Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics encompasses the following:

    Linguistics and phonetics of disorders of speech and language
    Contribution of data from communication disorders to theories of speech production and perception
    Research on communication disorders in multilingual populations, and in under-researched populations, and languages other than English
    Pragmatic aspects of speech and language disorders
    Clinical dialectology and sociolinguistics
    Childhood, adolescent and adult disorders of communication
    Linguistics and phonetics of hearing impairment, sign language and lip-reading



Please note Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics does not include studies of normal speech or language development unless there is a substantial section devoted to examples of the clinical relevance of the study.