Research in semantics is conducted in a wide variety of disciplines, and this text seeks to bring together those areas. Contributions are from an international group of applied researchers. There are chapters on: models of semantic processing, connectionist modelling, sentence processing in children and adults, semantic processing in the normal elderly, semantic category disorders, semantic therapy in aphasia, semantic processing in Alzheimer's disease, semantic dementia and conceptual semantics. The book is aimed primarily at the undergraduate reader or readers with limited knowledge of...

This book focuses on language and communication issues with older people with mental health problems. Radically revised and updated from the authors' earlier book, -Communication Disability and the Psychiatry of Old Age-, this book recognizes that language and communication is not just the business of speech and language therapy but is relevant to all staff involved with people who have mental health difficulties.

This book focuses on what older people with mental health difficulties require to maintain their independence and to minimize the effects of degenerative disease processes for as...