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Product Description: Children’s Intonation is a practical guide that focuses on the nature, causes and assessment of intonation problems for children and adolescents. Highlighting the importance of intonation for everyday conversational interaction and the implications of this for teaching and therapy contexts, this book addresses the following questions: How and when do children learn to use intonation for the purposes of interaction?  As children get older, does intonation become more important or less important for communication? How might intonation be used to support or compensate for other aspects of language? What are the implications for practitioners, parents and caregivers when interacting with young children? Clinically oriented, this book explores these questions through case studies that cover a range of developmental communication difficulties including autism spectrum disorders, hearing impairment and specific speech and language difficulties...read more

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The Sixth Edition of Diagnosis and Evaluation in Speech Pathology continues to be the leading book in its field, providing a practical process approach to diagnosing and evaluating speech and language disorders. This book Introduces diagnosis and evaluation as a process conducted in the context of an interpersonal relationship between clinician and client. Case examples that illustrate the concepts covered in the bookt and allow readers to apply ideas in a real-world context are incorporated throughout. Each chapter highlights the most updated and current literature, clinical procedures, and technological advances. Market: For professionals entering the field of speech pathology and anyone else interested in this field.

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Product Description: Note: This text does not come with the audio cd. To order the 3 audio CD set, use ISBN 013403306X. To order the audio CD packaged with this text, use ISBN 0134204816.   Here is a clear, systematic introduction to the fundamentals of linguistic phonetics with a total learning package designed to help students become proficient in phonetics and phonetic transcription...read more

Product Description: Caroline Bowen’s Children’s Speech Sound Disorders will be welcomed by experienced and novice clinicians, clinical educators, and students in the field of speech-language pathology/speech and language therapy for its practical, clinical focus...read more

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Doehring provides useful information for planning, understanding, and evaluating research in human communication disorders. This important volume, now in its third edition, describes the methods used in various forms of research designs. A new section on authentic assessment in chapter 16, a revised section in chapter 19 on structural equation modeling, an expansion of chapter 21 to include an example of research strategies, and a new chapter (20) that describes methods for evaluation are some of the improvements made to this edition. Part I describes the group research methods most commonly used in research on human communication disorders. Equal attention is paid to research design and data analysis. Part IIdescribes other research methods, including observational, case study, and descriptive methods; statistical power analysis, meta-analysis, and multiple methods; single-subject designs; qualitative methods; structural equation modeling, maximum likelihood estimation, loglinear analysis, and sequential analysis. The new chapter desribes evidence-based practice, clinical outcome research, survival analysis, and action research. Part III discusses the role of researchers as strategists and looks into the future of research in human communication disorders. Advice about how to critically evaluate research, conduct research, and write research reports is given in the appendices.

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