ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section I|91 pages
Genetic, neurobiological, and neurophysiological systems of communication impairments
part Section II|69 pages
Perceptual-motor systems of communication impairments
part Section III|117 pages
Cognitive and linguistic-discourse systems of communication impairments
chapter 17|11 pages
Spelling Strategies and Word Formation Processes
chapter 18|11 pages
Literacy Development
chapter 22|11 pages
Beyond the Theory of Mind Hypothesis
part Section IV|89 pages
Social interactional systems of communication impairments
chapter 30|10 pages
Continuities in the Development of Social Communication
part Section V|38 pages
Reaching toward systems interdependence
