Overview
This engaging, accessible, and comprehensive textbook introduces the full range of communication disorders that affect speech and language as well as underlying sign systems of sensation, movement, and social cognition. The content is visible, audible, observable, comprehensible, compelling and accessible. It is technology and media rich. It is accessible through easily comprehended stories but encyclopedic in coverage and thoroughness. This course book and its accompanying media rich materials in DVD and web-rich formatting (including links to webcasts as well as videos and illustrations to be included on the DVD) cover the full range of communication disorders as they affect human sign systems. The DVD includes a digital, searchable, user-friendly version of the complete text (in an Adobe Acrobat .pdf file). Each chapter ends with discussion questions, and is linked to a set of intensive multiple choice questions that are presented in a separate Appendix in three forms: two without answers (MSWord and WordPerfect formats) that may be used in teacher-made tests, and an Acrobat file with answers that may be used as a study-guide and check system by students.The DVD also includes an extensive and complete Glossary of technical terms with succinct but accurate definitions as well as a complete Index of authors, terms, and important topics covered throughout the book. In addition, PowerPoint summaries (which can easily be edited and added to by the instructor) are provided for classroom use are provided for every chapter.
Full Product Details
Author: John W. Oller, Jr. ,
Linda C. Badon ,
Stephen D. Oller
Publisher: Plural Publishing Inc
Imprint: Plural Publishing Inc
Edition: Special edition
Dimensions:
Width: 21.60cm
, Height: 4.80cm
, Length: 27.90cm
Weight: 2.223kg
ISBN: 9781597560351
ISBN 10: 1597560359
Pages: 784
Publication Date: 01 June 2007
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Adrienne B. Hancock, PhD (George Washington University), Doody's Review Service, (2009): The authors intend to present basic content in a dynamic framework to illustrate relationships and themes woven through many communication disorders. This unique take on perhaps the most basic content is refreshing and engaging. ... This book has a unique framework and presentation among introductory communication disorder texts. Students (majors and non-majors) would find it interesting and motivating.
Author Information
John Oller, Jr., Ph.D. John W. Oller, Jr., Ph.D., has given a lifetime of study to language acquisition. He began his work as a professor at the University of California in Los Angeles. He went on to found the Department of Linguistics at the University of New Mexico and the Applied Language and Speech Sciences Ph.D. Program at the University of Louisiana. Stephen Oller, Ph.D. Stephen D. Oller, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Program (in the Department of Biological and Health Sciences) at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. Linda Badon, Ph.D. Linda C. Badon, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Her primary research papers, complementing her clinical work, deal with assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of disorders as well as language, literacy, and cultural diversity. She has served on essential doctoral committees producing some of the key research presented in this book.
