The Handbook of Language and Speech Disorders

Author:   Jack S. Damico (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA) ,  Nicole Müller ,  Martin J. Ball (University of Ulster)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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9781118347164


Pages:   672
Publication Date:   05 October 2012
Format:   Paperback
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The Handbook of Speech and Language Disorders presents a comprehensive survey of the latest research in communication disorders. Contributions from leading experts explore current issues, landmark studies, and the main topics in the field, and include relevant information on analytical methods and assessment. A series of foundational chapters covers a variety of important general principles irrespective of specific disorders. These chapters focus on such topics as classification, diversity considerations, intelligibility, the impact of genetic syndromes, and principles of assessment and intervention. Other chapters cover a wide range of language, speech, and cognitive/intellectual disorders.

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Author:   Jack S. Damico (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA) ,  Nicole Müller ,  Martin J. Ball (University of Ulster)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 17.30cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 24.70cm
Weight:   1.016kg
ISBN:  

9781118347164


ISBN 10:   1118347161
Pages:   672
Publication Date:   05 October 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures vii Notes on Contributors viii Introduction 1 Jack S. Damico, Nicole Müller, and Martin J. Ball Part I Foundations 9 1 Social and Practical Considerations in Labeling 11 Jack S. Damico, Nicole Müller, and Martin J. Ball 2 Diversity Considerations in Speech and Language Disorders 38 Brian A. Goldstein and Ramonda Horton-Ikard 3 Intervention for Children with Auditory or Visual Sensory Impairments 57 Laura W. Kretschmer and Richard R. Kretschmer 4 Intelligibility Impairments 99 Megan Hodge and Tara Whitehill 5 Genetic Syndromes and Communication Disorders 115 Vesna Stojanovik 6 Principles of Assessment and Intervention 131 Bonnie Brinton and Martin Fujiki Part II Language Disorders 151 7 Autism Spectrum Disorders: The State of the Art 153 John Muma and Steven Cloud 8 Delayed Language Development in Preschool Children 178 Deborah Weiss and Rhea Paul 9 Specifi c Language Impairment 210 Sandra L. Gillam and Alan G. Kamhi 10 Pragmatic Impairment 227 Michael R. Perkins 11 Learning Disabilities 247 Robert Reid and Laura Jacobson 12 Reading and Reading Impairments 267 Jack S. Damico and Ryan Nelson 13 Substance Abuse and Childhood Language Disorders 296 Truman E. Coggins and John C. Thorne 14 Aphasia 317 Chris Code Part III Speech Disorders 337 15 Children with Speech Sound Disorders 339 Sara Howard 16 Dysarthria 362 Hermann Ackermann, Ingo Hertrich, and Wolfram Ziegler 17 Apraxia of Speech 391 Adam Jacks and Donald A. Robin 18 Augmentative and Alternative Communication: An Introduction 410 Kathryn D. R. Drager, Erinn H. Finke, and Elizabeth C. Serpentine 19 Fluency and Fluency Disorders 431 John A. Tetnowski and Kathy Scaler Scott 20 Describing Voice Disorders 455 Richard Morris and Archie Bernard Harmon 21 Orofacial Anomalies 474 Jane Russell 22 Speech Disorders Related to Head and Neck Cancer: Laryngectomy, Glossectomy, and Velopharyngeal and Maxillofacial Deficits 497 Tim Bressmann Part IV Cognitive and Intellectual Disorders 527 23 ADHD and Communication Disorders 529 Carol Westby and Silvana Watson 24 Communication Defi cits Associated with Right Hemisphere Brain Damage 556 Margaret Lehman Blake 25 Traumatic Brain Injury 577 Jennifer Mozeiko, Karen Lé, and Carl Coelho 26 Dementia 600 Nicole Müller Author Index 626 Subject Index 644

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Jack S. Damico is the Doris B. Hawthorne Eminent Scholar in Communicative Disorders and Special Education at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is co-editor of the Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders . His books include Childhood Language Disorders (1995),Clinical Aphasiology: Future Directions(co-edited with M. Ball, 2007), and Special Education Considerations for English Language Learners (co-authored with E. Hamayan, B. Marler, and C. Sanchez-Lopez, 2007). Nicole Müller is a Hawthorne-BoRSF Endowed Professor of Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She is the founder-editor of the Journal of Multilingual Communication Disorders, and is now a co-editor, with Martin J. Ball, of Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics.  She is co-author of Approaches to Discourse in Dementia (2005), and co-editor of The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008). Martin J. Ball is Hawthorne-BoRSF Endowed Professor, and Director of the Hawthorne Center for Research in Communicative Disorders, at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. his most recent books are Clinical Sociolinguistics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005), Phonetics for Communication Disorders (co-authored with N. Müller, 2005) and Critical Concepts in Clinical Linguistics (co-edited with Tom Powell, 2009)

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