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zurückThis is the only book to relate all three of the currently interactive areas of speech science - acoustic phonetics, speech perception, and speech technology. The book presents a gradual course: starting with a clear tutorial approach to basic acoustics of speech and then leading to successively higher levels, explaining speech perception research, the various theories of speech perception, and the modern speech technologies of computer synthesis and recognition of speech messages. The aim is to gradually bring the student through basic acoustics, spectrum analysis, vowel and consonant acoustics, and into the research literature of speech perception and technology. The technical terms, essential to understanding acoustic speech sounds and how they are produced, are all explained clearly.
The basic acoustic theory of speech production, the Source-Filter Theory, is clarified via text and diagrams. This knowledge is then applied to interpreting spectrograms of speech examples that sample all the phonetic distinctions among vowels and consonants. Distinctive acoustical patterns for vowel and consonant perception by listeners are summarized in detail based on the research literature. Critical discussions and tables provide and summarize the theories of motor, auditory, and computer recognition of speech. Consonant and vowel recognition by the hearing-impaired is described in relation to acoustic phonetic distinctions. Techniques of speech synthesis, recognition analysis by machines, and speech technologies are thoroughly explained.
The Auditory System: Anatomy, Physiology, and Clinical Correlates was written to provide a comprehensive text on the anatomy and physiology of the peripheral as well as the central auditory systems.
The text provides balanced coverage and, whenever possible, a case study, a brief review, or a clinical comment is connected to the basic science principle being discussed. The added "clinical" information is highlighted in the text as clinical or pathological correlates. This feature is designed to provide a link between science and practice in a relevant manner.
Aphasiology: Disorders and Clinical Practice, 2/eoffers a uniquely balanced and comprehensive presentation of aphasia, encompassing both theoretical study and clinical practice.
Written in a highly accessible style, this text carefully explains and illustrates key paradigms in research and treatment. The author uses tables to summarize essential points and to provide historical overviews.
Structured according to a course outline, the book begins with etiology and moves quickly to clinical assessment. It teaches diagnostic thinking with respect to the relationships between symptoms and hidden impairments in cognitive terms. This thinking is illustrated with research as well as more explicitly with assessments and treatments. Through this approach, a future clinician should acquire an appreciation for the scientific investigation that supports a clinical discipline.
Articulation and Phonological Disorders, Fifth Edition, presents a comprehensive review of information important to the study of clinical phonology.
A leading book on clinical phonology, Articulation and Phonological Disorders was revised to keep this "classic" reference current and up-to-date. This text does not prescribe a single approach to phonological disorders but rather presents an eclectic perspective on the nature, assessment, and treatment of this communication impairment. The text includes an introduction to the normal aspects of speech sound articulation, normal phonological development, factors related to the presence of phonological disorders, the assessment and remediation of phonological disorders, phonology as it relates to language and dialectal variations.
This text is primarily concerned with those phonological disorders not etiologically associated with known or obvious sensory, structural, or neuromotor deficits.
Updated fully in its Second Edition, Articulatory and Phonological Impairments provides students with a clinical framework that encompasses basic terms and concepts, phonetic transcription, and theoretical perspectives extensively applied to clinical examples.
This text demonstrates a systematic transition from a knowledge base in clinical practice to the diagnosis and treatment of individuals with articulatory/phonological disorders.
While this text offers a thorough discussion of phonetic principles (also known as the traditional or motor approach) applied to the diagnosis and treatment of motor-based disorders, emphasis is placed on phonemic approaches. Contemporary issues such as phonological assessment, various phonemic-based therapies, and newer nonlinear/multi-linear phonologies and their role in the assessment and intervention process are treated in detail.
Designed for all who work with the heterogeneous population of students with hearing loss, Best Practices in Educational Interpreting, Second Edition, offers state-of-the-art information for interpreters in primary through higher education settings.
This text provides a comprehensive, developmentally organized overview of the process of interpreting in educational settings. Issues and methods are presented from a practical orientation, with representative cases that illustrate the topics. Readers learn about the changing needs of students are deaf and hard of hearing as they move from primary school through college. It is an ample resource as a stand-alone book and serves as a perfect supplement to a widely recognized good books library on deafness.
Now in its Fourth Edition, Born to Talk: An Introduction to Speech and Language Development traces development through real time with attention to how the various components of language are integrated in a single child's journey to adult language.
Suitable for majors and non-majors, undergraduate and graduate students alike, this text provides a comprehensive view of speech and language development written in a reader-friendly manner. In addition to a real-time presentation of speech and language development, the book contains information on theories of language development, cognitive development, the anatomy and physiology of speech, language diversity, and communication disorders. It also includes revised sections on African American English, Hispanic English, cultural diversity in the public schools, adolescent and adult language, and a much expanded section on fluency disorders.
A brief text for courses in Introduction to Communication Disorders and a supplementary text for related Communication Disorders and Sciences courses.
Case Studies in Communication Sciences and Disorders, an informative and relevant text, reflects case histories clinicians will experience in understanding numerous disorders, deficits, diseases, and disabilities associated with human communication.
