'… an important reference guide, for the layperson and expert alike. It provides a useful and comprehensive overview of communication disorders and how they are best managed. Whilst progress has been made in recent years on understanding and treating communication disorders, there is still a long way to go. I am sure that this Handbook will be an integral part of this process.' Rt Hon John Bercow MP, Speaker of the House of Commons and author of the Bercow Report (2008), a review of services for children and young people with speech, language and communication needs
Part I. Developmental Communication Disorders: 1. Cleft lip and palate and other craniofacial anomalies John E. Riski; 2. Developmental dysarthria Megan Hodge; 3. Developmental verbal dyspraxia Brigid McNeill; 4. Developmental phonological disorder Susan Rvachew; 5. Specific language impairment Susan Ellis Weismer; 6. Developmental dyslexia Catherine Christo; 7. Intellectual disability and communication Katherine Short-Meyerson and Glenis Benson; 8. Emotional disturbance and communication Gregory J. Benner and J. Ron Nelson; 9. Autistic spectrum disorders and communication Courtenay Frazier Norbury; Part II. Acquired Communication Disorders: 10. Head and neck cancer and communication Tim Bressmann; 11. Acquired dysarthria Bruce E. Murdoch; 12. Apraxia of speech Donald A. Robin and Sabina Flagmeier; 13. Aphasia Roelien Bastiaanse and Ronald S. Prins; 14. Right hemisphere damage and communication Yves Joanette, Perrine Ferré and Maximiliano A. Wilson; 15. Dementia and communication Jamie Reilly and Jinyi Hung; 16. Traumatic brain injury and communication Leanne Togher; 17. Psychiatric disorders and communication Karen Bryan; Part III. Voice, Fluency and Hearing Disorders: 18. Functional and organic voice disorders Nadine P. Connor and Diane M. Bless; 19. Stuttering and cluttering Kathleen Scaler Scott; 20. Hearing disorders R. Steven Ackley; Part IV. Management of Communication Disorders: 21. Developmental motor speech disorders Kirrie Ballard and Patricia McCabe; 22. Acquired motor speech disorders Anja Lowitt; 23. Developmental language disorders Laurence B. Leonard; 24. Acquired aphasia Anne Whitworth, Janet Webster and Julie Morris; 25. Disorders of voice Linda Rammage; 26. Disorders of fluency J. Scott Yaruss; Part V. Theoretical Developments in Communication Disorders: 27. Motor speech disorders and models of speech production Karen Croot; 28. Adult neurological disorders and semantic models Tobias Bormann; 29. Language in genetic syndromes and cognitive modularity Vesna Stojanovik; 30. Pragmatic disorders and theory of mind Louise Cummings.