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11. Issues in Bilingual Aphasia

    A Special Issue of Aphasiology

    Edited by Brendan Weekes

    Series: Special Issues of Aphasiology

    Communication disorders are a problem for people around the world. However, language disorders are rarely studied within the context of bilingualism. This is despite the fact that the majority of individuals who are affected by acquired language disorders are multilingual. Studies of bilingual...

    Published March 23rd 2010 by Psychology Press
12. 38th Clinical Aphasiology Conference

    A Special Issue of Aphasiology

    Edited by Beth Armstrong

    Series: Special Issues of Aphasiology

    This issue is made up of research findings presented at the 38th Clinical Aphasiology Conference. In keeping with the mission of CAC to foster new and innovative methods of assessment and treatment, and to stimulate scholarly discussion, the papers span the spectrum of approaches to aphasia and...

    Published August 2nd 2009 by Psychology Press
13. Disordered Communicative Interaction: Current and Future Approaches to Analysis and Treatment

    A Special Issue of Aphasiology

    Edited by Marian Brady, Linda Armstrong

    Series: Special Issues of Aphasiology

    Discourse analysis encompasses a diversity of approaches which can be applied across disparate monolgues, interactions, settings, and populations. This special issue reflects this diversity in the qualitative and quantitative approaches to analysis employed, the range of discourse features...

    Published June 1st 2009 by Psychology Press
14. Progressive Language Impairments: Intervention and Management

    A Special Issue of Aphasiology

    Edited by Lyndsey Nickels, Karen Croot

    Series: Macquarie Monographs in Cognitive Science

    Progressive language impairments comprise a broad range of symptoms of impaired language processing that worsen over time as a result of neurodegenerative disease, and that range from impaired knowledge of the concepts underlying language through reading and writing difficulties to impaired ability...

    Published March 4th 2009 by Psychology Press
15. Dementia

    From Diagnosis to Management - A Functional Approach

    By Michelle S. Bourgeois, Ellen Hickey

    Dementia: From Diagnosis to Management - A Functional Approach is a comprehensive description of a functional and behavioral approach to assessing and treating persons with dementia. While very practical, the information is embedded in a scientific context of the causes, neuropsychological...

    Published February 16th 2009 by Psychology Press
16. 37th Clinical Aphasiology Conference

    A Special Issue of Aphasiology

    Edited by Beth Armstrong

    Series: Special Issues of Aphasiology

    This issue is made up of research findings presented at the 37th Clinical Aphasiology Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, in May 2007. In keeping with the mission of CAC to foster new and innovative methods of assessment and treatment, and to stimulate scholarly discussion, the papers span the...

    Published December 1st 2008 by Psychology Press
17. The Syllable and Beyond: New Evidence From Disordered Speech

    A Special Issue of Aphasiology

    Edited by Wolfram Ziegler, Ingrid Aichert

    Series: Special Issues of Aphasiology

    The concept of a "mental syllabary", i.e., a store of syllable-sized motor planning units, has become a cornerstone in the modeling of spoken language production. This idea lead to the question of the significance of syllabic representations in speech impairments, especially in apraxia of speech,...

    Published October 29th 2008 by Psychology Press
18. Milestones in the History of Aphasia

    Theories and Protagonists

    By Juergen Tesak, Chris Code

    Series: Brain, Behaviour and Cognition

    Milestones in the History of Aphasia surveys the history of aphasia from its earliest mentions in ancient times, to the turn of the new millennium in 2000. The book takes a predominantly chronological approach starting with an examination of the earliest medical documents and medieval attempts to...

    Published January 31st 2008 by Psychology Press
19. Verbal Perseveration

    A Special Issue of Aphasiology

    Edited by Jacqueline Ann Stark

    Series: Special Issues of Aphasiology

    Introductory textbooks on neurogenic communication disorders associated with aphasia and brain injury do not provide full documentation of the pervasive influence of perseveration in the diagnosis and treatment of clients with severe language processing deficits. This special issue of Aphasiology...

    Published October 3rd 2007 by Psychology Press
20. 36th Clinical Aphasiology Conference

    A Special Issue of Aphasiology

    Edited by Audrey Holland

    Series: Special Issues of Aphasiology

    This is the annual published proceedings of the 36th Clinical Aphasiology Conference (CAC). It was held in Ghent, Belgium, and was the first CAC meeting to be held outside North America. As a result, the 2006 CAC attracted a substantial number of submissions from European researchers and clinicians...

    Published May 29th 2007 by Psychology Press