Louise Cummings

Case Studies in Communication Disorders

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a collection of 48 highly useful case studies of children and adults with communication disorders.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 526
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1079g
• ISBN-13: 9781107154872
• ISBN-10: 1107154871
• Artikelnr.: 45154334

Autorenporträt

Louise Cummings is Professor of Linguistics at Nottingham Trent University. She is a member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and is registered with the Health Professions Council in the UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Speech Disorders: 1. Cleft lip and palate
2. Developmental dysarthria
3. Developmental verbal dyspraxia
4. Glossectomy
5. Acquired dysarthria
6. Apraxia of speech
7. Foreign accent syndrome
Part II. Language Disorders: 8. Developmental phonological disorder
9. Specific language impairment
10. Pragmatic language impairment
11. Developmental dyslexia
12. Language in intellectual disability
13.Language in autism spectrum disorder
14. Language in epilepsy
15. Language in paediatric traumatic brain injury
16. Language in childhood cancer
17. Fluent and non-fluent aphasia
18. Right-hemisphere language disorder
19. Language in adult traumatic brain injury
20. Language in dementia
21. Language in other neurodegenerative disorders
Part III. Fluency Disorders: 22. Developmental stuttering
23. Acquired stuttering
24. Cluttering
Part IV. Voice Disorders: 25. Organic voice disorder
26. Functional voice disorder
27. Laryngectomy
28. Transsexual voice
Part V. Hearing Disorders: 29. Conductive hearing loss
30. Sensorineural hearing loss
31. Cochlear implantation
32. Central auditory processing disorder
Part VI. Psychiatric Disorders: 33. Childhood emotional and behavioural disorders
34. Schizophrenia
35. Bipolar disorder
Appendix A. Answers to questions
Appendix B. Suggestions for further reading.