Product Description: This volume outlines some of the developments in practical and theoretical research into speechreading lipreading that have taken place since the publication of the original "Hearing by Eye". It comprises 15 chapters by international researchers in psychology, psycholinguistics, experimental and clinical speech science, and computer engineering...read more

Product Description: This is based on oral history recordings that Miriam Garvil made with me in 1993-1994. She is now 91 years old and eager to have it published in a book. It's the story of her life beginning with her childhood in Poland, surviving the holocaust in three concentration camps, and then living with her husband and son in New York and Ann Arbor, Michigan...read more

Product Description: Mush is a Gypsy word meaning 'friend'. Mush and the Big Blue Flower is the story of a little boy who is persuaded that he has lost his voice. Unwilling to return to his mother without it, he goes looking for it. He meets a rather strange cast of characters and befriends a magical flying teapot who becomes his guide and transportation as he travels around looking for his voice and other senses, which the odd individuals he meets persuade him he is missing...read more

Product Description: The Delicate Balance is a unique and insightful resource for gerontological professionals and students. Discover valuable and poignant lessons in these first-hand accounts of the diverse therapeutic relationships encountered when counseling older adults...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This volume outlines some of the developments in practical and theoretical research into speechreading lipreading that have taken place since the publication of the original "Hearing by Eye". It comprises 15 chapters by international researchers in psychology, psycholinguistics, experimental and clinical speech science, and computer engineering...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The relationship of language to cognition, especially in development, is an issue that has occupied philosophers, psychologists, and linguists for centuries. In recent years, the scientific study of sign languages and deaf individuals has greatly enhanced our understanding of deafness, language, and cognition...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: University of Newcastle, Newcastleupon-Tyne, U.K. Text on the current investigations regarding theories on how a normal brain deals with communication from those with impaired communication systems. Softcover. 15 contributors, 2 U.S. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Broken Memories explores some of the unusual and disabling disturbances of memory or knowledge to which people have fallen prey through brain disease or accident. These patients give important glimpses into how memory functions and how knowledge is acquired and disposed...read more

Product Description: Case Studies are familiar as problem-solving devices in business and in education as well as having a traditional role in the teaching of medicine and being the mainstay of psychoanalytic research. In experimental psychology, however, case studies have only recently resurfaced as a useful way of asking questions about the structure of mind...read more