Introduction to Communicative Disorders, Fifth Edition

Introduction to Communicative Disorders, Fifth Edition is an introduction to both the science of communication and the profession of communicative disorders, and shows how the field has evolved into a major scientific discipline and health-care profession. With a simple writing style that avoids jargon, this effective, well-organized teaching tool offers extensive and uniform coverage across issues and topics.

This fifth edition incorporates feedback from instructors across the United States. Updates to this edition include the following:

• The Medical Speech–Language Pathology chapter is retitled Neurologically Based Communicative Disorders, and revised with current research information.
• The Special Topics in Speech–Language Pathology chapter has been extensively revised, and the topic of autism spectrum disorders has been updated to include the diagnostic criteria of the DSM-5.
• The audiology chapters have been revised extensively, with terminological changes reflected in the revision. The Aural Rehabilitation chapter is more oriented to the work of audiologists, emphasizing counseling and effective communication approaches that are currently the professional concerns in aural rehabilitation.

A digital Instructors Manual is included with desk copies. Instructors can use the chapter outlines to teach or prepare PowerPoint presentations using the headings, key concepts, terms, and definitions provided. The Manual also contains typical questions (including answer keys) that instructors can use, or modify to suit their teaching style.

Online Resources are included for both instructors and students, including videos, audio clips, and sample illustrations. The materials are organized by topics corresponding to those in the textbook, and include speech samples from real clients with various communication disorders and brief demonstrations of treatment procedures with actual clinicians and clients. Marginal icons in the textbook direct readers to the resources, which they can access by entering an access code located in the print book or in the e-book.

Contents

1. Communication and Its Disorders
2. Culture and Communication: Diversity and Disorders
3. A Profile of Speech–Language Pathologists and Audiologists
4. Anatomy and Physiology of Speech and Language
5. Speech Sound Learning and Disorders in Children
6. Language Learning and Disorders in Children
7. Fluency and Its Disorders
8. Voice and Its Disorders
9. Cleft Palate and Communicative Disorders
10. Neurologically Based Communicative Disorders
11. Special Topics in Speech–Language Pathology
12. Literacy and Speech–Language Pathologists
13. Audiology: Hearing and Its Disorders
14. Aural Rehabilitation
15. The Professions: Education and Organization

572 pages 7 x 10 softcover ©2019