Childhood Language Disorders in Context: Infancy Through Adolescence, Second Edition helps students look at childhood language disorders from multiple theoretical, etiological, and developmental perspectives. The text provides information, instructional goals, and strategies within a systems framework to guide treatment of language disorders from infancy through adolescence in the contexts of culture, family, home, school, and work. The book is divided into two parts:
In Part I, Chapter 1 presents the organizing framework. Chapter 2 differentiates speech, language, and communication and outlines language and related subsystems. It also introduces issues of cultural diversity, which are considered throughout the book. Chapter 3 describes six theoretical perspectives - biologic maturational, linguistic, behavioral, information processing, cognitive, and social interactional. Chapter 4 offers an etiological look at causes, categories and characteristics of language disorders and related conditions. Chapter 5 reviews public policy and service delivery concerns. Chapter 6 presents general strategies for relating assessments to intervention planning and progress monitoring.
In Part II, separate assessment and intervention chapters address the three developmental levels - early, middle, and late. The early stage chapters (7 and 8) cover the birth to three range. The middle stage chapters (9 and 10) cover the preschool and early elementary years. The later stage chapters (11 and 12) cover elementary years through adolescence and young adulthood. Chapter 13 addresses the communicative and language development needs of individuals with severe communicative impairments that cross the chronological age range from infancy through adolescence.
Classroom-Based Language and Literacy Intervention uses case studies to assist preservice and practicing teachers to understand the process of classroom-based support for language and literacy constructions.
Using introductory models, illustrative examples, and detailed explanations, compensatory intervention strategies are developed for each of the students presented in the case studies. The reader can then understand the goal, as well as learn the nature and implementation of the language cueing system.
Clinical Phonetics, Third Edition, is a comprehensive introduction to the art and science of clinical transcription.
The three primary strengths of Clinical Phonetics continue to be: a) authoritative coverage of the phonetics of American English, b) tested skills teaching in clinical transcription using four hours of audio examples, and c) discussion of a wealth of clinically-relevant topics throughout the text and numerous appendices.
For more than 20 years, Clinical Phonetics has been the text of choice for instructors who want their students to acquire both the academic content and the transcription skills required for responsible clinical decision making.
The third edition retains all of the materials that allow students to reach these objectives, and enhances content and format to make the learning experience even more accessible for instructors and students.
The new edition has been formatted in several ways to enhance learning, including a new text design and the availability of the training samples on audio compact discs.
In this current and well-organized text, Plante and Beeson provide an introduction to the field of communication disorders that engages students' interests in professional practice and welcomes them into the major.
This new edition retains the strong introduction to communication processes and disorders of the First Edition. The text presents a life-span perspective on disorders from infancy through geriatrics, covering both normal development and disorders. Each chapter reflects insights gained from firsthand clinical research and teaching experience across a variety of clinical populations. The focus on the professions of speech-language pathology and audiology are conveyed through clinical cases, discussion of professional issues, and vignettes of professional interactions in a variety of work settings. This broad-based introduction presents the range of content central to the professions, yet maintains a consistent, easy-to-comprehend style and unified voice.
Communication Sciences and Disorders: An Introduction, introduces students to the field in a clear and succinct manner that allows access to the most current theories, research, and practices through rich examples and anecdotes. It employs a clinical case-based, life-span approach with special attention given to:
This is the first book in this field to examine computers and their impact on the study and practice of speech-language pathology and audiology. It introduces students to the multitude of ways that speech-language pathologists and audiologists have used computers to provide clinical services more efficiently and more cost-effectively. With this information, students will be better able to adequately promote the welfare of the persons they serve professionally in the managed health care, cost-containment environment in which they are likely to be required to practice in the near future.
This new book represents a thorough update of Hearing Assessment, Second Edition, while retaining the informative and important basic chapters dealing with fundamental concepts of clinical audiology. It also provides new data on the more complex and sometimes controversial assessment procedures critical to the practice of contemporary audiology. Comprehensive explanations of various aspects of diagnostics are brought to the reader by authorities in their areas of specialization.
While the clinical procedures of some topics (e.g. pure tone audiometry, clinical masking, etc.) have changed little in the past decade, other topics (evoked potentials, otoacoustic emissions, etc.) have continued to evolve and expand largely due to the scientific emphasis placed on these topics. As a consequence, the scope and magnitude of some chapters are proportionately greater than others. This book maintains a clear focus on auditory assessment throughout topics.
Counseling in Audiologic Practice guides the practicing audiologist or the audiology student in the mastery of counseling skills to meet the needs of patients and families suffering from hearing loss.
This text examines the range of emotions experienced by parents following the diagnosis of pediatric hearing loss as well as the less recognized emotional impact accompanying adult hearing loss. Discussion based upon counseling theory reveals the variety of dynamics within audiologists' interactions with patients to help clinicians more completely address the personal adjustment/support counseling needs of individuals, families, and groups as well as those approaching audiologic services from within the context of a culturally divergent background.
Deaf People: Evolving Perspectives from Psychology, Education, and Sociology is an examination of the psychology of the deaf community through history, current topics, and the personal experiences of the authors, two of whom are Deaf.
This text provides a unique perspective in that the topic--psychology and deaf people--is typically presented through the hearing person's perspective. The deaf person's perspective, as this book demonstrates, is important because it is the deaf community that is most impacted by the decisions professionals make, whether in school, in the clinic, or in the family. Case studies are presented throughout the text to demonstrate real-life issues and end-of-chapter study questions help reinforce chapter concepts.
Deaf People: Evolving Perspectives from Psychology, Education, and Sociology is an examination of the psychology of the deaf community through history, current topics, and the personal experiences of the authors, two of whom are Deaf.
