ABSTRACT
As the 1970s approached their end, I found I was able to write properly again. Projects which had been on the back burner began bubbling away and slowly came to the boil. I finished off my language pathology coursebook as well as the linguistics dictionary I’d been sporadically compiling. The work with LARSP had begun to spread, leading to an anthology of contributions from people who were using it in their clinics and classrooms. The arrival of electronic typewriters helped in all this, as did the first word processors. I look back with disbelief now at the first draft I made of The Grammatical Analysis of Language Disability. It is eighty-four pages of lined foolscap paper, with every word written out in longhand. Today, with fingers virtually attached to a keyboard, I shake my head at the time it must have taken, and look at my erstwhile neat writing with awe.
