Medical : Audiology & Speech Pathology

A comprehensive multi-author handbook covering various aspects of cochlear implantation, from implant design, speech processing strategies, assessment and rehabilitation of children and adults to future developments. Chapters written by implant users and their parents give insight into the experience of hearing again with a cochlear implant. more...

Price: $85.00

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 adolescent more...

Price: $70.00

This book presents a scientific understanding of the perceptual and cognitive processes that use sound to achieve an understanding of the environment more...

Price: $81.95

Heredity is at the root of most cases of hearing impairment. Scientists have identified nearly 100 genes and loci implicated in hearing loss since 1995. This text branches into syndromic and nonsyndromic categorical directions as a comprehensive report on these genetic discoveries. more...

Price: $169.95

Many professionals in the communicative sciences are relative newcomers to the understanding of genetics as it applies to communicative disorders. A speech-language clinician certainly can diagnose and treat stuttering, for example, but that clinician may not be fully aware of the role of a genetic counselor for the family of a stutterer. An audiologist may be able to assess a hearing impairment, but an understanding of the underlying genetics of that impairment would make that person a better audiologist. The medical geneticist, similarly, could have an inadequate appreciation of how our genes may affect language function. All of these professionals need a source that brings together essential ideas from related disciplines. This is a book about human communication, both normal and disordered, and how our communication abilities are affected by our genes. Many, probably most, communicative disorders are of genetic origin, even if not exclusively genetic. A knowledge of genetics, therefore, is essential to our understanding of communication, of communicative disorders, of how such disorders come about, and of how to deal with them. This is the only book to consider the genetics of communicative disorders from a broad perspective. It examines genetics, embryology, and epidemiology, along with study of the hearing, speech, and language disorders themselves. It also introduces review of issues relevant to genetic counseling and ethics. It is a unique and comprehensive work whose contributors are the leading experts in their respective disciplines. more...

Price: $113.00