Using microcomputers to advance research in language disorders

We are at a critical point in advancing our knowledge of language disorders in both children and adults. The past decade of research has made clear that human verbal communication can no longer be productively studied in isolation from cognitive, social, and physiological developments. The complexity of verbal communication, the length of the acquisition period, the basis of its origins, and the variety of disorders documented to date require broad-based, interdisciplinary research efforts in the future.