The Handbook of Language and Speech Disorders

List of Figures.Notes on Contributors.Introduction.Part I Foundations.1 Social and Practial Considerations in Labeling.2 Diversity Considerations in Speech and Language Disorders.3 Intervention for Children with Auditory or Visual Sensory Impairments.4 Intelligibility Impairments.5 Genetic Syndromes and Communication Disorders.6 Principles of Assessment and Intervention.Part II Language Disorders.7 Autism Spectrum Disorders: The State of the Art.8 Delayed Language Development in Preschool Children.9 Specific Language Impairment.10 Pragmatic Impairment.11 Learning Disabilities.12 Reading and Reading Impairments.13 Substance Abuse and Childhood Language Disorders.14 Aphasia.Part III Speech Disorders.15 Children with Speech Sound Disorders.16 Dysarthria.17 Apraxia of Speech.18 Augmentative and Alternative Communication: An Introduction.19 Fluency and Fluency Disorders.20 Describing Voice Disorders.21 Orofacial Anomalies.22 Speech Disorders Related to Head and Neck Cancer: Laryngectomy, Glossectomy, and Velopharyngeal and Maxillofacial Defects.Part IV Cognitive and Intellectual Disorders.23 ADHD and Communication Disorders.24 Communication Deficits Associated with Right Hemisphere Brain Damage.25 Traumatic Brain Injury.26 Dementia.Author Index.Subject Index.

Jack S. Damico is the Doris B. Hawthorne Eminent Scholar in Communicative Disorders and Special Education at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is co-editor of the Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders and he has published over 100 peer reviewed articles and chapters in the areas of language disorders in children, literacy, aphasia in adults, discourse studies, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, language testing and qualitative methodologies. He has authored or edited 16 books, special journal issues, and manuals including Childhood Language Disorders (1995),Clinical Aphasiology: Future Directions (co-edited with Martin Ball, 2007), andSpecial Education Considerations for English Language Learners (co-authored with Else Hamayan, Barb Marler, and Cristine Sanchez-Lopez, 2007).Nicole Müller is a Hawthorne-BoRSF Endowed Professor of Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She is the founder-editor of the Journal of Multilingual Communication Disorders, and is now a co-editor of Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. She has authored and edited 10 books, and over 50 peer-reviewed articles and chapters. Among her recent books are Approaches to Discourse in Dementia (co-authored with Jackie Guendouzi, 2005), and The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics (co-edited with Martin J. Ball, Michael R. Perkins, and Sara Howard, Wiley-Blackwell, 2008).Martin J. Ball is Hawthorne-BoRSF Endowed Professor, and Director of the Hawthorne Center for Research in Communicative Disorders, at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is co-editor of the journal Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, and has authored and edited over 25 books, 40 contributions to collections, and some 80 refereed articles in academic journals. His most recent books are Clinical Sociolinguistics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005), Phonetics for Communication Disorders (co-authored with Nicole Müller, 2005), Clinical Aphasiology: Future Directions (co-edited

"Organized in four sections, this handbook providesdetailed reviews of many common speech and language disorders. Thelast three sections cover familiar topics - languagedisorders, speech disorders, cognitive/intellectual disorders.However, the introductory section, 'Foundations', isunique in that it addresses issues that are universal to any typeof disorder and its treatment, such as labeling, diversity,genetics, assessment, additional impairments, and more ...Recommended." CHOICE (February 2011)