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The Handbook of Adult Language Disorders
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ABSTRACT
The Handbook of Adult Language Disorders is the essential guide to the scientific and clinical tenets of aphasia study and treatment. It focuses on how language breaks down after focal brain damage, what patterns of impairment reveal about normal language, and how recovery can be optimally facilitated. It is unique in that it reviews studies from the major disciplines in which aphasia research is conducted—cognitive neuropsychology, linguistics, neurology, neuroimaging, and speech-language pathology—as they apply to each topic of language. For each language domain, there are chapters devoted to theory and models of the language task, the neural basis of the language task (focusing on recent neuroimaging studies) and clinical diagnosis and treatment of impairments in that domain. In addition, there is broad coverage of approaches to investigation and treatment from leading experts, with several authors specializing in two or more disciplines. This second edition focuses on characterizing the cognitive and neural processes that account for each variant of aphasia as a first step toward developing effective rehabilitation, given that aphasia is one of the most common and disabling consequences of stroke.
The best and most authoritative handbook in the field, The Handbook of Adult Language Disorders is the definitive reference for clinicians and researchers working in the scientific investigation of aphasia.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
PART 1 Reading
chapter 1|21 pages
Acquired Impairments in Reading
chapter 3|19 pages
Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment of Reading Disorders
part |2 pages
PART 2 Spelling
chapter 4|28 pages
Uncovering the Cognitive Architecture of Spelling
chapter 5|30 pages
Neuroanatomical Correlates of Spelling and Writing
chapter 6|22 pages
Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment of Spelling Disorders
part |2 pages
PART 3 Naming
part |2 pages
PART 4 Semantics
chapter 12|22 pages
Diagnosis and Treatment of Semantic Impairments
part |2 pages
PART 5 Auditory Discrimination and Recognition
chapter 13|20 pages
Models of Speech Processing
chapter 15|12 pages
Diagnosis and Treatment of Auditory Disorders
part |2 pages
PART 6 Sentence Processing
chapter 16|25 pages
Sentence Comprehension Deficits: Independence and Interaction of Syntax, Semantics, and Working Memory
chapter 17|27 pages
Models of Sentence Production
part |2 pages
PART 7 Other Types of Models and Treatment Approaches