A Handbook on Stuttering

  Auditory Neuroscience: Making Sense of Sound (The MIT Press) Auditory Neuroscience: Making Sense of Sound (The MIT Press) OTHER ARTICLES An integrated overview of hearing and the interplay of physical, biological, and psychological processes underlying it.Every time we listen--to speech, to music, to footsteps approaching or retreating--our auditory perception is the result of a long chain of diverse and intricate processes that unfold within the source of the sound itself, in the air, in our ears, and, most of all, in our brains. Hearing is an everyday miracle that, despite its staggering complexity, seems effortless. This book offers an integrated account of hearing in terms of the neural processes that take place in different parts of the auditory system.Because hearing results from the interplay of so many physical, biological, and psychological processes, the book pulls together the different aspects of hearing--including acoustics, the mathematics of signal processing, the ...

  Signs of the Times Signs of the Times OTHER ARTICLES Designed for use as a classroom text, Signs of the Times is an excellent beginner's contact signing book that fills the gap between sign language dictionaries and American Sign Language texts. The book presents 1,185 signs organized into 41 lessons. Each lesson contains clear illustrations of all signs, English glosses and synonyms, sample sentences to define vocabulary context, and practice sentences to clarify sign language usage. Signs of the Times is a complete text that includes suggestions for teachers, an appendix of conceptual signs, an extensive index, and a reading reference list. Mind ticklers enliven the lessons with hints, tips, and mnemonic devices.The content of each lesson makes Signs of the Times an easy text to use. The unique feature of the signs being repeated in the sentences throughout the book provides excellent practice opportunities for the students. The large, clear illustrations should make the learni...

  Supporting Children with Communication Problems: Sharing the Workload Supporting Children with Communication Problems: Sharing the Workload OTHER ARTICLES First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

  The Hearing-Loss Guide: Useful Information and Advice for Patients and Families (Yale University Press Health & Wellness) The Hearing-Loss Guide: Useful Information and Advice for Patients and Families (Yale University Press Health & Wellness) OTHER ARTICLES Where can the most accurate and helpful information about hearing loss be found? From a friend or relative who has impaired hearing? From an experienced audiologist? Both, says the author of this essential book!   In an unusual new approach, audiologist John M. Burkey offers not only specific and up-to-date information based on his own extensive experience with patients, but also useful, first-hand advice from those patients themselves. The Hearing-Loss Guide presents clear, basic facts on hearing impairment and treatments, followed by candid personal recommendations from people who are coping successfully with hearing difficulties. For anyone confronting hearing loss, for family members and friends, and for others who wo...

  Rehabilitation Research Rehabilitation Research OTHER ARTICLES Discover how to use evidence to improve your practice! Providing thorough, contemporary coverage of the full range of rehabilitation research with a clear, easy-to-understand approach, Rehabilitation Research: Principles and Applications, 6th Edition helps you learn to analyze and apply research to practice. It examines traditional experimental designs, as well as nonexperimental and emerging approaches, including qualitative research, single-system designs, epidemiology, and outcomes research. Ideal for students and practitioners in physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech-language pathology, this user-friendly resource emphasizes evidence-based practice and your development as a true scientist-practitioner.Evidence-Based Practice chapter provides an overview of the important concepts of EBP and the World Health Organization model of health and disease.Interdisciplinary author team consisting of a PT and an...

  Dictionary of Communication Disorders Dictionary of Communication Disorders OTHER ARTICLES This dictionary provides clear and concise explanations of terms used in the field of speech, therapy pathology and relevant terms in related fields including augmentative, alternative communication, hearing, linguistic, medicine, phonetics/phonology and psychology/psychiatry. Those working with people who have communication disorders and those who may be returning to this field will find the explanations easy to understand. Terms include assessments, therapy programmes and current theories in these fields.This edition has been thoroughly updated. It includes useful website addresses for manufacturers and suppliers of communication aids and publishers of assessments, and where to find useful information on the internet for various conditions.

  The Scerts Model: A Comprehensive Educational Approach for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders (2 volume set) The Scerts Model: A Comprehensive Educational Approach for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders (2 volume set) OTHER ARTICLES A groundbreaking synthesis of developmental, relationship-based, and skill-based approaches, The SCERTS® Model provides a framework for improving communication and social-emotional abilities in preschool and primary school students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and their families. Developed by internationally recognized experts, SCERTS® supports developmental progress in three areas: Social Communication (communicating spontaneously and establishing relationships), Emotional Regulation (regulating emotional arousal to support learning and engagement), and Transactional Supports (elements that aid a child's progress as he or she works toward a goal). With the two-volume manual set, early intervention professionals will have comprehensi...

