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.