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This is the first book to provide comprehensive coverage of the communication impairments that occur in association with the two most common forms of childhood cancer, namely leukaemia and brain tumour. Contents ? Major childhood cancers: leukaemia and brain tumour ?...
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Wiley
Parution :
2008-04-30
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Aims to provide an accessible and practical guide to the assessment, differentiation and clinical management of the emotional and psychosocial problems of aphasic and non-aphasic brain damaged individuals and their families. Current clinical approaches are also...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2008-04-30
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This book discusses current theories in linguistics and sociolinguistics as they relate to therapeutic situations, including uses of metaphor, slogans, and proverbs. It shows how people's empathies or feeling of alienation are displayed by the language they choose to...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2008-04-30
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One approach to the study of language has been to describe people whose ability to communicate is impaired. Some researchers have argued that it is possible to identify the component mental processes that contribute to the ability to communicate by describing the ways...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2008-04-30
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There are numerous books dealing with epilepsy but none of them is entirely devoted to the manifold relationships between language and epilepsy. The present monograph focuses on the verbal shortcomings, disorders, deviances, and peculiarities which may be observed in...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2008-04-30
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This book explores the complex issues surrounding the management of cleft lip and palate in the Developing World, and aims to raise the profile of a condition commonly considered to be of only cosmetic importance in countries where infant and child mortality rates are...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2008-04-15
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The book summarises research findings from a range of projects using a set of auditory and speech procedures designed for the psycholinguistic framework developed by Stackhouse and Wells (1997). These procedures have been used with children and adolescents with a range...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2007-09-27
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Since the first edition was published in 1998, considerable advances have been made in the fields of pitch perception and speech perception. In addition, there have been major changes in the way that hearing aids work, and the features they offer. This book will provide...
Editeur :
Wiley-Interscience
Parution :
2007-09-27
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This book provides a step-by-step guide to understanding and treating psychogenic voice disorder by combining speech and language therapy with skills drawn from the field of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT). Beginning with a new classification of psychogenic voice...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2007-04-04
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Challenging behaviours, such as aggression and violence, are more common in deaf people than hearing people. Filling a crucial gap in the international market, this book will appeal equally to those who work occasionally or entirely with Deaf or hearing impaired client...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2006-11-02
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There has been an explosion of studies in the field of genetic hearing impairment in the past decade, associated with major advances in our understanding of the mechanisms and conditions involved. However, a recent review has highlighted the very limited number of...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2006-10-02
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People with Down Syndrome show a specific developmental profile with strengths in social understanding and visual learning and memory, and more difficulties with motor processes, speech and language, and auditory-vocal short-term memory. It is important that parents,...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2006-08-04
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This book offers a concise, readable explanation of the theory of dysphagia and bridges that with material on clinical application. Covering both adult and paediatric swallowing assessment, treatment and management, the book will provide clinicians with common clinical...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2006-07-11
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The aim of the book is to provide a text which brings together the expertise from two separate disciplines applied to a shared problem; that of hearing impairment resulting from an infectious cause.The book has been written to be accessible to both disciplines. It...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2006-06-14
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This is the third book in the series “Children’s Speech and Literacy Difficulties” and is based on research and practice with school-age children with persisting speech and associated difficulties. It focuses on the psycholinguistic nature of their difficulties, how to...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2006-05-12
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This is a comprehensive multi-author handbook covering all aspects of cochlear implantation, fully updated since its first edition was published in 1991. All aspects of this rapidly developing field are covered, from implant design, speech processing strategies,...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2006-05-01
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This book focuses on language and communication issues with older people with mental health problems. Radically revised and updated from the authors’ earlier book, “Communication Disability and the Psychiatry of Old Age”, this book recognizes that language and...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2006-03-30
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Eine einfühlsame und zielorientierte Kommunikation mit Patienten und Eltern junger Patienten ist meist ausschlaggebend für den Behandlungserfolg. Das Buch geht auf alle für die logopädische Therapie wichtigen Themen von Gesprächsführung und Beratung ein....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2005-11-25
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Over the last decade, there has been a revolution in our understanding of the physiological role of the cochlea, and the mechanisms of cochlear hearing loss, the most common type of hearing loss in adults. This book is the first book covering this topic and aimed at the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
1995-11-16
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