"This book will certainly delight orthophonists and is not without interest for other readers since the link between psychomotor disorders and orthophonic disorders is of growing interest to researchers and clinicians. This is a subject area which should be followed closely." --Evolutions Psychomotrices

from:Sergi Zanini
"...valuable and well realized ...All [sixty chapters] are concise, clear, easily readable ...can be used both as an introductory tool to study language and its pathologies and as a rapid source of state-of-the-art information on specific topics for researchers and clinicians." --International Journal of Bilingualism

Section headings and selected papers: Speech and Language in Normal Speakers. Acoustics of speech (H.J. Wakita). Speech perception (D.W. Massaro). Neuromuscular aspects of speech (H. Hirose). The neurophysiology of speech (V.L. Gracco, K.G. Munhall). Babbling in hearing and deaf infants (C. Stoel-Gammon). Acquisition of Vocabulary (M.D. Barrett). Language development and brain development (J.L. Locke). Sociolinguistics and language pathology (L. Wei, Z. Hua). General Aspects of Speech and Language Pathologies. Overview (J.M. Cooper). Developmental Causes (S.O. Richardson). International Perspectives (K.G. Butler). Developmental Speech and Language Pathologies. Deafness and sign language (E. Pizzuto, V. Volterra). Disorders of fluency (H.H. Gregory, C.B. Gregory). Disorders of fluency: intervention (L. Rustin, F. Cook). Specific language impairment: subtypes and assessment (M. Korkman). Developmental disorders of language: evaluation of the effectiveness of (G. Bedi, E. Dorset). Classification of developmental dyslexia and intervention (J. Robertson, D.J. Bakker). Acquired Speech Pathologies. Disorders of voice (L. Mathieson). Acquired disorders of articulation: classification and intervention (H. Ackermann). Acquired Language Pathologies. Historical perspectives of aphasia (Y. Lebrun). Language and the brain (J.M. Gurd, J.C. Marshall). Neurolinguistic assessment of aphasia (C. Luzzatti). Syndromes of aphasia (D. Tranel, S.W. Anderson). Acquired childhood aphasia (B.E. Murdoch). Disorders of reading and writing (M. Snowling, A. Edmundson). The right hemisphere and verbal communication (D. Van Lancker). Rehabilitation of acquired language disorders (G. Demeurisse). Acquired disorders of language (aphasia): evaluation of effectiveness of intervention (R. Whurr, M Lorch). Language Pathology in Neuropshychiatric Disorders. Autism (S. Baron-Cohen). Language disorders in psychoses (L.C. Sanfilippo, R.E. Hoffman).