Assessment of Communication Disorders in Adults: Resources and Protocols.

Second Edition

M.N. Hegde, Donald B. Freed

Details: 478 pages, B&W, Softcover, 8.5" x 11"

ISBN13: 978-1-59756-983-5

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Assessment of Communication Disorders in Adults: Resources and Protocols, Second Edition offers a unique combination of scholarly information, invaluable resources, and time-saving protocols on assessment of communication disorders in adults.

Most resource books offer limited research and scholarly information, thus making them unsuitable as textbooks for academic courses on assessment and diagnosis. Similarly, most traditional textbooks do not include practical, easy-to-use, and time-saving resources and protocols that the practicing clinicians can readily use during assessment sessions. By combining the strengths of traditional textbooks with newer assessment resources and protocols, this one-of-a-kind book offers a single, comprehensive source that is suitable as a textbook and useful as a practical clinical resource.

This bestselling and trusted text

Covers the full range of communication disorders in adults, from aphasia to voice disorders
Gives a comprehensive outline of basic assessment procedures
Provides a set of protocols that are necessary to assess any communication disorder in adults
Addresses the multicultural issues in assessing communication disorders in adults and offers an integrated assessment approach that includes the most desirable features of the traditional and several alternative approaches
Contains two chapters for each disorder: one on resources that offers scholarly and research background on the disorder and one on resources that describe practical procedures and protocols that save preparation time and effort for the clinician

New to the Second Edition

A PluralPlus companion website allows clinicians to view, modify, and print the assessment protocols for their personal use
All Resources chapters reflect current research and assessment principles and procedures
Updated listings and descriptions of published, standardized tests that are commonly used in the assessment of communication disorders in adults are provided
Revisions of several assessment procedures and protocols, based on recent research, are included
Revised and expanded descriptions of many adult communication disorders are provided
Each chapter contains a summary and sample study questions

RELATED BOOK ON CHILDREN
This book is a companion volume to Assessment of Communication Disorders in Children, Third Edition. These two volumes offer a comprehensive set of resources and protocols to assess the entire range of communication disorders in all age groups.

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"Named to Doody's Core Titles in the Health Sciences - Speech, Language & Hearing 2020 list."
—Doody's (May 2020)

Preface
Creating Client-Specific Assessment Packages with Protocols on the Companion Website

Part I. Foundations of Assessment

Chapter 1. Assessment of Adults: An Overview
Chapter 2. Common Assessment Protocols

Part II. Assessment of Motor Speech Disorders in Adults

Chapter 3. Assessment of Apraxia of Speech (AOS): Resources
Chapter 4. Assessment of Apraxia of Speech (AOS): Protocols
Chapter 5. Assessment of Dysarthria: Resources
Chapter 6. Assessment of Dysarthria: Protocols

Part III. Assessment of Aphasia

Chapter 7. Assessment of Aphasia: Resources
Chapter 8. Assessment of Aphasia: Protocols

Part IV. Assessment of Right-Hemisphere Syndrome

Chapter 9. Assessment of Right-Hemisphere Syndrome (RHS): Resources
Chapter 10. Assessment of Right-Hemisphere Syndrome (RHS): Protocols

Part V. Assessment of Major and Minor Neurocognitive Disorder (Dementia)

Chapter 11. Assessment of Major and Minor Neurocognitive Disorder (Dementia): Resources
Chapter 12. Assessment of Major and Minor Neurocognitive Disorder (Dementia): Protocols

Part VI. Assessment of Traumatic Brain Injury

Chapter 13. Assessment of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): Resources
Chapter 14. Assessment of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): Protocols

Part VII. Assessment of Fluency Disorders

Chapter 15. Assessment of Fluency Disorders: Resources
Chapter 16. Assessment of Fluency Disorders: Protocols

Part VIII. Assessment of Voice

Chapter 17. Assessment of Voice: Resources
Chapter 18. Assessment of Voice: Protocols

Index

Authors

M.N. Hegde

M. N. Hegde, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Communication Sciences and Disorders at California State University-Fresno. A specialist in fluency disorders, language disorders, research methods, and treatment procedures in communication disorders, Dr. Hegde is world renown as a researcher, presenter, contributor of original articles to leading national and international journals, and critically acclaimed author of more than two dozen highly regarded books in speech-language pathology. He has served on the editorial boards of several scientific and professional journals, has been a guest editor of international journals, and continues to serve as an editorial consultant to the Journal of Fluency Disorders.

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Donald B. Freed

Donald Freed, PhD is a chair emeritus in the Department of Communicative Sciences and Deaf Studies at California State University, Fresno. He received both his MS and PhD from the University of Oregon. Prior to joining the Fresno faculty, he worked as a speech-language pathologist in acute care and rehabilitation facilities, and served as a research speech pathologist at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center. His research has concentrated on aphasia and motor speech disorders. He has published articles in journals such as Aphasiology, Clinical Aphasiology, American Journal of Speech and Language Pathology, and Journal of Speech and Hearing Research.

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Related Bundles

Assessment of Communication Disorders (Adults and Children Bundle)

These two textbooks offer a unique combination of scholarly information, invaluable resources, and time-saving protocols on assessment of communication disorders in children and adults.

Most resource books offer limited research and scholarly information, thus making them unsuitable as textbooks for academic courses on assessment and diagnosis. Similarly, most traditional textbooks do not include practical, easy-to-use, and time-saving resources and protocols that the practicing clinicians can readily use during assessment sessions. By combining the strengths of traditional textbooks with newer assessment resources and protocols, these texts offer a single, comprehensive source that is suitable for courses on assessment and useful as practical clinical resources.

Key Features of both textbooks

Covers the full range of communication disorders across the lifespan
Addresses the multicultural issues in assessing communication disorders in children and adults and integrates multicultural assessment procedures into the assessment protocols offered for all communication disorders
Contains two chapters for each disorder: one on resources that offers scholarly and research background on the disorder and one on resources that describe practical procedures and protocols
All Resources chapters reflect current research and assessment principles and procedures
Updated listings and descriptions of published, standardized tests that are commonly used in the assessment of communication disorders in children and adults are provided
Revisions of several assessment procedures and protocols, based on recent research, are included
Each chapter contains a summary and sample study questions
Access to PluralPlus companion website available for both books

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Resources

Purchasers of this book receive complimentary access to assessment protocols hosted on a PluralPlus companion website.

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