently the Director of the Stanford Speech and Language Clinic at the Stanford University School of Medicine and has recently completed a 5-year study of pre-school children with speech and language disorders. ABSTRACT Results of research and clinical investigation in speech and language development have identified the linguistic process as a primary determinant of human behavior. Disturbances in this process may lead to learning and academic failures, and may be either the cause or the result of various forms of behavioral disorders. Children with developmentalspeech and language disorders therefore present a complex set of problems. A thorough differential diagnostic evaluation requires the evaluation of pertinent physiological, environmental and emotional considerations, as well as measures of linguistic competence and performance. The recognition that a speech disturbance may affect a broad spectrum of behavior should lead to more effective programs of treatment and intervention.

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