This text provides a unique perspective in that the topic-psychology and deaf people-is typically presented through the hearing person's perspective. The deaf person's perspective, as this book demonstrates, is important because it is the deaf community that is most impacted by the decisions professionals make, whether in school, in the clinic, or in the family. Case studies are presented throughout the text to demonstrate real-life issues and end-of-chapter study questions help reinforce chapter concepts.
The sixth edition of The Development of Language, written and contributed to by leading researchers, covers language acquisition and development from infancy through to adulthood.
The sixth edition of this authoritative text is ideal for courses that take a developmental approach to language acquisition across the life span. The text thoroughly explores syntax, morphology, semantics, phonology, and pragmatics. It examines atypical development, presents strong coverage of individual differences, how and why they occur, and provides contemporary references and the most recent research findings. The panel of expert authors provides students with cutting-edge research knowledge in an interesting and highly readable format.
The emphasis on change over the life span is even more important now than it was when the text was originally published, since it reinforces current developments in cognitive neuroscience that indicate language, once acquired, is not static, but rather, undergoes constant neural reorganization.
The Sixth Edition of Diagnosis and Evaluation in Speech Pathology continues to be the leading text in its field, providing a practical process approach to diagnosing and evaluating speech and language disorders.
This easy-to-read, yet comprehensive resource provides a strong foundation of diagnosis and evaluation for students in training and clinicians alike. It develops a rationale for each type of assessment, including both standardized and non-standardized approaches. This text is ideal for practitioners and clinicians who are struggling to stay in tune with the rapidly changing field of Speech Language Pathology.
Practical, non-technical text in counseling the hearing-impaired and their families.
This review manual uses illustrative case histories and review-and-question style to give students feedback on their level of understanding about audiology before they enter the examination process.
Designed to accompany any audiology textbook or set of lecture notes, this text gives students a brief overview of twenty different topics in audiology, followed by a series of questions with answers. It employs different learning strategies such as matching, labeling, and outlining. Solving a series of case studies with the audiometric and historical information provided helps students access higher levels of learning.
The Fourth Edition of Evaluating Research in Communicative Disorders explains and discusses how to read, understand, and evaluate research published in communicative disorders and sciences journals.
This text is broken down into three parts. Part I introduces the basic principles for evaluating research, Part II contains a excerpts from journal articles and Part III presents two complete articles for student evaluation accompanied by an evaluation checklist to guide the student in the evaluation process.
Numerous examples from current research to illustrate and clarify points made in the text. The book is richly illustrated with tables and figures and includes many study questions to guide students through primary sources in the research literature.
The Fifth Edition of Evaluating Research in Communicative Disorders explains and discusses how to read, understand, and evaluate research published in communicative sciences and disorders journals.
This text is organized into three parts. Part I introduces the basic principles for evaluating research, Part II contains excerpts from journal articles, and Part III presents two complete articles and an evaluation checklist to guide the student in the evaluation process.
Numerous examples from current research are incorporated into the text to illustrate and clarify points made throughout. The book is richly illustrated with tables and figures and includes many study questions to lead students through primary sources in the research literature.
Evoked Potential Audiometry: Fundamentals and Applications provides a clear understanding of the fundamentals of auditory averaged evoked potentials (AEP) and how they are applied in any clinical environment. Little background is required for understanding the principles and procedures discussed. The authors, who are experienced clinicians, teachers, and researchers, use consistent terms, concepts, recommendations, and abbreviations throughout the book.
This book puts emphasis on the relevance of evoked potential audiometry (EPA) to Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology while providing basic information needed for clinicians applying their knowledge in a more medically or psychologically oriented environment. The book deals with practical as well as technical matters and includes a section on laboratory management, patient management, and report writing. References were selected to provide a good historic background as well as a sample of more contemporary writings.
Exploring Communication Disorders: A 21st Century Introduction through Literature and Media takes an extremely novel approach to the subject by incorporating personalities and characters from literature and movie media throughout the text.
The text is comprehensive enough to fulfill the requirements of an intro course, with each communication disorder addressed from the clinical and scientific perspectives including diagnostic and treatment information.
Using the media and literature references as an introduction, the text explores a comprehensive introduction to the communication disorders discipline. Movies, television programs, books, and a Broadway play that have characters with communication disorders are studied. There are also references to well-known singers, actors, politicians, writers, radio personalities, and other people in the media, with an emphasis on their particular communication disorders.
Because this text may be used as an introductory text, the final chapter, in a question-and-answer format, addresses the clinical and educational requirements to enter the professions of speech-language pathology and audiology, salaries, job opportunities, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), and more.
For Introductory Audiology courses for Communication Disorders majors and non-majors.
Introducing Foundations of Audiology, a concise version of the fundamental aspects of audiology and audiometry. Designed for students who need an understanding of the topic as part of their professional career in speech-language pathology, nursing, or other health care professions, this new textbook provides students who are new to the topic and discipline with the information they need to succeed. The authors give readers a review of the audiology profession, the basics of sound, normal hearing function, and the causes and effects of hearing loss. It then covers a thorough explanation of audiometry, screening programs, and special procedures for difficult to test populations. The textbook concludes with a chapter summarizing rehabilitation and approaches to intervention. Keeping the focus on the relevant information that is consistent with the length and scope of a typical introductory course, Fundamentals of Audiology takes a potentially complex and involved subject and presents in in a readable, accessible manner.