  A Coursebook On Language Disorders In Children (Singular Textbook Series) A Coursebook On Language Disorders In Children (Singular Textbook Series) OTHER ARTICLES This is a coursebook written for courses on children's language disorders, their assesement and treatment. It is written for introductory courses on language disorders in children. It is based on several books including textbooks and journal articles on language disorders in children. The emphasis in on descriptive and clinical perspective. The coursebook makes it easier for instructors to expand the basic information provided here by including complex issues and theoretical perspectives.

  Handbook of Early Childhood Special Education Handbook of Early Childhood Special Education OTHER ARTICLES This handbook discusses early childhood special education (ECSE), with particular focus on evidence-based practices. Coverage spans core intervention areas in ECSE, such as literacy, motor skills, and social development as well as diverse contexts for services, including speech-language pathology, physical therapy, and pediatrics. Contributors offer strategies for planning, implementing, modifying, and adapting interventions to help young learners extend their benefits into the higher grades. Concluding chapters emphasize the importance of research in driving evidence-based practices (EBP).Topics featured in the include:Family-centered practices in early childhood intervention.The application of Response to Intervention (RtI) in young children with identified disabilities.Motor skills acquisition for young children with disabilities.Implementing evidence-based practices in E...

  Stuttering Stuttering OTHER ARTICLES Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2022!This updated edition of the most comprehensive, pedagogically sound textbook in the field provides an overview of stuttering’s etiology and development, details the latest approaches to accurate assessment and treatment, and provides new case studies and online videos that illustrate different levels and ways of treating stuttering. Exploring a variety of practice settings, the book covers evidence-based practice, counseling, IEPs, and assistive devices and has been thoroughly updated to address all current methodologies.NEW! The latest findings in genetics, epigenetics, brain imaging, sensory-motor control, language, and emotion provides students with an up-to-date view of stuttering.NEW CHAPTER! A new chapter on Learning explains how stuttering develops, covers the key elements of treatment at different ages, and details the effects of classical, operant, and avoidance conditioning.NEW! The author’s ...

  Language and Literacy Connections: Interventions for School-Age Children and Adolescents Language and Literacy Connections: Interventions for School-Age Children and Adolescents OTHER ARTICLES Language and Literacy Connections: Intervention for School-Age Children and Adolescents takes readers on a path of knowledge steeped in principles and practical applications. This much-needed new text uniquely integrates language learning and disorders and literacy together in a coherent and cohesive narrative that covers the challenges facing school-age students from early elementary levels through high school. Using past and current research and interventions from speech-language pathology (SLP) and reading and literacy arenas, the authors present transcripts, cases, and detailed intervention sessions to provide a template for daily practice. The text raises questions relating to why am I doing this? and provides some answers to this most complex, yet basic, question--

  Here's How to Do Accent Modification: A Manual for Speech-Language Pathologists Here's How to Do Accent Modification: A Manual for Speech-Language Pathologists OTHER ARTICLES Here's How to Do Accent Modification: A Manual for Speech-Language Pathologists is designed for speech-language pathologists (SLPs) working with clients on accent modification in American English. A growing number of non-native speakers are interested in improving their communication skills and SLPs need preparation to work with this clientele. The text provides copious advice and many diverse techniques for teaching accent modification, from the level of basic sounds to the level of discourse.The text emphasizes realistic goal setting, so that clients focus on becoming effective communicators as opposed to sounding exactly like native speakers. The objective is a balance between clear and natural speech. Many SLPs favor intelligibility over naturalness because of their backgrounds working with speec...

  Language Development From Theory to Practice Language Development From Theory to Practice OTHER ARTICLES Note: This is the bound book only and does not include access to the Enhanced Pearson eText. To order the Enhanced Pearson eText packaged with a bound book, use ISBN 0134412087. Language Development From Theory to Practice provides a survey of key topics in language development, including research methods, theoretical perspectives, and major language milestones from birth to adolescence and beyond, and language diversity and language disorders. Each chapter bridges language development theory and practice by providing students with a theoretical and scientific foundation to the study of language development. The authors emphasize the relevance of the material to students' current and future experiences in clinical, educational, and research settings emphasize multicultural considerations and how they affect language development focus on using evidence-based practices for maki...

