Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Audiology & Speech Pathology

This text discusses some of the exciting ways we are examining issues in professional education. It covers actual content (for example the introduction of dysphagia to the...

The rich variety of activities for word retrieval and problem solving in the "Workbook for Cognitive Skills "has made it a favorite of clinicians over the past twenty years. The second edition of the "red book" builds on the original by adding 70 pages of entirely new exercises and 1,000 rewritten questions. Responding to the comments and suggestions of longtime users, the second edition of the "Workbook for Cognitive Skills" also features a sturdy ring binder that allows for trouble-free copying of exercises, a new page layout that is easier to read, and divider tabs that make it simple...

Research Methods in Speech and Language Therapy fills this gap. It will serve as an introductory text for students who are training to be therapists and as an introduction to more advanced methods for clinicians...

New features of the book include a chapter on speech and language disturbance due to cerebral tumour and the treatment of childhood cancers, as well as an expanded chapter on cerebral infection that includes recent work on children surviving cerebral malaria, one of the largest causes of cerebral...

The contributors, as well as describing their treatment approaches, have considered the theoretical models on which their approaches are based and ways of measuring outcomes, an important topic in an age of evidence based practice. In order to gain a more comprehensive view of the...

Multi-disciplinary professionals with specialist knowledge of working with deaf people explore aspects of mild to severe challenging behaviour with reference to its cause, assessment, prevention and management.

This book will be of relevance to professionals and carers involved in the delivery of...

The book offers a clear, basic definition of counseling, then builds a picture of the multidimensional role of counseling in speech-language pathology and audiology using anecdotal references to clinical cases.

Among the changes in the Second Edition, Dr. Shames, a...

This volume is the first electronics and instrumentation for audiology text and provides information on the variety of applications of electronics and audiology that are often omitted from science and engineering books. The book explains the operation of various instruments used in audiology applications, and it contains pertinent equations, numerical examples, and practice exercises. It also addresses fine details of electronics and instrumentation not often found in other texts, including the difficult concepts of electrical impedance and acoustic impedance. Additionally, it incorporates...

The clinical cases demonstrate how each patient's task...

Lo scopo del presente volume e quello di spiegare attraverso un linguaggio semplice e ricco di figure esemplificative il processo psico-biologico con il quale acquisiamo nuova conoscenza e quanto tale meccanismo sia importante nello sviluppo. La finalita principale e, infatti, quella di fornire al futuro logopedista il maggior numero di strumenti possibili per un valido ed efficace intervento nei disturbi caratteristici dell'eta evolutiva. A tal fine e nata l'esigenza di articolare il volume in diversi capitoli che analizzano l'apprendimento in una prospettiva scientifica globale, in cui...

Stuttering in Children and Adults was first published in 1955. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

One of the largest groups of handicapped people in the world today is made up of the estimated fifteen million persons who stutter. Their predicament has been one of man's most baffling problems ever since it was first recorded by the ancients, but not until the present century has the mystery of stuttering showed any signs of...