This is a book for those encountering the field of communication disorders for the first time. It has come to be widely used as a foundation textbook in speech therapy courses. Following a review of the problems of terminology, the book discusses models of language disability and the advantages and disadvantages of the medical and behavioural models. Among the other topics considered are the communication chain and the classification of linguistic pathologies. The book also provides an integrated account of the contributions of the many disciplines and professions involved with language handicap. This second edition has an extra chapter reviewing the main trends in the subject in the 1980s.
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Höhe: 230 mm
Breite: 150 mm
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978-1-871381-10-8 (9781871381108)
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Part 1 The scope of the subject: what counts as "language pathology"?; the effects of language disability. Part 2 Models of language disability: aspects of the medical model; aspects of the behavioural model; language; models of language structure; correlating medical and behavioural data; other models. Part 3 The communication chain: the brain; neurological encoding; anatomical-physiological encoding; acoustic transmission; auditory reception; neurological transmission and brain decoding. Part 4 The classification of linguistic pathologies: production disorders v reception disorders; organic disorders v functional disorders; speech disorders v language disorders; language deviance v language delay; abnormal v normal; pathologies of reception; "central" pathologies; pathologies of production; cleft plate; epidemiological issues; the contributing professions. Part 5 Current trends in language pathology.
