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Overview
The Handbook of Speech and Language Disorders, Second Edition, provides timely and authoritative coverage of current issues, foundational principles, and new research directions within the study of communication disorders. Building upon the reputation of the landmark first edition, this volume offers an exceptionally broad and in-depth survey of the field, presenting original chapters by internationally recognized specialists that examine an array of language, speech, and cognitive disorders and discuss the most crucial aspects of this evolving discipline while providing practical information on analytical methods and assessment.
Now in its second edition, the Handbook features extensively revised and refocused content throughout, reflecting the latest advances in the field. Original and updated chapters explore diverse topics including literacy and literacy impairments, patterns of normal and disordered language development, hearing impairment and cochlear implants, language acquisition and language delay, dementia, dysarthria, ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, and many others. This acclaimed single-volume reference resource:
- Provides 26 original chapters which describe the latest in new research and which indicate future research directions
- Covers new developments in research since the original publication of the first edition
- Features in-depth coverage of the major disorders of language and speech, including new insights on perception, hearing impairment, literacy, and genetic syndromes
- Includes a series of foundational chapters covering a variety of important general principles, including labelling, diversity, intelligibility, assessment, and intervention
The Handbook of Speech and Language Disorders, Second Edition, is essential reading for researchers, scholars, and students in speech and language pathology, speech, language and hearing sciences, and clinical llinguistics, as well as active practitioners and clinicians.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 2901118347163 |
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Publication date: | 09/17/2012 |
Pages: | 672 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d) |
About the Author
Nicole Müller is Professor and Head of the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at University College Cork, Ireland. She is co-founder and co-editor of the book series Communication Disorders Across Languages and formerly co-edited the journal Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics.
Martin J. Ball is Honorary Professor of Linguistics at Bangor University, Wales. He is co-editor of the Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech and formerly co-edited Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics.
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Table of Contents
List of Figures viiNotes on Contributors ix
Introduction 1Jack S. Damico, Nicole Müller, and Martin J. Ball
Part I Foundations 5
1 Labeling as a Sociocultural Process in Communicative Disorders 7Jack S. Damico, Nicole Müller, and Martin J. Ball
2 Diversity Considerations in Speech and Language Disorders: A Focus on Training 33Elena Babatsouli
3 Hearing Loss and Cochlear Implants 53David Jackson Morris and Daan Van de Velde
4 Intelligibility Impairment 81Katherine C. Hustad and Stephanie A. Borrie
5 Genetic Syndromes and Communication Disorders 95Vesna Stojanovik
6 Principles of Assessment and Intervention 110Bonnie Brinton, Martin Fujiki, and Robert Brinton Fujiki
Part II Language Disorders 129
7 Autism Spectrum Disorders 131Patricia A. Prelock
8 Language Acquisition and Language Delay 152Paul Fletcher
9 Developmental Language Disorder 171Sandra L. Gillam, Sarai Holbrook, and Alan G. Kamhi
10 Pragmatic Impairment 192Louise Cummings
11 Learning Disabilities 209Christine Brennan
12 Literacy and Literacy Impairments 237Holly Damico, Jack S. Damico, and Ryan Nelson
13 Language and Literacy in the Context of Early Life Adversity 266Pamela Snow, Suze Leitão, and Natalie Kippin
14 Aphasia 286Chris Code
Part III Speech Disorders 311
15 Children with Speech Sound Disorders 313Susan Rvachew
16 Dysarthria 334Ingo Hertrich, Hermann Ackermann, and Wolfram Ziegler
17 Apraxia of Speech 368Adam Jacks and Katarina L. Haley
18 Augmentative and Alternative Communication: An Introduction 391Kathryn D. R. Drager, Erinn H. Finke, and Elizabeth C. Serpentine
19 Fluency and Fluency Disorders 414John A. Tetnowski, Kathleen Scaler Scott, and Brittany Falcon Rutland
20 Describing, Assessing, and Treating Voice Disorders 445Richard J. Morris and Archie B. Harmon
21 Speech Disorders Related to Cleft Palate and Velopharyngeal Dysfunction 468Debbie Sell, Valerie Pereira, Yvonne Wren, and Jane Russell
22 Speech Disorders Related to Head and Neck Cancer: Laryngectomy, Glossectomy, and Velopharyngeal and Maxillofacial Defects 495Tim Bressmann
Part IV Cognitive and Intellectual Disorders 529
23 ADHD and Communication Disorders 531Carol Westby and Silvana M. R. Watson
24 Communication Deficits Associated with Right Hemisphere Brain Damage 571Margaret Lehman Blake
25 Traumatic Brain Injury 590Karen Lê and Jennifer Mozeiko
26 Dementia 613Nicole Müller and Zaneta Mok
Author Index 643
Subject Index 666
What People are Saying About This
"Damico, Müller and Ball have successfully responded to a challenge unanswered since the last revision of Travis’ (1971) handbook. They have compiled a work that comprehensively documents how the study of language and speech disorders has changed since then."—Audrey Holland, University of Arizona
"If you’ve been looking for an accessible reference text on language and speech disorders, written by respected experts, then your search stops here."—Fiona Gibbon, University College Cork, Ireland
“This handbook is a worthy successor to the classic publication edited by Lee Edward Travis. The editors have recruited capable authors to meet the challenge of assembling a text that is contemporary and comprehensive in its coverage of the field.”—Raymond Kent, University of Wisconsin, Madison