title: Advancing description and explanation in clinical linguistics: a legacy of Martin J. Ball.
abstract: This article asserts the importance of explication of order and disorder in language as a privileged objective of clinical linguistics and service delivery and reviews the contributions of Martin Ball in advancing this agenda.
authors.affiliation: Department of Communicative Disorders, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA 70504-3170, USA. jsdamico@louisiana.edu
authors.forename: Jack S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Damico
authors.forename: Holly L
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Damico
authors.forename: Ryan L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Nelson
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D007806:Language Disorders / Q000266:history* / Q000628:therapy; D008037:Linguistics / Q000266:history*; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000266:history*; D011643:Publishing / Q000266:history*; D013066:Speech-Language Pathology / Q000266:history*