Speech category: 462 books

The definitive guide to treating hearing loss and auditory disorders in the 21st century Hearing loss impacts an estimated 360 million people worldwide and may precipitate poorer academic performance, reduced quality of life, decreased social engagement, and increased fatigue. Audiology Treatment,...

This book tries to answer the question posed by Minsky at the beginning of The Society of Mind: "to explain the mind, we have to show how minds are built from mindless stuff, from parts that are much smaller and simpler than anything we'd considered smart." The author believes that cognition...

The vast majority of work in theoretical linguistics from a generative perspective is based on first language acquisition and performance. The vast majority of work on second language acquisition is carried out by scholars and educators working within approaches other than that of generative linguistics....

The practising paediatrician struggles to combat the effects of acute illness and disease in babies and older children. The pattem of hospital admissions has changed dramatically since I first qualified over 25 years ago. Neonatology is a relatively new branch of paediatrics and achievements in neonatal...

This timely book reflects trends in managing patients with inner ear disease through medical means rather than through surgical treatment. Covering the clinical applications of cutting-edge research, including regenerative medicine for inner ear disease, inner ear perfusion treatments, vestibular...

El Trastorno Específico del Lenguaje (TEL) es uno de los trastornos con más prevalencia de entre las dificultades del aprendizaje afectando a un 7% de la población. El TEL se caracteriza por una afectación en la adquisición del lenguaje oral sin que vaya acompañado de déficits cognitivos, sensoriales,...

Nueva edición de este Manual de Logopedia que incluye las aportaciones más recientes de la psicolingüística y de las ciencias neurocognitivas, y su concatenación con las nuevas tecnologías. Esta cuarta edición actualiza todos los contenidos e incorpora nuevos datos acerca del diagnóstico...

This book investigates language disorders in children who speak languages other than, or in addition to, English. The chapters in the first section of the volume focus on language disorders associated with four different syndromes in multilingual populations and contexts. This section discusses language...

Written primarily by audiologists familiar with cutting-edge research in a rapidly changing field, Auditory Electrophysiology provides a fresh perspective on the most current advances and practices in the specialty. Research and clinical information are presented separately to facilitate learning...

The Bilingual Aphasia Test is a comprehensive language test designed to assess the differential loss or sparing of various language functions in previously bilingual individuals. The individual is tested, separately, in each language he or she previously used, and then in the two languages simultaneously....

Nueva edición de este tratado de audiología que constituye un compendio actualizado en español de los conocimientos actuales de audiología. La experiencia conseguida por los directores en su vida profesional y docente, así como la organización de los XVIII Cursos de Audiología (organizado...

The past fifteen years have witnessed an increasing interest in the cognitive study of the bilingual. A major reason why psychologists, psycholinguists, applied linguists, neuropsychologists, and educators have pursued this topic at an accelerating pace presumably is the acknowledgment by increasingly...

This handbook includes an overview of those areas of cognition and language processing that are relevant to the field of communication disorders, and provides examples of theoretical approaches to problems and issues in communication disorders. The first section includes a collection of chapters...

La sorte ha voluto che Iosif Brodskij si sia trovato, a distanza di pochi giorni, nell’autunno del 1987, a scrivere i due discorsi qui raccolti, che vengono ad assumere nella sua opera un significato simbolico: il discorso su "La condizione che chiamiamo esilio" e quello per il Premio...