Brain-based communication disorders /

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Author / Creator:	LaPointe, Leonard L., author.
Imprint:	San Diego, CA : Plural Pub., [2010] ©2010
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 279 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Language:	English
Subject:	Communicative disorders. Brain damage. Brain damage. Communicative disorders. Communication Disorders. Central Nervous System Diseases -- complications. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11237253

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Other authors / contributors:	Murdoch, B. E., 1950- author. Stierwalt, Julie A. G., author.
ISBN:	9781597567046 1597567043 9781597561945 1597561940
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Introduces the reader to the major clinically recognized types of acquired speech/language, cognitive, and swallowing disorders encountered by clinicians working with child and adult neurological cases.
Other form:	Print version: LaPointe, Leonard L. Brain-based communication disorders 9781597561945

Table of Contents:

Neurological basis of speech and language
Basic anatomy and physiology of the speech mechanism
Neurological causes of communcation disorders
Aphasia
Non-focal brain damage : communication disorders and a world of other problems
Right hemisphere syndrome
Acquired aphasia in childhood
Motor speech disorders in adults : dysarthrias and apraxia of speech
Motor speech disorders in childhood
Acquired neurological swallowing disorders in children and adults
Principles of assessment of child and adult neurological speech-language disorders
Principles of treatment for neurological communication disorders.

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