Cognitive Communication Disorders, Third Edition

Cognitive Communication Disorders, Third Edition
ISBN-10
1635501571
ISBN-13
9781635501575
Category
Medical
Pages
415
Language
English
Published
2019-07-24
Publisher
Plural Publishing
Author
Michael L. Kimbarow

Description

The third edition of Cognitive Communication Disorders remains a vital resource for graduate courses that address cognitively based communication disorders. Students, instructors, and clinicians will benefit from the text's comprehensive discussion of cognitive processes and deficits, including attention, memory, executive functions, right hemisphere brain damage, dementia, combat-related mild traumatic brain injury, and traumatic brain injury and the impact that deficits in these cognitive domains may have on language and communication. New to the Third Edition: *A new chapter covering Primary Progressive Aphasia *An expanded chapter on mild cognitive impairment (MCI) addressing concussion related communication disorders *Updated and expanded information on assessment of disordered cognitive processes *Case studies to illustrate principles of clinical management of cognitive communication disorders. Through contributions from a renowned group of contributors, this text provides a comprehensive review of theoretical and applied research on cognitive communication disorders. The renowned contributors include Margaret Lehman Blake, Carole R. Roth, Fofi Constantinidou, Heather Dial, Maya Henry, Jessica Brown, Kathryn Hardin, Nidhi Mahendra, Mary H. Purdy, Sarah E. Wallace, and Sarah N. Villard.

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