Reviews the book, Language and Disadvantage: Studies in Language Disability and Remediation 5 by John R. Edwards (1979). This book is an attempt to bring various aspects of the study of language to bear on the study of language disability. This book views the speech of the disadvantaged as primarily a sociolinguistic, as opposed to a psychological question. Thus, disadvantage in general is characterized as a result of social forces that cause the victims to adopt cultural and linguistic norms that are different from those of middle-class society. In sum, the author presents an honest appraisal of an important social issue. He has picked out the most relevant research and summarized it lucidly and fairly, organizing and presenting the whole in such a way that it is an effective tool in the educational campaign he advocates. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)