Table of Contents “...Neuroanatomy and neuropathology -- Neurologic assessment -- Assessing adults who have neurogenic cognitive-communicative impairments -- Assessing cognition -- Assessing language -- Assessing functional communication and quality of life -- The context for treatment of cognitive-communicative disorders -- Neuroanatomic explanations of aphasia and related disorders -- Right hemisphere syndrome -- Traumatic brain injury -- Dementia -- Motor speech disorders....”

Table of Contents “...Neuroanatomy of the nervous system -- Neurologic assessment -- Assessing adults who have neurogenic cognitive-communicative impairments -- Assessing cognition -- Assessing language -- Assessing functional communication and quality of life -- The context for treatment of cognitive-communicative disorders -- Neuropathologic and neuroanatomic explanations of aphasia and related disorders -- Treatment of aphasia and related disorders -- Right-hemisphere syndrome -- Traumatic brain injury -- Dementia -- Motor speech disorders....”

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Table of Contents “...Aphasia and related neurogenic communication disorders : basic concepts, management, and efficacy -- Appendix 1A: Aphasia united "top 10" international best practic recommendations for aphasia -- 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 -- Extralinguistic cognitive consideration in aphasia management -- Disorders of auditory comprehension -- Disorders of word production -- The acquired disorders of reading -- Written language and its impairments -- Disorders of sentence processing in aphasia -- Approaches to assessment and treatment of everyday talk in 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 -- Appendix 17A: Sample case history supplement form -- Appendix 17B: A performance inventory for everyday environments and tasks -- Treatment of right hemisphere disorders -- Traumatic brain injury in adult -- Appendix 19A: Rancho Los Amigos Scale -- Appedix 19B: Assessment tools based on the World Health Organization model -- Dementia and related cognitive disorders -- Acquired apraxia of speech -- Management of dysarthria....”

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