Exploring Communication Disorders: A 21st Century Introduction Through Literature and Media

From the Foreword

Exploring Communication Disorders is an innovative text. It is an incredibly thorough work that provides countless examples that stretch your imagination, warm your heart, and stir your fears. It is comprehensive, easy-to-read, well organized, and immensely appropriate for a college-level text. To that end it is also ideally designed to support a liberal studies course that examines how communication disorders are treated in literature and media. It also provides an inviting way to tell students about the discipline of communication sciences and disorders in an entertaining and engaging manner. Professionals in speech—language pathology and audiology touch the lives of children and adults in very special ways. Students also learn about these professionals, gain a deeper understanding of human communication, and may someday as a result find their way to a career in speech—language pathology or audiology.

University of Cincinnati

Dennis C. Tanner is the author of twelve books and many scientific papers, diagnostic tests, and clinical programs. His article, Hooray for Hollywood: Communication Disorders and the Motion Picture Industry, was featured in the ASHA Leader, and he has presented courses on the same topic at conventions of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Dr. Tanner is currently Professor of Health Sciences, Speech-Language Sciences and Technology Program at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. He has been named Outstanding Educator by the Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions and was the College of Health Professions "Teacher of the Year."