Centered on a strong foundation of hands-on experience, this text is designed to help instructors provide their students with the most current topics and theories related to phonetics and phonetic transcription.
This practical introduction to linguistic phonetics focuses on teaching students the skills necessary for expert phonetic transcription of individuals with disordered speech. Through an abundance of exercises and available recordings, this text makes the learning of phonetics clear, systematic, and easy. Without auditory examples, it is difficult for instructors to describe and explain dialects and difficult for students to understand some topics associated with speech production - such as word stress and producing certain speech sounds. This text emphasizes issues tied to linguistic phonetics with an introduction to clinical phonetics, and issues involving dialectal variation of speech, a topic missing (or dated) in most texts.
Fundamentals of Sound with Applications to Speech and Hearing presents a clear and precise treatment of the physics of sound while using a level of math suitable for readers in the speech, language, hearing, and health sciences.
This text provides undergraduate students with an understanding of the science of sound. Simple mathematics, graphics, and qualitative descriptions are demonstrated to explain wave concepts, spectrograms, intensity, and decibels. Concepts are applied to the physics of speech and hearing.
The graphical approach is supplemented by animations available on an associated Web site containing a complete tutorial with questions that the student can answer. Hints and textual references are given if the wrong answer is chosen and a complete explanation of the question is provided.
*Designed for courses relating to children with hearing impairments generally titled Pediatric Audiology or Hearing Disorders in Children. *Modern approach to pediatric audiology written by some of the leading authorities in diagnostics and rehabilitation for children with hearing impairments. *It is well-written, flows smoothly from chapter to chapter, and includes state-of-the-art approaches that are clearly outlined for the novice and yet interesting and helpful to the practicing clinician.
In Hearing Disorders, 3/e the author has brought together health care professionals and basic scientists who provide new information for readers at all levels of expertise. This book will often be the easiest reference source for audiologists, educators, physicians, persons with hearing loss, parents of hearing-handicapped children and hearing-aid dispensers alike.
This edition continues exploring the underlying nature of communication problems by explaining current theory and research while introducing students to the "nuts and bolts" of clinical therapy.
The leading book on the market for introductory courses in communication disorders, Human Communication Disorders continues to cover a broad range of topics at a level appropriate for students. Experts in speech-language pathology and audiology place disorders in perspective, define basic theories of causation, introduce identifying characteristics, and present an overview of procedures for evaluation and treatment. Coverage of cultural and linguistic diversity as well as evidence-based practice reflects current trends in the discipline.
Interactive Audiology is a CD-ROM developed to assist both undergraduate and graduate students in audiology courses and professionals wishing to review their knowledge of audiology.
The best and most modern method for reviewing knowledge of audiology and preparing for exams, this CD-ROM is to assure that the student/clinician has understood the concepts of audiology needed for university, state, and national examinations. A significant advantage to the digital presentation of this material is that users can benefit from repeated use.
This CD features a number of interactive features. Users can navigate through the CD and complete exercises that involve text entry, drag-and-drop content/objects, vocabulary skills, and multiple choice selection. Multiple choice questions are presented in a random fashion for repeated use. Users benefit from confirmation, feedback on demand, and further elaboration of content materials presented in exercises. They can carry out such exercises as labeling, matching, drawing audiograms, diagramming, outline completions, working crossword puzzles, etc.
Users can also determine the correct diagnosis of 15 different hearing disorders (lesion sites) based on history, audiometric information and other clues. They can then justify their case management decisions and receive feedback on the accuracy of these decisions. A series of demonstrations in the form of short videos illustrate a wide variety of audiological issues that would require many pages of text to describe. The cross-platform CD-ROM can be used with many types of computers.
This much anticipated Fourth Edition is the most current text available for preparing students for work in the area of audiologic rehabilitation.
This highly regarded text has been extensively updated and revised. The text begins with eight chapters introducing the fundamentals-amplification, including cochlear implants, auditory and visual stimuli, speech and language, and educational and psychosocial issues. Two comprehensive methods and procedures chapters follow, focusing on children, adults, and elderly adults. Finally, the well-documented and amply illustrated text concludes with two case study chapters.
Now in its Fifth Edition, this text represents the most respected, current, and leading Aural Rehabilitation (AR) text in the field!
This highly regarded text has been substantially updated and revised, making it more user-friendly for both students and instructors. It is especially current in areas dealing with hearing aids, cochlear implants, and current approaches to providing relevant AR. The text begins with eight chapters introducing the fundamentals-amplification, including cochlear implants, auditory and visual stimuli, speech and language, and educational and psychosocial issues. Two comprehensive methods and procedures chapters follow, focusing on children, adults, and elderly adults. Finally, the well-documented and amply illustrated text concludes with two case study chapters.
This is the leading text for the introduction to hearing and hearing disorders course required of all Speech Language Pathology and Audiology majors.
Introduction to Audiology, Ninth Edition, provides in-depth coverage of the physics of sound, anatomy, and physiology of the auditory system; causes and treatment of hearing disorders; and relevant diagnostic and therapeutic techniques. It emphasizes the proper evaluation of hearing disorders and the treatment avenues available for these disorders. The accompanying CD-ROM features a wide variety of interactive exercises, actual case studies, eighteen videos illustrating many theoretical and research concepts, demonstrations, an extensive literature section with useful forms, ear pathology slides, a review manual, and much more.
