Cases: Introducing Communication Disorders Across the Life Span - Hardcover

Linda C. Badon And Stephen D. Oller John

9781597560351: Cases: Introducing Communication Disorders Across the Life Span

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ISBN 10: 1597560359 ISBN 13: 9781597560351

Publisher: Plural Publishing Inc, 2009

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This engaging, accessible, and comprehensive textbook introduces the full range of communication disorders that affect speech and language as well as underlying sign systems of sensation, movement, and social cognition. The content is visible, audible, observable, comprehensible, compelling and accessible. It is technology and media rich. It is accessible through easily comprehended stories but encyclopedic in coverage and thoroughness. This course book and its accompanying media rich materials in DVD and web-rich formatting (including links to webcasts as well as videos and illustrations to be included on the DVD) cover the full range of communication disorders as they affect human sign systems. The DVD includes a digital, searchable, user-friendly version of the complete text (in an Adobe Acrobat .pdf file). Each chapter ends with discussion questions, annotated recommended readings (drawn from our extensive selected bibliography), and is linked to a set of intensive multiple choice questions that are presented in a separate Appendix in two forms: one without answers that may be used in teacher-made tests, and another with answers that may be used as a study-guide and check system by students. The end material includes an extensive and complete glossary of technical terms with succinct but accurate definitions as well as a complete index of authors, terms, and important topics covered throughout the book. In addition, on the DVD PowerPoint summaries for classroom use are provided for every chapter.

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About the Author

John Oller is Hawthorne Regents Professor of Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. World renowned as a theoretician and practitioner in language teaching, testing, and related measurement issues, he is organizer of the Sertoma International Conference on Autism Spectrum Disorders. Stephen Oller is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Theater Arts at Texas A&M University Kingsville. His research papers apply the theory of abstraction to language assessment with first, second, and disordered language populations. He also spends time in the natural laboratory of life with his own developing language learners (Brenden David and Gabrielle Alana, to name only the first two). Linda Badon is Assistant Professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Her primary research papers, complementing her clinical work, deal with assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of disorders as well as language, literacy, and cultural diversity. She has served on essential doctoral committees producing some of the key research presented in this book.

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