  Cochlear Implant Patient Assessment: Evaluation of Candidacy, Performance, and Outcomes Cochlear Implant Patient Assessment: Evaluation of Candidacy, Performance, and Outcomes OTHER ARTICLES This updated second edition of Cochlear Implant Patient Assessment is an instrumental reference for clinicians working with cochlear implant recipients and graduate students in the fields of speech-language pathology and audiology. The content of the text is logically organized, and begins with necessary background information for cochlear implant candidacy and the selection process. Later chapters provide information on assessment of implant candidacy, postoperative assessment of performance over the long term, and possibilities for future research and understanding. Though Cochlear Implant Patient Assessment contains useful information for even the most seasoned clinicians, it will serve an especially important role in the education and training of students and clinicians being introduced t...

  Neonatal and Pediatric Respiratory Care: A Patient Case Method Neonatal and Pediatric Respiratory Care: A Patient Case Method OTHER ARTICLES Confidently meet the challenges you'll face in clinical and practice!Gain a solid understanding of neonatal and pediatric diseasesas you explore real-world patient experiences with this unique resource.Inside, you'll find everything you need to know about perinatal lung diseases - common neonatal complications - congenital diseases - pediatric pulmonary and upper airway diseases - and neuromuscular disorders. A streamlined presentation helps you easily grasp the background, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, management and treatment, and the course and prognosis of each disease.In every chapter, unfolding case studies with full-color illustrations and photographs enhance your critical-thinking skills, making it easy to connect theory with practice. Plus, multiple-choice review questions help you assess your progress.Explore MORE o...

  Preparing Deaf and Hearing Persons with Language and Learning Challenges for CBT: A Pre-Therapy Workbook Preparing Deaf and Hearing Persons with Language and Learning Challenges for CBT: A Pre-Therapy Workbook OTHER ARTICLES Preparing Deaf and Hearing Persons with Language and Learning Challenges for CBT: A Pre-Therapy Workbook presents 12 lessons to guide staff in hospital and community mental health and rehabilitation programs on creating skill-oriented therapy settings when working with people who don't read well or have trouble with abstract ideas, problem solving, reasoning, attention, and learning. Drawing from the worlds of CBT, current understandings of best practices in psychotherapy, and the emerging clinical specialty of Deaf mental health care, the workbook describes methods for engaging people who are often considered poor candidates for psychotherapy.

  Counseling in Audiologic Practice: Helping Patients and Families Adjust to Hearing Loss Counseling in Audiologic Practice: Helping Patients and Families Adjust to Hearing Loss OTHER ARTICLES Counseling in Audiologic Practice is designed to guide the practicing audiologist or the audiology student in the mastery of counseling skills to meet the needs of patients and families suffering from hearing loss.The text examines the range of emotions experienced by parents following the diagnosis of pediatric hearing loss as well as the less recognized emotional impact accompanying adult hearing loss. Discussion based upon counseling theory reveals the variety of dynamics within audiologists' interactions with patients to help clinicians more completely address the personal adjustment/support counseling needs of individuals, families, and groups as well as those approaching audiologic services from within the context of a culturally divergent background

  Speech and Voice Science Speech and Voice Science OTHER ARTICLES Speech and Voice Science, Fourth Edition is the only textbook to provide comprehensive and detailed information on both voice source and vocal tract contributions to speech production. In addition, it is the only textbook to address dialectical and nonnative language differences in vowel and consonant production, bias in perception of speaker identity, and prosody (suprasegmental features) in detail. With the new edition, clinical application is integrated throughout the text--

  School Programs in Speech-Language Pathology: Organization and Delivery, Sixth Edition School Programs in Speech-Language Pathology: Organization and Delivery, Sixth Edition OTHER ARTICLES Nearly 55% of ASHA-certified speech-language pathologists work in school settings. The numbers are even higher when non-ASHA certified pathologists are considered. There are only a few resources that address service delivery, as opposed to assessment or treatment of specific communication disorders. School Programs in Speech-Language Pathology is designed to provide both new and experienced practitioners with solutions and strategies for the challenges they face in the complex and ever-changing world of school-based delivery.. Most books for school-based speech-language pathologists focus on different types of intervention and diagnoses. School Programs in Speech-Language Pathology focuses on service delivery, program design, and how to organize and manage an effective program. Additionally, th...