In order to assess their knowledge of the basic facts and concepts of audiology, students can use this book, either on its own, or in conjunction with any main text as a comprehensive review of the types of information covered in the ASHA examination. It can also be used as a primary source book for graduate students and professionals. This new edition features three new chapters that correspond to chapters in Martin's textbook, Introduction to Audiology.
The new edition of this popular text provides an excellent overview of the variety of populations of children who have language disorders.
Organized by common childhood language disorder populations, this completely updated text is about children who do not acquire language normally. An introductory text primarily for students who are learning about children with language disorders, it provides the most current information available. It includes excellent coverage of adolescents with language disorders and a complete chapter on AAC and its consideration with children with language disorders. The information on intervention has been expanded and updated.
Introduction to Communication Disorders: A Life Span Perspective, Second Edition, is a comprehensive overview of the fields of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology written in an interesting and highly readable manner.
This text catalogs and discusses each disorder with an emphasis on how the disorder impacts the individual. It serves as a foundation by providing many viewpoints for the introductory student, offering personal stories from people with communication disorders, and examining the field from a life span perspective. In addition, the best models of good practice and approaches for assessment and intervention are discussed based on the authors' own clinical experiences. Each chapter describes a specific disorder, related assessment and applicable intervention methods. Each disorder is also illustrated by the personal story of an individual with that disorder. More than merely a catalog, Introduction to Communication Disorders brings students into the daily lives of individuals who suffer from a disorder.
Introduction to Communication Disorders: A Life Span Perspective, Third Edition,is a comprehensive overview of the fields of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, written in an appealing and highly readable manner.
This text catalogs and discusses each disorder with an emphasis on how the disorder impacts the individual. It serves as a foundation by providing many viewpoints for the introductory student, offering personal stories from people with communication disorders and examining the field from a lifespan perspective. In addition, the text discusses the best models of good practice and approaches for assessment and intervention based on the authors' own clinical experiences. Each chapter describes a specific disorder, related assessment, and applicable intervention methods. Each disorder is also illustrated by the personal story of an individual with that disorder. More than merely a catalog, Introduction to Communication Disorders, Third Edition, brings students into the daily lives of individuals who suffer from a disorder.
This introductory text provides a life-span perspective on organic and neurogenic disorders of communication. The text presents current theories in the context of clinical practice and combines a medical approach to communication disorders with emphasis on educational, social and cultural factors. Chapters focus on both traditional areas of practice as well as on new and expanded areas. Each chapter is based on current research and theory, which provides a solid and comprehensive framework for understanding these communication problems.
Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology: From Concepts to Transcription provides readers with a basic foundation in both phonetics and phonology. The book has two goals: the first is to connect phonetics and phonology into a conceptual unity and the second is to demonstrate the practical relevance of phonetics, phonology, and phonetic transcription for beginning students in communication disorders and related disciplines, such as linguistics or education.
Written with an abundance of real-life examples, this first edition provides readers with a large base of information, from the basic definitions of phonetics and phonology to their practical, clinical applications when analyzing speech samples, demonstrating to future speech language practioners the interconnection between these two areas of of the field. The text's uniqueness lies in the continuous application of the presented information to practical examples, reinforcing to students the relevance of this knowledge to clinical practice while providing the instructor with practical examples which can be used to demonstrate basic principles.
An important feature of this book is the inclusion of a phonetic transcription workbook. This workbook guides the student through a systematic learning process beginning with the identification of sounds within words, as opposed to letters, to transcribing multisyllabic words and short phrases. The process is a step-by-step one in which vowels and consonants are introduced in small groups, words are selected based on these sounds, followed by listening and transcription practice. Additional sounds are added systematically and each unit builds upon the next. The workbook will provide the student with many opportunities to learn phonetic transcription in an orderly process.
Additional coverage includes:
Written by leading experts in the field, Language and Reading Disabilities, Second Edition, is the most up-to-date book on the nature and treatment of reading disabilities.
Increased evidence has continued to mount in support of the language basis of reading disabilities, and much has been learned in the past decade about how children learn to read. With a strong clinical and research basis, the book provides a broad perspective of language problems associated with reading disabilities. It includes the latest theories of reading development, causes of reading disabilities, developmental changes in reading disabilities, and theoretically-motivated research to improve phonological processing, decoding, comprehension, writing, and spelling abilities.
The book compares spoken and written language and notes similarities and differences. The acquisition of reading and reading-related language abilities is discussed. In the second half of the book, recognized experts in the areas of assessment and remediation of reading and writing disorders discuss the identification, assessment, and treatment of reading and writing disorders.
For introductory courses in Language Development.
Introducing Language Development From Theory to Practice, a fresh and welcome addition to the field of language development. This new market entry is a timely text that uses evidence-based practices to emphasize the research foundations of language development, builds reader comprehension with a developmental approach to language, promotes awareness of how culture interacts with language development and children of diverse backgrounds, and uses technology to enhance the learner's experience. In addition to providing a multidisciplinary survey of language development from birth to adulthood, this text includes chapter inserts which focus on bridging theory with clinical and educational practice, highlights multicultural considerations, and describes research methodology in language development. Instructors will appreciate the instructors' manual, which includes discussion items, chapter summaries, and a bank of assessment questions, and students will value the companion website, which includes reflection questions and study items for each chapter, as well as additional web links to sites of interest.
