Human communication disorders : an introduction / [edited by] George H. Shames, Elisabeth H. Wiig, Wayne A. Secord. - 5th edition - Boston : Allyn and Bacon, c1998. - xiii, 706 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 639-680) and indexes.

CONTENTS
PART ONE Introduction
Chapter 1 The professions of speech-language Pathology And Audiology
Fred Spahr and Russ Malone
Are Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Professions ?
What Do speech- Language and Hearing Scientists
Career And Job Opportunities
Attributes and Requirements
Credentialing
Associations
Rewards
PART TWO Bases of Human Communication
Chapter 2 Development of Human communication and speech
Roberts B. Owens, jr
Communication
Language
Speech
Chapter 3 Anatomy and Physiology of speech
Willard R. Zemlin
Respiration
The Larynx and Phonation
Articulation
The Nervous System and speech production
PART TWO Differences and Disorders of language
Chapter 4 Communication differences and disorders
Kay T. Payne and Orlando L. Taylor
Basic concept Related to Culture and Language
Dialects of American English
Language Differences and Communication Disorders
Chapter 5 Communication Disorders in Infants, Toddlers, and preschool children
Amy M. Wetherby
Nature of Language Disorders in Young Children
Services Delivery Models for infants, Toddlers, And Preschool Children
Assessment Issues And strategies
intervention Approach and Strategies
Chapter 6 Language Disabilities and School-Age Children and Youth
Elisabeth H. Wiig and Wayne A. Secord
Definitions
Prevalence
Underlying Mechanisms
Characteristics of School- Age language Disabilities
Deficits and Morphology and syntax
Interventions Perspectives
PART FOUR Disorders of Articulation, voice, fluency
Chapter 7 Phonological disorders
Richard G. Schwartz
The Nature of Phonological Disorders
Determinants of phonological Disorders
Assessment
The process of Assessment
Intervention
Chapter 8 Voice Disorders
Douglas M. Hicks
Voice Problems Among Communication Disorders
Phonation and the larynx
parallel perceptual and physical factors
Resonance
Factors That influence Vocal Fold Voice
Localized Lesions and Other Disorders
Voice disorders related to resonance Deviations
Assessment And Diagnosis
Therapy for Voice Disorders
Speech Without a larynx
Chapter 9 The Fluency Disorder of stuttering
peter R. Ramig and George H. Shames
Definition
Theories of causation
Normal Disfluency
The Development of Stuttering
The Assessment Process
Therapy for Stuttering
Prevention
Some Final Thoughts by a prodigy of Stuttering
PART FIVE Disorders of special populations
Chapter 10 Hearing and Hearing Disorders
The Nature of sound
Disorders of Hearing
The Measurement of Hearing
Types of Hearing loss
Implications of Hearing Loss
Remediation
Chapter 11 Cleft palate
Betty Jane McWilliams and Mary Anne Witzel
Examples
Prevalence
Underlying Mechanisms
Diagnosis
Treatment approaches
Interdisciplinary Care
Chapter 12 Neurogenic Disorders of Speech
Leonard L. Lapointe and Richard.C.Katz
Classifications and Definitions
Basic Concepts
Components of the motor speech system
Causes of Neurogenic Speech Disorders
Characteristics and types
Assessment
Treatment
Specific treatment Goals
Counseling
Chapter 13 Aphasia and related Adult Disorders
Carol S. Swindell, Audrey L. Holland, and O. M. Reinmuth
Aphasia and the Brain
Syndromes of Aphasia
Mechanisms of Aphasia
The Person with Aphasia
The Assisted Recovery Process in Aphasia
Related Disorders
Chapter 14 Alternative and Augmentative Communication
Kathleen A. Kangas and Lyle L. Lloyd
Functions of AAC
Categories of AAC
AAC Model
Reasons for AAC success
Communicative Competence
Potential Users of AAC
Assessment
intervention
Funding, Rights, and user perspectives
Professional and Support Organizations
Chapter 15 Celebral Palsy
James C. Hardy
Terminology
incidence
Etiology
Types of Acquired Neuromtor Disorders in celebral Palsy
Abnormal Reflex Behavioirs
Communication Disorders
The Nessecity of an interdisplinary Approach
Systems for improvement of Neuromotor Function
Remediation of Communication Disorders
The Era of Assistive Technology



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Communicative disorders.
Communicative Disorders.

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