Overview

This volume offers almost 200 detailed entries covering the entire range of communication and speech disorders in children and adults, from basic science to clinical diagnosis. It is divided into four sections that reflect the standard categories with the field (also known as the speech-language pathology and audiology): voice, speech, language and hearing. Within each category, entries are organized into three subsections: basic sciences, disorders and clinical management. Basic sciences includes relevant information on normal anatomy and physiology, physics, psychology and psychophysics and linguistics; this provides a scientific foundation for entries in the other subsections. The entries that appear under disorders offer information on the definition and characterization of specific disorders and tools for their identification and assessment. The clinical management subsection describes appropriate interventions, including behavioural, pharmacological, surgical and prosthetic. Because the approach to communication disorders can be quite different for children and adults, many topics include separate entries reflecting this.

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Within a single volume, a world-class group of authors provides extraordinary breadth and penetrating depth in the four key areas of communication disorders. The information is timely, comprehensive, and extensive. This will become the standard by which other works in the field are measured. --Maurice I. Mendel, Dean and Director, School of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology, The University of Memphis

This Encyclopedia includes entries from leading experts in the major areas in the field of communication science. It is a comprehensive overview of the field, and an outstanding reference for work on communication disorders. --John E. Bernthal, Professor and Chair, Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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Raymond D. Kent is Professor of Communication Disorders at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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