Combining a strong multicultural emphasis with an effective blend of research and practice, this introductory textbook is unique to the field of speech-pathology.
Language Disorders in Children, 1/e is written in an engaging and easy-to-read style and provides a valuable foundation for students with little to no background in language disorders. Unparalleled in the field for its emphasis on child language disorders through a culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) perspective, this text devotes several chapters exclusively to serving children from CLD backgrounds.
Strongly grounded in research with a focus on evidence-based practice, this text examines the full scope of language disorders in children, and offers several pedagogical devices within the text which help students interact with and learn the material.
Clearly written, well organized, and comprehensive, Language Development is the most widely used text in its field.
In recognition of the tremendous language variations among children, the Sixth Edition of this highly readable text devotes significant space to individual developmental differences and cultural differences. Discussion of other cultures is included in the text wherever possible. In addition, the sections on culturally linguistically diverse children accurately reflect the realities of everyday life in the United States. Developed within a practical chronological framework, the Sixth Edition examines every aspect of syntax, morphology, semantics, phonology, and pragmatics. As in previous editions, Owens presents even the most complex, technical concepts at an appropriate level for beginning students.
Clearly written, well organized, and comprehensive, Language Development is the most widely used text in its field.
In recognition of the tremendous language variations among children, the Sixth Edition of this highly readable text devotes significant space to individual developmental differences and cultural differences. Discussion of other cultures is included in the text wherever possible. In addition, the sections on culturally linguistical diverse children accurately reflect the realities of everyday life in the United States. Developed within a practical chronological framework, the Sixth Edition examines every aspect of syntax, morphology, semantics, phonology, and pragmatics. As in previous editions, Owens presents even the most complex, technical concepts at an appropriate level for beginning students.
With a comprehensive view of evidence-based assessment and treatment of language disorders in children, this text presents treatment procedures in clear and simple language.
Useful for students, instructors, and practicing clinicians, Language Disorders in Children: An Evidence-Based Approach to Assessment and Treatment provides an all-encompassing look at the treatment of language disorders in various clinical populations, including children with autism, developmental disability, hearing loss, and neurogolical involvement.
Language Disorders is a comprehensive discussion of language disorders and clinical practice that takes students from model, through disorders, to assessment and intervention, with an emphasis on classroom application.
This text takes a functional, environmental, and conversational approach by using the child's natural environment and conversational partners. Unlike other language disorders texts that have a disorder-specific focus, this text takes a logical traverse from assessment through intervention.
This new edition is completely updated with current trends and developments in the field and is full of practical ideas and useful suggestions for students and speech-language pathologists. The text provides concrete guidelines and procedures for the assessment and training of children as well as training for speech-language pathologists.
Learning American Sign Language: Levels I & II--Beginning & Intermediate, Second Edition, is a major revision of the First Edition, designed to help learners successfully interact with deaf American Sign Language (ASL) users.
Written by two leading authorities in the field, the text is used as the basic text for a one-semester or full-year course in ASL. Lessons are structured around language needed for common-life situations, and examples are presented in the form of dialogues coupled with grammar and vocabulary instruction. Information is also included about the culture of Deaf people in the United States. The book is supported by a new videotape and an instructor's manual.
For graduate and upper-level courses in Educational Psychology.
This text introduces future educators and researchers to several different psychological perspectives and uses these perspectives to introduce key issues such as knowledge acquisition and transfer, strategic process, and student motivation. As an editor and reviewer of the top journals in the field, the author is able to present the latest research in language that is accessible and understandable. Unlike other texts that are organized around theoretical topics valued by psychologists, it is organized around education problems and issues deemed important by educators.
This is the only available text that presents a comprehensive, balanced view of deafness and literacy. It provides many examples of instructional techniques and presents the theoretical and research rationale for such techniques. The text discusses literacy in light of clinical and cultural perspectives on deafness. Explanations of some of the major theoretical foundations of literacy and deafness are presented clearly and with detail; metatheories, theories, and research data are discussed in an accessible style. Coverage on reading and writing in English as a first and as a second language for hearing students and for students with severe to profound hearing impairment. The text also introduces students to the new, compelling ideas in literary critical fields, which are necessary for understanding the call for ASL / English bilingual programs and notions as empowerment, accessibility, and oppression as they relate to deaf individuals.
Written for graduate students and practicing clinicians, the New Handbook for Auditory Evoked Responses is an up-to-date and comprehensive source of practical information about auditory evoked responses, from electro-cochleography to cortical responses.
Authored by a leading clinical audiologist who records auditory evoked responses daily in his clinical practice, this text maintains a consistent writing-style and difficulty level from beginning to end. The content is of direct interest to clinical audiologists and others involved in the clinical measurement of auditory evoked responses. The text includes extensive review of test principles, protocols, and procedures required for clinical application of auditory evoked responses. The practical coverage of material includes guidelines for trouble-shooting and solving problems commonly encountered in the field.
Patterns of Narrative Discourse: A Multicultural, Lifespan Approach educates professionals about the features of narrative discourse from a multicultural perspective.
