Acquired Speech and Language Disorders
2nd Edition
Published on 20. May 2013
384 pages
978-1-118-69713-9 (ISBN)
Description
It is vital to have knowledge of the neuroanatomical structures andfunctional neurological mechanisms, which are disrupted inneurogenic speech/language, disordered persons in order tounderstand the speech/language deficits themselves.
This book provides a comprehensive coverage of the neurologicalbasis of both the clinically recognised forms of aphasia and thevarious motor speech disorders, in both children and adults. Italso covers more recently recognised language disorders, such asParkinsons and related diseases, right hemisphere damage,closed-head injury, dementia, etc. This is a perfect text forpractitioners who need to understand the integration ofneuroanatomy and functional neurology with the practice ofspeech-language pathology.
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Bruce E. Murdoch
Acquired Speech and Language Disorders
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Professor Bruce E. Murdoch is the Director of the Centre for Neurogenic Communication Disorders Research and Head of the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. He is the founding editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing, the Foundation President of the Asia Pacific Society for the Study of Speech, Language and Hearing; and Vice-President of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics.
Content
1 Neuroanatomical and neuropathological framework of speech and language 1
2 Aphasia syndromes 47
3 Subcortical aphasia syndromes 78
4 Speech-language disorders associated with traumatic brain injury 118
5 Language disorders subsequent to right-hemisphere lesions 153
6 Language disturbances in dementia syndromes 176
7 Language disorders associated with diseases of the cerebral white matter 202
8 Neurological disturbances associated with aphasia 226
9 Dysarthrias associated with upper and lower motor neurone lesions 244
10 Dysarthrias associated with extrapyramidal syndromes 271
11 Dysarthrias associated with lesions in other motor systems 303
12 Acquired childhood speech-language disorders 333
Index 370
