The Non-Verbal Child

designed to help teachers, parents or nurses who have to take on the task of helping such a child although they are not trained to do so. It deals briefly with the development of language and the brain mechanisms involved, and describes the causes and symptoms of speech dysfunction, as well as the clinical examination of affected children. There is a note on the differential diagnosis of general mental retardation, aphasia, autism and deafness, and a section on methods of remedial education. Because of its brevity, it suffers from over-simplification and lack of detailed explanation of difficult concepts. However, it does put forward