David Crystal notes on his blog:
Long before I began this blog, correspondents were already writing asking how they could get hold of the three texts on clinical language profiling that were developed when I worked at the University of Reading in the 1970s. They had gone out of print, and it was proving difficult for new generations of students in speech therapy and language pathology to get hold of them. Those wanting to improve their proficiency in using the grammatical analysis known as LARSP (the ‘Language Assessment Remediation and Screening Procedure’) were particularly affected.
Old books have new leases of life today, thanks to Internet technology. So, my thanks goes to Tom Klee and his colleagues at the University of Canterbury at Christchurch, New Zealand, for hosting electronic versions of each of the books. Keyword searches can be made through the search facility of the PDF reader and the table of contents is linked to each chapter. The various profile forms in these works can be reproduced without charge.
The Grammatical Analysis of Language Disability can be downloaded from here
Working with LARSP can be downloaded from here
Profiling Language Disability can be downloaded from here
As it’s a busy university server, there may be the occasional delay in accessing the material. A download takes about a minute per text.
It’s great to see these books readily available once more. And this is especially timely, as a new book illustrating the way LARSP has been used in thirteen languages is about to appear: Assessing Grammar: the Languages of LARSP, edited by Martin Ball, David Crystal and Paul Fletcher, published by Multilingual Matters.
Excellent! My personal copy of “TGAOLD” sits a mere 15 feet away from my desk but its glue has died of old age and it now really exists as a “loose-leaf version.” Thanks, Martin – and thanks to those good people in Christchurch!