CLINICAL LINGUISTICS THE NEW LINGUISTIC ORIENTATION AND ITS CONNECTION TO VARIOUS DISORDERS SPEECH

Abstract

Within the science of linguistic studies has shown a growing area of investigations within the discipline of linguistics but the specialty of Clinical linguistics has received very no systematic attention, this paper aims to correct this by handling and investigating this new branch which is the clinical linguistics, the paper will concern with the survey of how and why clinical linguistics emerged ,how this subfield developed up to the present days , the role the linguist played in this field and how he dealt with various speech disorder , how clinical linguistics can be a huge help to language pathologists and doctors., the interwoven relationship between clinical linguistic and speech pathology including both speech and language disorders with their branches including (Autism ,Aphasia, Schizophrenia, Stammering, Stuttering, etc.).