This text is intended for speech-language pathologists, early childhood specialists, elementary and high school educators, as well as students in these disciplines. The authors seek to prevent misdiagnoses of cultural differences as deficits. The importance of narratives for children and adults is presented with respect to literacy, education, law and medicine. Narratives from children with typical and impaired discourse development are described regarding the following cultures: European North American, African American, Spanish-speaking communities, and Asian Americans. Adult narratives are also presented from speakers with typical and impaired discourse from different cultural backgrounds. Assessment, intervention and educational considerations that take into account multicultural backgrounds are presented.
The Psychology of Neurogenic Communication Disorders: A Primer for Health Care Professionals addresses psychological adjustments in patients with neurogenic communication disorders.
This unique text covers the psychology of neurogenic communication disorders. It is written about patients who have aphasia, apraxia of speech, and/or the dysarthrias. It is intended as a guide to understanding the significant psychological adjustments many patients must undergo. Organic and biochemical factors related to brain injury and psychological reactions, coping strategies and defense mechanisms, and the responses to loss are addressed. Its non-traditional framework offers clinical vignettes and case studies to help the student understand the issues of working with clients afflicted with speech disorders resulting from neurological incidents.
Psychosocial Aspects of Deafness highlights contemporary mental health issues affecting deaf and hard of hearing individuals with overviews of topics in the fields of psychology, sociology, and deafness.
The text covers the development of one's identity, the emergence of the healthy personality, and the establishment of mental health services for deaf and hard of hearing individuals. In addition, it provides the reader with a review of assessment instruments, counseling techniques, and therapeutic models.
Family dynamics are discussed from a variety of ethnic backgrounds, reflecting the cultural diversity that is evident within the Deaf community. Furthermore, strategies for classroom management focus on enhancing the emotional growth of deaf and hard of hearing children. The broad scope of the subject matter allows flexibility and provides fresh material for new approaches to courses related to this topic within the field of deaf education. Contemporary theories concerning social development and sexual behaviors are discussed and applied to this diverse community.
This book challenges leaders, educators and researchers to grapple with the realities of education politics and to act as positive advocates for social justice.
This text offers strategies for educators to understand and take charge of education politics and includes a range of new approaches to study politics. Each chapter is organized to provide frameworks and findings from traditional to new theories and methodologies and political strategies. The entire text is oriented toward building critiquing skills, modeling successful political strategies, and doing politics differently to empower educators and researchers.
Important coverage of race, gender, sexuality, globalism, and other multicultural issues within the study of politics is integrated throughout the text. This text is also rich with pedagogical features such as exercises that build skills and vignettes that illustrate how educators make decisions and successfully take charge of political situations.
This book focuses on using and conducting clinical research. Students are taught single-subject research methodologies required for documenting the impact of intervention on clients for employers and medical insurance programs. In addition, students are taught how to interpret and critically evaluate the data analyses and conclusions of studies in which descriptive and inferential statistics are used.
From one of the best-known authorities in research and research to practice issues comes an important text for teaching research methods and applications. An interactive writing style with technology notes throughout allows instructors to teach content, methods, and evaluation. Application examples and study questions provide many opportunities for formative and summative assessment of student learning.
This text provides a comprehensive overview of the best practices for organization and management of school-based speech-language pathology programs.
Unlike other books that focus on implementing specific therapy approaches for various disabilities, this book provides a wealth of information, recommendations, and concrete examples of how to increase the value, visibility, and relevance of the speech-language pathology program within the context of today's changing school environment.
Sign Language Interpreting: Exploring Its Art and Science is a comprehensive exploration of the practice and research relating to sign language interpreting.
A pleasant, conversational style of writing is used to present the problems, issues, and options in this field as they are best known today. The text nurtures a rational discourse that will enhance the development of professional interpreting in ways that will satisfy participants. The reader is taken on a journey from the early days of interpreting, to the professionalization of interpreters, to an examination of past and present models of interpreting. Two models are introduced that take into account the influence of all participants and environmental factors in a variety of interpreting situations. The business and ethical aspects of interpreting are discussed while focusing on current practice. The text introduces first-time users to sign language and how it affects interpreting. For those knowledgeable about sign language interpreting, it gathers together a wealth of previously scattered materials. For scholars and researchers, it directs their attention to new areas for study.
Speech Scienceintegrates scientific material on the acoustics, anatomy, and physiology of speech production and perception with state-of-the-art instrumental techniques used in clinical practice.
Each chapter presenting theoretical information is followed by a corresponding chapter on clinical application, demonstrating the connections between scientific theory and clinical management of communication disorders. To reinforce this link, case studies and questions in each clinical application chapter help students focus on how scientific principles are applied in clinical contexts.
Call-out notes, summary points, and review questions help students consolidate material for improved retention. Schematic illustrations enhance the text and demonstrate anatomical and functional relationships between structures. With this student- and instructor-friendly text, students will find theoretical information meaningful, less intimidating, and more easily accessible.
This new resource describes the language of African American children, contrasts it from disordered communication, and recommends applications that are practical for working with African American children in the classroom. It provides a broad context to increase understanding of differences, and how these differences affect teachers, teaching, learning and academic outcomes of African American students. It examines these differences vs. deficits and disorders and discusses the overrepresentation of Black males in special education programs. Positive ways of understanding, teaching and recognizing Black children's language, culture, and learning styles are covered. Clashes between Black children's home expectations and school expectations are illustrated. Examples are given on how to bridge this gap in a culturally sensitive and effective manner.
Stuttering Therapy: Rationale and Procedures provides students and professionals explicit descriptions of therapy procedures and their necessary rationale based on research and clinical experience.
