A Primer on Communication and Communicative Disorders

Forstudentstakingcoursesincommunicationsciencesanddisorders. Aneasy-to-readintroductiontocommunicationsciencesanddisordersappropriateformajorsandnon-majorsalike. Thistextiswrittenbyanexpertinthefieldwhohastaughtintroductorycommunicativedisorderscoursestobothmajorsandnon-majorsfornumerousyears.Thisfirsteditionpresentsinformationcomprehensivelyandusesaneasytoread,enthusiastictoneofvoicethatencouragesstudentstoexplorethecontentcoveredingreaterdetailbeyondthetextitself.Introducingthebasicconceptsandmethodsrelatedtostudyingcommunication,thetextcoversbothtypicalspeechandlanguagedevelopmentalongwithinformationondisorderedspeechandlanguage.ThroughoutAPrimeronCommunicationandCommunicativeDisorders,studentsareassistedbyvaluablestudyaidsandfeaturesthathelpthemlearnvitalterms,processinformation,checktheirknowledge,andapplywhattheyhavereadtorealclinicsituationsandissues.Thisintroductorytextisparticularlyuniqueinitscoverageofimportanttopicssuchasswallowingdisordersandmulticulturalissuesinspeechandcommunication.