Main description:

The Routledge Handbook of Communication Disorders provides an update on key issues and research in the clinical application of the speech, language and hearing sciences in both children and adults.

Focusing on areas of cutting-edge research, this handbook showcases what we know about communication disorders, and their assessment and treatment. It emphasizes the application of theory to clinical practice throughout, and is arranged by the four key bases of communication impairments:

Neural/Genetic Bases

Perceptual-Motor Bases

Cognitive-Linguistic Bases

Socio-Cultural Bases.

The handbook ends with an integrative section, which looks at innovative ways of working across domains to arrive at novel assessment and treatment ideas. It is an important reference work for researchers, students and practitioners working in communication science and speech and language therapy.

Contents:

General Introduction Part 1: Genetic, Neurobiological, and Neurophysiological Systems of Communication Impairments 1. (A)typical Language Development: Genetic and Environmental Influences 2. Neural Network Mechanisms and Adult Language 3. Reading Impairment: From Behavior to Brain 4. Brain Imaging Studies of Developmental Stuttering: A Review 5. Speech and Language Disorders in Children with Craniofacial Malformations 6. Neurophysiology and Voice Production 7. Neural Control of Swallowing and Treatment of Motor Impairments in Dysphagia 8. Neuropharmacologic Approaches to Aphasia Rehabilitation Part 2: Perceptual-Motor Systems of Communication Impairments 9. Oral Sensorimotor Development: Research and Treatment 10. Perceptual Processing of Speech in Infancy 11. Developmental Models of Childhood Apraxia of Speech 12. Speech Recognition Skills of Children with Cochlear Implants 13. Instrumental Analysis of Atypical Speech 14. Contemporary Issues in Dysarthia Part 3: Cognitive and Linguistic-Discourse Systems of Communication Impairments 15. What Bilingualism Tells us About Phonological Acquisition 16. Information Processing in Children with Specific Language Impairment 17. Spelling Strategies and Word Formation Processes: Evidence from Developmental and Spelling Ability Data 18. Literacy Development: The Interdependent Roles of Oral Language and reading Comprehension 19. Child Word Finding: Differential Diagnosis Guides Comprehensive Intervention 20. Person Behind the Written Language Learning Disability 21. Vocabulary and Grammatical Profiles and Relevant Interventions for Adolescents with Down Syndrome 22. Beyond the Theory of Mind Hypothesis: Using a Causal Model to Understand the Nature and Treatment of Multiple Deficits in Autism Spectrum Disorder 23. Language and the Speaking Mind: Brain in Stuttering 24. Linguistic Disruption in Primary Progressive Aphasia, Frontotemporal Degeneration, and Alzheimer's Disease 25.Word Retrieval Impairment in Adult Aphasia Part 4: Social Interactional Systems of Communication Impairments 26. Two Challenges of the Academic Language Register for Students with Language Learning Disabilities 27. African American Children's Early Language and Literacy Learning in the Context of Spoken Dialect Variation 28. Treatment Approaches for Second Language Learners with Primary Language Impairment 29. Second Language-literacy Learning and Social Identity: A Focus on Writing 30. Continuities in the Development of Social Communication: Triadic Interactions and Language Development in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder 31. Emotional Intelligence and Treatment Outcomes in Children with Language Impairment 32. Social Participation and Aphasia 33. Bilingualism and Aphasia Part 5: Reaching Towards Systems Interdependence 34. Interaction of Motor and Language Factors in the Development of Speech Production 35. Neuro/Cognitive and Sociocultural Perspectives on Language and Literacy Disabilities: Moving from Parallel Play to Productive Cooperation 36. Communication as Distributed Cognition: Novel Theoretical and Methodological to Disruptions in Social Communication Following Acquired Brain Injury