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The Handbook of Language and Speech Disorders Jack S. Damico (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA)

The Handbook of Language and Speech Disorders By Jack S. Damico (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA)

The Handbook of Language and Speech Disorders by Jack S. Damico (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA)


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The Handbook of Speech and Language Disorders presents a comprehensive survey of the latest research in communication disorders. Reflecting the rapid advances in the field, the Handbook features in-depth coverage of the major disorders of language and speech, including perception.

The Handbook of Language and Speech Disorders Summary

The Handbook of Language and Speech Disorders by Jack S. Damico (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA)

The Handbook of Speech and Language Disorderspresents 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.

About Jack S. Damico (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA)

Jack S. Damicois the Doris B. Hawthorne Eminent Scholar in Communicative Disorders and Special Education at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is co-editor of theJournal 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 Mulleris a Hawthorne-BoRSF Endowed Professor of Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She is the founder-editor of theJournal of Multilingual Communication Disorders, and is now a co-editor, with Martin J. Ball, ofClinical Linguistics and Phonetics. She is co-author of Approaches to Discourse in Dementia(2005), and co-editor ofTheHandbook of Clinical Linguistics(Wiley-Blackwell, 2008).

Martin J. Ballis 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 areClinical Sociolinguistics(Wiley-Blackwell, 2005),Phonetics for Communication Disorders(co-authored with N. Muller, 2005) andCritical Concepts in Clinical Linguistics (co-edited with Tom Powell, 2009)

Table of Contents

List of Figures vii

Notes on Contributors viii

Introduction 1
Jack S. Damico, Nicole Muller, and Martin J. Ball

Part I Foundations 9

1 Social and Practical Considerations in Labeling 11
Jack S. Damico, Nicole Muller, 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 Le, and Carl Coelho

26 Dementia 600
Nicole Muller

Author Index 626

Subject Index 644

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9781118347164
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The Handbook of Language and Speech Disorders by Jack S. Damico (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA)
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd
2012-10-05
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