The Handbook of Speech and Language Disorders presents a
comprehensive survey of the latest research in communication
disorders. Reflecting the rapid advances in the field, the
Handbook features in-depth coverage of the major disorders
of language and speech, including perception. Contributions from
leading experts explore current issues, landmark studies, and the
main topics and themes in the fields of communication sciences and
disorders, and include relevant information on analytical methods
and assessment. A series of foundational chapters covers a variety
of important general principles irrespective of specific disorders.
These chapters focus on such topics as classification, diversity
considerations, intelligibility, the impact of genetic syndromes,
and principles of assessment and intervention. Other chapters cover
a wide range of language, speech, and cognitive/intellectual
disorders.
With an extraordinary breadth and depth of coverage in the most
crucial aspects of this growing field, The Handbook of Speech
and Language Disorders is an invaluable guide for clinicians
and researchers, and a rich source of information for students in
speech-language pathology, linguistics, psychology and
education.
Author Biography:
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 and he has
published over 100 peer reviewed articles and chapters in the areas
of language disorders in children, literacy, aphasia in adults,
discourse studies, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder,
language testing and qualitative methodologies. He has authored or
edited 16 books, special journal issues, and manuals including
Childhood Language Disorders (1995),Clinical Aphasiology:
Future Directions (co-edited with Martin Ball, 2007),
andSpecial Education Considerations for English Language
Learners (co-authored with Else Hamayan, Barb Marler, and
Cristine 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 of
Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. She has authored and
edited 10 books, and over 50 peer-reviewed articles and chapters.
Among her recent books are Approaches to Discourse in
Dementia (co-authored with Jackie Guendouzi, 2005), and
The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics (co-edited with
Martin J. Ball, Michael R. Perkins, and Sara Howard,
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. He is
co-editor of the journal Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics,
and has authored and edited over 25 books, 40 contributions to
collections, and some 80 refereed articles in academic journals.
His most recent books are Clinical Sociolinguistics
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2005), Phonetics for Communication
Disorders (co-authored with Nicole Müller, 2005),
Clinical Aphasiology: Future Directions (co-edited with Jack
Damico, 2007) and Critical Concepts in Clinical Linguistics
(co-edited with Tom Powell, 2009).