Product Description: The Aphasia Therapy Workshop brings together leading experts in the field of aphasia to address current approaches to aphasia rehabilitation. The topics in this special issue include: 1) Functional communication: Social models and psychosocial approaches 2) Technological advances : Computer - based approaches 3) Aphasia therapy duration: best when intensive and prolonged? 4) Cognitive neuropsychological approaches 5) (Psycho-) Linguistic approaches 6) Beyond language – cognitive aspects of language therapy The papers reflect the variety of approaches to treatment of aphasia and provide the reader with an update on the most current advances in our theories and practice of aphasia rehabilitation...read more

Product Description: Theory and research in aphasiology have typically concentrated on a limited population--right-handed adult monolinguals whose language uses an alphabetic code. Bilingual individuals, ideographical code users, and children (among others) have been separated out...read more

Product Description: This book presents a collection of cutting edge work from leading researchers and clinicians around the world on a range of topics within Clinical Aphasiology. However, more than this, the volume is also a tribute to Chris Code, one of the foremost scholars in the field...read more

Product Description: New Edition of the BestsellerPraise for the Second Edition:"Easy to read...chapters are well written...relevant and valuable...can be used as introductory literature...as well as provide refreshing readings for clinicians in the field...read more

Product Description: Gliomas, which comprise astrocytic, oligodendroglial, and ependymal lesions, are the most frequent primary intracranial tumors. This volume summarizes the enormous advances in our knowledge of gliomas that have occurred during recent years...read more

This work brings together a selection of Clinical Forum features from the journal "Aphasiology". The fora are designed to cover issues in clinical aphasiology which are central, topical and controversial. Each forum concerns a main article and a number of commentaries.

Product Description: The Aphasia Therapy Workshop brings together leading experts in the field of aphasia to address current approaches to aphasia rehabilitation. The topics in this special issue include: 1) Functional communication: Social models and psychosocial approaches 2) Technological advances : Computer - based approaches 3) Aphasia therapy duration: best when intensive and prolonged? 4) Cognitive neuropsychological approaches 5) (Psycho-) Linguistic approaches 6) Beyond language – cognitive aspects of language therapy The papers reflect the variety of approaches to treatment of aphasia and provide the reader with an update on the most current advances in our theories and practice of aphasia rehabilitation...read more

Product Description: This special issue of Aphasiology examines the issues of access and inclusion as experienced by people with aphasia. A comprehensive editorial introduces the seven papers drawn from four different countries, and the issue reflects a balance of theoretical papers, detailed descriptions of access in practice, and research reports...read more

Product Description: Fully updated and expanded, the second edition of this popular text covers all the main causes of acquired speech and language disorders in childhood. 25 cases of children with these disorders are described and their management explained in detail, most from onset and including long term outcomes...read more

Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The First Annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference (CAC) was convened in Albuquerque in 1971. It was attended by a small group of primarily practicing clinicians dedicated to meeting the human service needs of their clients, while recognizing the importance of contributing to the collective knowledge base of their discipline by providing empirical evidence supporting the links between their clinical interventions and outcomes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The papers that appear in this volume were drawn from presentations at the 30th Annual Clinical Aphasiology Conference in Waikoloa Beach, Hawaii, USA, in May 2000. Acceptance of a paper from the CAC conference indicates that the paper has met the standards of Aphasiology and the rigours of merit review that represent the journal...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of papers provides some new perspectives on communication disorders after traumatic brain injury (TBI). New empirical data, reviews of existing studies and clinical observation form the basis of the commentaries each of which attempts to consider communication impairments after TBI in context...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The book consists of two parts, a theoretical and an empirical section. In the theoretical section the reader is thoroughly introduced to the wide field of aphasiology. Different causes of aphasia are described and illustrated in some detail...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Two viewpoints on pragmatics are of interest to the clinician and researcher: The various types of deficits of pragmatic competence in different neurogenic communication disorders on the one hand, and the use of pragmatic features as a compensatory strategy to supplement impaired linguistic competence on the other...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: ...contains a wide variety of stimulating material to help clients to improve functional conversational skills for both responding and interacting at home and in the community. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Presents different and competing theories about the nature of agrammatism and the relevance of cross-linguistic variation for grammatic theory. The text discusses lexical semantic processing in different patient groups to explore the underlying cognitive processes and the contribution of the right hemisphere...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)