Speech category: 462 books
Reading Between the Lines
Understanding Inference
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Suitable for teachers and speech and language therapists working in the fields of language and literacy, and concerned with developing inferencing skills in their students, this book contains a collection of 300 texts which are graded, and lead the student gradually from simple tasks.
Auditory Processing Deficits
Assessment and Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Auditory Processing Deficits is designed to provide readers with key clinical information on APD, an important, growing area of interest in the field of audiology. The book contains the latest guidelines on screening, diagnosis, and intervention of auditory processing deficits and includes key information...
The Yale Swallow Protocol
An Evidence-Based Approach to Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
The Yale Swallow Protocol is an evidence-based protocol that is the only screening instrument that both identifies aspiration risk and, when passed, is able to recommend specific oral diets without the need for further instrumental dysphagia testing. Based upon research by Drs. Steven B. Leder and...
The Aphasia Therapy File
Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The Aphasia Therapy Files represent a practical resource for people who work with individuals with aphasia, either as therapists or as researchers. An overview of issues associated with current practices is combined with a study of the practicalities of determining, designing and implementing therapies.
This...
Language Function
An Introduction to Pragmatic Assessment and Intervention for Higher Order Thinking and Better Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
Literacy teaching tends to take a structural approach to language, focusing on auditory products or skills such as sounds, morphemes, words, sentences, and vocabulary. However, new research suggests that the majority of English speakers actually think and learn in visual concepts, and that there is...
Pathophysiology and Surgical Treatment of Unilateral Vocal Fold Paralysis
Denervation and Reinnervation
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
All laryngologists, especially general ENT doctors who see patients with paralytic dysphonia, as well as speech pathologists, will benefit from this book’s coverage of many basic and clinical aspects of reinnervation in retrieving patients’ normal voices.
Phonosurgical treatment for paralytic...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This volume is a direct result of the International Symposium on Japanese Sentence Processing held at Duke University. The symposium provided the first opportunity for researchers in three disciplinary areas from both Japan and the United States to participate in a conference where they could discuss...
Elements of Hermeneutic Pragmatics
Agency and Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Can linguistic pragmatics be developed without the need to formulate rules, criteria or maxims? The author argues that rules as they have been conceived of within pragmatics, particularly speech act theory, are limiting and out of step with the linguistic science of recent decades.
Using a hermeneutic...
by Steven B. Leder, Paul D. Neubauer
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This text is a reliable, validated, anatomically defined, and image-based tool to determine residue location and severity when performing fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES). Based upon research by Drs. Leder and Neubauer, an easily interpreted, readily learned, and hierarchically...
Children's Intonation
A Framework for Practice and Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
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...
The Development of Language Processing Strategies
A Cross-linguistic Study Between Japanese and English
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Ever since the notion of explanatory adequacy was promoted by Chomsky in his 1965 Aspects, linguists and psycholinguists have been in pursuit of a psychologically valid theory of grammar. To be explanatorily adequate, a theory of grammar can not only describe the general characteristics of a language...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
This book, endorsed by the European Laryngological Society, is a comprehensive guide to key topics in neurolaryngology, which enables readers to quickly identify and implement solutions in concrete situations likely to arise in everyday clinical practice. It includes detailed information on conditions...
The Psychology of Aphasia
A Practical Guide for Health Care Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Brain damage predisposes many persons with aphasia to a variety of psychological reactions, which are precipitated by stress and loss, and perpetuated by impaired verbal defense mechanisms and coping styles. Most of the literature on recovery from aphasia does not sufficiently address the overwhelming...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
This current and expanded edition of a bestselling text is divided into four sections, organized to follow the sequence in which decisions are made regarding hearing aid fittings, and featuring new chapters on middle ear implants, hearing aid counseling, and infection control. Other chapters have been...