{"id":2087,"date":"2012-05-10T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T08:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elanguage.net\/blogs\/booknotices\/?p=2087"},"modified":"2012-05-09T11:07:59","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T09:07:59","slug":"the-handbook-of-language-and-speech-disorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/?p=2087","title":{"rendered":"The handbook of language and speech disorders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em;\"><strong>The handbook of language and speech disorders<\/strong>. Ed. by <strong>Jack S. Damico<\/strong>, <strong>Nicole M\u00fcller<\/strong>, and <strong>Martin J. Ball<\/strong>. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Pp. 672. ISBN <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/handbook-of-language-and-speech-disorders\/oclc\/427645028&amp;referer=brief_results\">9781405158626<\/a>. $202.95 (Hb).<\/div>\n<p align=\"right\">Reviewed by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/linguistlist.org\/people\/personal\/get-personal-page2.cfm?PersonID=77375\">Anish Koshy<\/a><\/strong>, <em>The English and Foreign Languages University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This volume includes twenty-six chapters, organized into four major sections.<\/p>\n<p>Part 1, \u2018Foundations\u2019, begins with a contribution from the editors, who address diagnoses of communication disorders and the task of labeling them and related negative fallouts, such as stereotyping, isolation, and stratification. Exploring factors underlying\/influencing communication disorders, <strong>Brian A. Goldstein<\/strong> and <strong>Ramonda<\/strong> <strong>Horton-Ikard<\/strong> analyze cultural and linguistic factors. <strong>Laura W.<\/strong> <strong>Kretschmer<\/strong> and <strong>Richard R.<\/strong> <strong>Kretschmer<\/strong> discuss hearing impairment and blindness, and <strong>Vesna<\/strong> <strong>Stojanovik<\/strong> discusses genetic factors, such asWilliams, Down, and Fragile-X syndromes. <strong>Megan Hodge<\/strong> and <strong>Tara<\/strong> <strong>Whitehill<\/strong> address how comprehensibility and acceptability of speech defines intelligibility, and <strong>Bonnie<\/strong> <strong>Brinton<\/strong> and <strong>Martin<\/strong> <strong>Fujiki<\/strong> discuss assessment and intervention principles aimed at maximizing functional communication.<\/p>\n<p>Part 2, \u2018Language disorders\u2019, begins with a contribution from \u00a0<strong>John<\/strong> <strong>Muma<\/strong> and <strong>Steven<\/strong> <strong>Cloud<\/strong>, who discuss autism spectrum disorders that lead to dysfunctional social interactions and communication. <strong>Deborah<\/strong> <strong>Weiss<\/strong> and <strong>Rhea<\/strong> <strong>Paul<\/strong> present a discussion of delayed language development in pre-school children with respect to sounds, meaning, morphology, syntax, and pragmatics. <strong>Sandra L.<\/strong> <strong>Gillam<\/strong> and <strong>Alan G.<\/strong> <strong>Kamhi<\/strong> discuss linguistic and processing deficiency in specific language impairment and the role of non-verbal intelligence. <strong>Michael R.<\/strong> <strong>Perkins<\/strong> explores difficulties in the pragmatic use of language and various adaptive strategies. A contribution from <strong>Robert<\/strong> <strong>Reid<\/strong> and <strong>Laura<\/strong> <strong>Jacobson<\/strong> studies learning disabilities that result from language disorders and complications of memory. <strong>Jack S. Damico<\/strong> and <strong>Ryan<\/strong> <strong>Nelson<\/strong> discuss reading as a component of human learning and explore reading impairments like dyslexia. <strong>Truman E.<\/strong> <strong>Coggins<\/strong> and <strong>John C.<\/strong> <strong>Thorne<\/strong> discuss the organic after-effects of prenatal substance abuse on the linguistic abilities of children. Ending this part of the book, <strong>Chris<\/strong> <strong>Code<\/strong> explores aphasia and its emotional and psychosocial effects, such as depression and problems with turn-taking, conversational repair.<\/p>\n<p>In Part 3, \u2018Speech disorders\u2019, <strong>Sara<\/strong> <strong>Howard<\/strong> discusses developmental disorders, focusing on the heterogeneity of a population and multiple etiologies for disorders. <strong>Hermann<\/strong> <strong>Ackerman<\/strong>, <strong>Ingo Hertrich<\/strong>, and <strong>Wolfram<\/strong> <strong>Ziegler <\/strong>examine dysarthria and its types, which result from neurological disorders, and <strong>Adam<\/strong> <strong>Jacks<\/strong> and <strong>Donald A.<\/strong> <strong>Robins<\/strong> take up apraxia of speech, a speech motor planning\/programming disorder resulting from neurological diseases and cognitive deficits. <strong>Kathryn D. R.<\/strong> <strong>Drager<\/strong>, <strong>Erinn F.<\/strong> <strong>Finke<\/strong>, and <strong>Elizabeth C.<\/strong> <strong>Serpentine<\/strong> discuss alternative communication techniques and clinical procedures to augment speech for those with communicative disorders. A contribution from <strong>John A.<\/strong> <strong>Tetnowski<\/strong> and <strong>Kathy Scaler<\/strong> <strong>Scott<\/strong> examines stuttering from behavioral and constructivist perspectives. <strong>Richard<\/strong> <strong>Morris<\/strong> and <strong>Archie Bernard<\/strong> <strong>Harmon<\/strong> take up laryngeal\/voice disorders. Finally, <strong>Jane Russell<\/strong> studies speech disorders as a result of orofacial anomalies like cleft lip\/palate and craniofacial and velopharyngeal dysfunctions, and <strong>Tim<\/strong> <strong>Bressmann<\/strong> deals with speech disorders related to head and neck cancer, focusing on speech production.<\/p>\n<p>Part 4, \u2018Cognitive and intellectual disorders\u2019, includes four chapters. <strong>Carol Westby<\/strong> and <strong>Silvana<\/strong> <strong>Watson<\/strong> explore learning disabilities and language\/literacy disorders, such as delayed speech and pragmatic and discourse\/reading deficits due to attention-deficit\/hyperactivity disorder, and <strong>Margaret Lehman<\/strong> <strong>Blake<\/strong> explores various deficits in discourse comprehension\/production due to right-hemisphere brain damage. A contribution from <strong>Jennifer<\/strong> <strong>Mozeiko<\/strong>, <strong>Karen<\/strong> <strong>L\u00e9<\/strong>, and <strong>Carl<\/strong> <strong>Coelho<\/strong> discusses cognitive communication disorders resulting from traumatic brain injuries. <strong>Nicole M\u00fcller<\/strong> takes up dementia and its effect on physical, cognitive, and communicative abilities, examining Alzheimer\u2019s disease in detail.<\/p>\n<p>Each chapter follows a general structure. After detailing symptoms, each author presents diagnostic tools, highlights causal factors, suggests multiple remedial\/intervention measures, highlights future research prospects, and discusses matters pertaining to the topic under focus. With its comprehensive and step-by-step details, this handbook is a unique resource, indispensable for researchers, clinicians, and therapists, in addition to care-givers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The handbook of language and speech disorders. 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