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How is the brain able to sort out complex mixtures of sounds? How do we relate these simultaneous lines together so as to hear the music as a coherent whole? And how are images of sound stored in memory and recalled? This study answers these questions from a broad persective. The text explores the nature of sound; the workings of the inner ear; neural mechanisms of hearing; our perception of complex sound patterns, pitch and timbre; and communication through speech.

This handbook discusses early childhood special education (ECSE), with particular focus on evidence-based practices. Coverage spans core intervention areas in ECSE, such as literacy, motor skills, and social development as well as diverse contexts for services, including speech-language pathology, physical therapy, and pediatrics. Contributors offer strategies for planning, implementing, modifying, and adapting interventions to help young learners extend their benefits into the higher grades. Co...

This book and downloadable resources are the simple answer to a busy therapist's problem. It enables the therapist to meet their professional responsibility to inform patients and carers of relevant dysphagia instructions by designing contemporaneous written information, advice and therapy. Using downloadable resources, Swallowing Guidelines allow you to produce multiple individualised programmes that may be emailed or posted to the individuals, their carers or other professionals in any locati...

This highly practical text for both pre-service and in-service teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing covers methods of teaching and other issues related to the teaching of deaf students. Teaching Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students takes a practical look at the challenges of teaching subject matter to deaf children. The text gives suggestions about what teachers can do in the classroom that will make a positive difference in how their deaf students learn. It emphasizes providing teachers with...

This book includes practical activity ideas to help people who have aphasia. Designed for use by speech & language therapists, students, volunteers and carers, this is a very user-friendly and practical workbook providing activity ideas to improve skills in specific areas for people who have aphasia. The activities cover a range of difficulties encountered in aphasia including colour recognition, reading and writing, numeracy, memory and vocabulary. The book offers progress from easy to more com...

Training in clinical audiometry is both equipment and personnel intensive. Exercises in Audiometry is designed for use by students enrolled in courses in clinical audiometry that require hands-on experience, as well as practicing clinicians performing procedures with which they are unfamiliar. This manual, wire bound to lie flat, consists of 25 exercises each describing a particular procedure ranging from audiometer calibration to a variety of diagnostic tests. The manual is designed to be used...

What Every Singer Needs to Know About the Body, Fourth Edition gives singers and teachers a Body Mapping resource - from anatomy and physiology to body awareness - that helps them discover and correct misconceptions about how their bodies are designed and how they function. This book provides detailed descriptions of the structures and movements necessary for healthy and efficient body awareness, balance, breathing, phonation, resonance, articulation, and gesture. Many voice books focus on the a...

This contributed text focuses on communication differences and disorders in culturally diverse children. Clinicians will find this book to contain a wealth of information about clinical strategies and procedures. In addition to a rich review of known strategies, readers will find an abundance of innovative suggestions for assessment and intervention of communication disorders in culturally diverse children. Unique aspects of this book include chapters on rural service delivery, interagency colla...

Language Disorders Across the Lifespan, Second Edition is a core introductory text on language disorders written specifically for the novice reader. It is unique in that it covers language disorders across the lifespan, that is, from birth to old age. The book is organized into three sections: Language Delays and Disorders in Preschool Children, Language Disorders in School-Age Children, and Language Disorders in Adults. Common clinical considerations in the diagnosis and treatment of language d...

This innovative approach to dealing with communication difficulties was devised by the author following encounters with increased numbers of children who had learned to talk, but still were unable to communicate effectively. This new theory of communication development devised in the late 1990s has been successfully used by the author and a wide range of educators and promotes the good use of non-verbal skills in children. This programme changes the lives of the children (in the family and at sc...