Book description
Through contributions from leading experts in the fields of
communication science,
The
Handbook of Speech and Language Disorders
presents a comprehensive survey detailing the state of the art in
speech, language, and cognitive/intellectual disorders.
- Provides the first in-depth exploration of the rapidly expanding
field of communication disorders
- Examines the current debates, landmark studies, and central themes
in the discipline, including analytical methods and assessment
- Includes contributions from more than 20 leading scholars to
provide an extraordinary breadth of coverage of this growing,
multi-disciplinary field
- Features a “foundations” section that deals with issues of central
importance to all research in the field, including social and
practical considerations in classification and diversity, genetic
syndromes, and principles of assessment and intervention
Jack S. Damico is the Doris B. Hawthorne Eminent Scholar in
Communicative Disorders and Special Education at the University of
Louisiana at Lafayette. He is co-editor of the Journal of
Interactional Research in Communication Disorders . His books include
Childhood Language Disorders (1995),Clinical Aphasiology:
Future Directions(co-edited with M. Ball, 2007), and Special
Education Considerations for English Language
Learners (co-authored with E. Hamayan, B. Marler, and C.
Sanchez-Lopez, 2007).
Nicole Müller is a Hawthorne-BoRSF Endowed Professor of
Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
She is the founder-editor of the Journal of Multilingual
Communication Disorders, and is now a co-editor, with Martin J.
Ball, of Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. She is co-author
of Approaches to Discourse in Dementia (2005), and co-editor
of The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008).
Martin J. Ball is Hawthorne-BoRSF Endowed Professor, and
Director of the Hawthorne Center for Research in Communicative
Disorders, at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. his most
recent books are Clinical Sociolinguistics (Wiley-Blackwell,
2005), Phonetics for Communication Disorders (co-authored
with N. Müller, 2005) and Critical Concepts in Clinical Linguistics
(co-edited with Tom Powell, 2009)
