Speech disorders : causes, treatment and social effects / Alan E. Harrison, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harrison, Alan E.

Series:

Languages and Linguistics

Languages and linguistics series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Speech disorders.

Language disorders.

Communicative disorders.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hauppauge, NY : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Speech disorders or speech impediments are a type of communication disorder where 'normal' speech is disrupted. This book gathers the latest research from around the globe in the study of speech disorders with a focus on such topics as speech and voice disorders in Parkinson's Disease, genetic causes, and mutism.

Contents:

""SPEECH DISORDERS: CAUSES, TREATMENT AND SOCIAL EFFECTS""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""SPEECH AND VOICE DISORDERS IN PARKINSON�S DISEASE""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""I. DESCRIPTION OF PARKINSONIAN DYSARTHRIA""; ""I.1. Speech Respiration""; ""I.2. Phonation""; ""I.3. Resonance""; ""I.4. Articulation""; ""I.5. Prosody""; ""I.6. Sensory and Perceptual Deficits""; ""II. TREATMENT""; ""II.1. Pharmacological Treatment""; ""II.2. Surgical Treatment""; ""II.3. Speech Therapy""; ""III. METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES""; ""III.1. Normal Variations in Speech Production""; ""III.2. Task Dependency""

""III.3. Methodological Differences""""III.4. Heterogeneity of PD Patients""; ""IV. PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF SPEECH IMPAIRMENT IN PD""; ""REFERENCES""; ""SPEECH AND LITERACY: THE CONNECTION AND THE RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL POPULATIONS""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""THE SPEECH-LITERACY CONNECTION: THEORETICAL BASES""; ""SPEECH-RELATED SKILLS OF CHILDREN WITH LITERACY DIFFICULTIES""; ""Early Identification""; ""LITERACY-RELATED SKILLS OF CHILDREN WITH SSD""; ""Persisting Speech Problems""; ""Concomitant Language Skills""; ""Childhood Apraxia of Speech""; ""Severity of Speech Disorder""; ""Speech Sound Error Types""

""THE ROLE OF PHONOLOGICAL SHORT-TERM MEMORY""""Phonological Short-Term Memory in Children with SSD""; ""Method""; ""Results""; ""Discussion""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""IMAGING OF BRAIN FUNCTION WITH POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND ITS ROLE IN APHASIA RESEARCH""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""A SHORT HISTORY OF PET""; ""Data Correction and Image Reconstruction""; ""PARAMETERS FOR ACTIVATION STUDIES""; ""Performance and Analysis of Functional Studies""; ""Limitations for PET Activation Studies""; ""FUNCTIONAL ACTIVATION IN HEALTHY SUBJECTS""

""Visual System""""Auditory System""; ""Motor and Somatosensory Activation""; ""Language""; ""Cognition and Memory""; ""ACTIVATION PATTERNS IN BRAIN DISEASE""; ""POSTSTROKE APHASIA""; ""Disturbance of Regional Metabolism and Flow versus Severity and Persistence of Language Deficit""; ""Changes in Activation Patterns versus Recovery of Language Function""; ""Effect of Treatment in Poststroke Aphasia""; ""Combination of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) with Activated Imaging""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""

""USING SPANISH IN THE HOME TO PROMOTE SCHOOL READINESS IN ENGLISH""""ABSTRACT""; ""The Case for Intervention in the Home Language""; ""The Intervention""; ""METHOD""; ""Participants""; ""Materials and Procedure""; ""Measures of Treatment Effect""; ""Kindergarten testing""; ""RESULTS""; ""Rates of Completion and Attrition""; ""The PLS-III in Spanish at Intake and after Each Year of Treatment""; ""Kindergarten Testing in Spanish and English""; ""DISCUSSION""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""APPENDIX B. MATERIALS FOR PARENT SURVEY:""

""NEW FRONTIERS IN UNDERSTANDING SPEECH SOUND DISORDER: UNRAVELING THE MYSTERIES OF GENETIC CAUSES""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and cip data provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1-61761-916-7

OCLC:

669492778