| Edition |
2nd ed |
| Description |
xvii,571 p : ill ; 28 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Significant landmarks in the history of aphasia and its therapy -- Elements of neurology essential for understanding the aphasias -- Plasticity and recovery in aphasia -- Formal and informal assessment of aphasia -- Therapy approaches to aphasia -- Disorders of auditory comprehension -- Disorders of word production -- The acquired disorders of reading -- Written language and its impairments -- Disorders of sentence processing in aphasia -- Discourse and functional approaches to aphasia -- Quality-of-life approach to aphasia -- Living with aphasia: a client-centered approach -- Aphasia in multilingual populations -- Nature and assessment of right hemisphere disorders -- Treatment of right hemisphere disorders -- Traumatic brain injury in adult -- Dementia and related cognitive disorders -- Acquired apraxia of speech -- Dysarthria. |
| Added Author |
Coppens, Patrick, 1944
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| ISBN |
9781284077315 |
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1284077314 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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