This comprehensive text begins with basic background information about speech fluency and the nature of stuttering. It is unique among texts on stuttering therapy in that it includes a chapter providing analyses of eight areas of research, followed immediately by the implications of these findings for evaluation and treatment. Five chapters on assessment and treatment of all age groups carry out a main theme of relating research knowledge to clinical procedures. A final chapter focuses on a reframing of the processes of counseling and stuttering therapy.
Drawing on the authors' broad experience working together over a thirty-year period, evaluation is described with reference to the factors contributing to or maintaining a problem, resulting in individual subject profiles. Three separate chapters cover early intervention during preschool years, treatment of school-age children, and therapy for teenagers and adults.
This text features the extensive description of practical procedures, utilizing examples and case studies. The strengthening of self-concept and raising the level of self-esteem are viewed as the cornerstone of all behavioral, cognitive, and affective change.
Firmly rooted in research, The Supervisory Process in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology is an update of Jean L. Anderson's seminal work by the same name and proves to be a practical guide for supervision at all stages of development.
While preserving the essential and unique text from Anderson's work, this text is a practical and immediately applicable resource for supervisors and supervisees. The now classic Continuum Model and its stages of supervision developed by Anderson form the foundation of this text. Each stage is fully explicated in its own chapter and is accompanied by strategies and tools to implement it. Research findings and information generated since the publication of the Anderson text are integrated into existing chapters. The effect is a cohesive discussion of Anderson's model that will support the professional practice of supervisors in speech-language pathology and audiology as well as professionals in allied health and education.
The contemporary format of this new text includes a new chapter on the supervision of speech-language pathology assistants, attention to new ASHA training standards (effective in 2005), and case studies and practical tools that make it useful for supervisors in any setting and level of practice. The final chapters of the text demonstrate the model's use in the preparation and continuing professional education of supervisors.
This thoroughly updated text is written especially for future language interventionists and special education teachers who will work on collaborative teams in public settings.
Supporting Children with Communication Difficulties in Inclusive Settings, Second Edition, teaches an innovative service delivery model where parents and professionals share expertise and responsibility for maximizing and supporting language and communicative competence in classrooms with wide ability and cultural, racial/ethnic, linguistic, and economic diversity. It provides step-by-step directions and hands-on activities to give students practice in applying the procedures. The writing is clear and does not assume that the student has had previous courses or knowledge in speech-language intervention. The content offers basic strategies to assess, plan for, teach, and evaluate language and communication.
This text emphasizes the technical and scientific aspects of the practice of audiology, blended with other essential humanistic skills-active listening, empathy, client/family-centered protocols and collaboration with family members and other professionals.
This book helps students develop the skills needed to address the needs of clients as human beings and as individuals who have communication disorders.
The authors specifically address importance of audiology knowledge for the scope of practice in both speech-lanugage pathology and audiology. This text is written to be a resource for the student of audiology and speech-language pathology long after the course is completed.
Written by two audiologists with more than 20 years of combined teaching experience, information in the text is presented in very clear, understandable language and is organized based on first-hand knowledge of formats that will be most useful to students. Because the authors also have nearly 40 years of combined clinical experience, the text is full of illustrative examples to futher reinforce concepts introduced.
The best-selling voice text with the most complete voice treatment material in the field has a new look and a new sound, with a new DVD that brings voice problems and therapy to life for students.
The Voice and Voice Therapy, Seventh Edition, text boasts the most up-to-date facilitation techniques and the best tested clinical stimulation approaches available today. The new companion DVD illustrates voice problems in children and adults, as well as methods of relevant therapy, enabling students to see and hear what they are reading about.
The Seventh Edition divides voice disorders into three causal areas (functional, organic, and neurogenic) with a separate chapter devoted to each area. Evaluation procedures are then presented with some emphasis given to particular evaluation strategies for identified causal areas. The smooth transition between these areas reinforces student understanding. Disorders not often addressed-including sulcus vocalis, muscle tension dysphonia, and paradoxial vocal fold dysfunction-are also covered in this text.
Facilitating approaches presented in table form detail when a particular approach is useful, list the sequence of therapy steps for that approach, and illustrate the outcome by presenting the approach with a particular patient. These therapy approaches are also illustrated on the DVD, making the therapy process come alive.
The best-selling voice text with the most complete voice treatment material in the field has a new look and a new sound, with a new DVD that brings voice problems and therapy to life for students.
The Voice and Voice Therapy, Seventh Edition, text boasts the most up-to-date facilitation techniques and the best tested clinical stimulation approaches available today. The new companion DVD illustrates voice problems in children and adults, as well as methods of relevant therapy, enabling students to see and hear what they are reading about.
The Seventh Edition divides voice disorders into three causal areas (functional, organic, and neurogenic) with a separate chapter devoted to each area. Evaluation procedures are then presented with some emphasis given to particular evaluation strategies for identified causal areas. The smooth transition between these areas reinforces student understanding. Disorders not often addressedincluding sulcus vocalis, muscle tension dysphonia, and paradoxial vocal fold dysfunctionare also covered in this text.
Facilitating approaches presented in table form detail when a particular approach is useful, list the sequence of therapy steps for that approach, and illustrate the outcome by presenting the approach with a particular patient. These therapy approaches are also illustrated on the DVD, making the therapy process come alive.