Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Audiology & Speech Pathology

Motor speech disorders are a common accompaniment of a whole range of neurological conditions, from stroke, brain injury and Parkinson's disease through to many rarer conditions. This book aims to aid understanding of the nature of motor speech disorders from a cross-language perspective, in contrast to the largely English-centric nature of research and practice recommendations to date. The book looks not just at how these motor speech disorders are assessed and treated in other countries, but also examines how underlying speech impairments differ according to the language someone speaks....

Grouped into five sections, the...

For people with severe/profound and multiple disabilities, managing the basic necessities of daily life often poses myriad challenges. Despite great odds, advances in assistive technology are making a difference in these individuals' lives. Advances in microswitches, voice outcome communication aids, and computer-based systems are creating new opportunities for living independently, improving basic life skills, and reducing problem behaviors among individuals with combined motor, sensory, and intellectual disabilities.

This unique volume examines how education and rehabilitation can...

Statistik lernen leicht gemacht

Statistik verstehen und anwenden - dabei unterstutzt dieses Buch Bachelor-Studierende und Angehorige der Gesundheitsfachberufe durch verstandliche Vermittlung der Theorie und zahlreiche Anwendungsbeispiele aus und fur die Praxis.

Das Statistiklehrbuch vermittelt den Lesenden ein vertieftes Verstandnis von grundlegenden statistischen Verfahren. Es gibt ihnen die notwendigen Werkzeuge an die Hand, eigene Datensatze statistisch auszuwerten und fremde Daten besser zu verstehen. Zahlreiche Ubungsaufgaben (und deren Auflosung) sowie...

Breathing and support are considered cornerstones of a secure vocal technique for classical singing. No area of vocal pedagogy has been more controversial and, despite recent advances in the understanding of how the respiratory system functions, both in speech and song, some breath management strategies for singing continue to be at odds with scientific fact. Furthermore, many singers find the development of these skills a challenge.

In this practical, and concise book, Ron Morris, speech pathologist and singer, and Linda Hutchison, singer and singing teacher, introduce Accent...

A mother whose child has had a cochlear implant tells Laura Mauldin why enrollment in the sign language program at her daughter s school is plummeting: The majority of parents want their kids to talk. Some parents, however, feel very differently, because curing deafness with cochlear implants is uncertain, difficult, and freighted with judgment about what is normal, acceptable, and right. "Made to Hear" sensitively and thoroughly considers the structure and culture of the systems we have built to make deaf children hear.

Based on accounts of and interviews with families who adopt the...

Dieses Praxis- und Fortbildungsbuch erklart das Behandlungskonzept fur facio-orale Storungen bei allen Altersgruppen nach Kay Coombes. Das Therapiekonzept ist in jeder Rehabilitationsphase von der Intensivstation uber die Stroke Unit und die Fruhrehabilitation bis zur ambulanten Rehabilitation bei allen Schweregraden der Storung anwendbar. Behandlungsansatze fur Schluckstorungen, Atmung, Sprechen und Stimme, Mundhygiene sowie Trachealkanulen-Management werden praxisnah anhand von Illustrationen aufgezeigt.

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A mother whose child has had a cochlear implant tells Laura Mauldin why enrollment in the sign language program at her daughter s school is plummeting: The majority of parents want their kids to talk. Some parents, however, feel very differently, because curing deafness with cochlear implants is uncertain, difficult, and freighted with judgment about what is normal, acceptable, and right. "Made to Hear" sensitively and thoroughly considers the structure and culture of the systems we have built to make deaf children hear.

Based on accounts of and interviews with families who adopt the...

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• American Library Association's Choice Outstanding Academic Title (1999)

• One of the Globe and Mail's 100 Notable Books of 1998.

This classic book on deafness and cochlear implants, now available in a new edition that's been revised and updated by the author. This rare "inside" account of hearing with a cochlear implant, the first effective artificial sensory organ ever developed, is a moving story about a deaf woman's journey through deafness and into hearing.

Praised by Oliver Sacks as "a beautiful account full of wonder and...

This handbook includes an overview of those areas of cognition and language processing that are relevant to the field of communication disorders, and provides examples of theoretical approaches to problems and issues in communication disorders.

The first section includes a collection of chapters that outline some of the basic considerations and areas of cognition and language that underlie communication processing; a second section explains and exemplifies some of the influential theories of psycholinguistic/cognitive processing; and the third section illustrates theoretical...

Vertigo and disequilibrium] work-up is a daunting and intimidating task....This book successfully addresses common misunderstandings and lays out a systematic approach....This makes the task of opening the "black box" that is the vestibular system appear less daunting and puts the reader at ease. -- American Journal of Neuroradiology

...I really like that this book contains information relevant to many different professions working with the vestibular system and the dizzy patient....this book offers a good foundation for someone who is just starting to...