Speech and language disorders and therapy

Communication and language disorders are often considered from one particular point of view - either psychological or neurological.

How do people with brain damage communicate?

This is the first single-authored book to attempt to bridge the gap between aphasia research and the rehabilitation of patients with this language disorder.

Spreen and Risser present a comprehensive, critical review of available methods for the assessment of aphasia and related disorders in adults and children.

This book focuses on two fundamental aspects of brain-language relations: one concerns the neural organization of language in the healthy brain; the other challenges current approaches to treatment of aphasia and offers a new theory for recovery from aphasia.

This book highlights the wide impact of deafness on many aspects of communication for deaf children and young people, and those around them.

This book examines opportunities and obstacles in achieving the digital inclusion of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

The book offers a comprehensive approach to the assessment and treatment of disturbances in facial expression, oral movement, swallowing, breathing, voice and speech production caused by developmental and acquired neurological conditions.

This timely collection explores how children display social competence in talking about their mental health and wellbeing.

The book focuses on the interaction of persons with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

The book focuses on the interaction of persons with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

Set against the context of a changing professional landscape, this book examines the journey of the authors, Jo and Diana, as they transitioned from working in the National Health Service (NHS) to setting up an independent practice following redundancy.

This book offers speech and language therapists, and other allied health professionals, a practical resource for working in a distinctive way with children and young people, and their parents, to achieve their 'best hopes' from therapy.

With chapters containing up to 50 percent new coverage, this book provides a thorough update of the latest research and development in the area of acquired aphasia.

The definitive reference for managing sensorimotor speech disordersBringing together the expertise of leading research practitioners in the field, the second edition of Clinical Management of Sensorimotor Speech Disorders is an up-to-date reference for the underlying theory and the basic principles of assessment and treatment.

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Navigating Speech Sound Disorders in Children is an easy-to-read resource which gives an overview of the whole area of speech sound disorders (SSDs) in children, covering assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management, underpinned by the latest research in the field.