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Aphasiology G. Albyn Davis, Ph.D.

Aphasiology By G. Albyn Davis, Ph.D.

Aphasiology by G. Albyn Davis, Ph.D.


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Offers a comprehensive presentation of theoretical study and clinical practice of aphasiology. Structured according to a typical course outline, this book begins with etiology and moves to clinical assessment. It teaches diagnostic thinking with respect to the relationships between symptoms and hidden impairments in cognitive terms.

Aphasiology Summary

Aphasiology: Disorders and Clinical Practice by G. Albyn Davis, Ph.D.

Aphasiology: Disorders and Clinical Practice offers perhaps the only balanced and comprehensive presentation of theoretical study and clinical practice of aphasiology. Modern psycholinguistics and cognitive neuropsychology are employed for developing student understanding of diagnosis. Right hemisphere dysfunctions and closed head injuries are reviewed as well as aphasia caused by stroke. Current trends in managed care, functional therapy, and theory-driven treatments are reflected in the presentation of rehabilitation.

Structured according to a typical course outline, the book begins with etiology and moves quickly to clinical assessment. It teaches diagnostic thinking with respect to the relationships between symptoms and hidden impairments in cognitive terms. Through this approach, a future clinician should acquire an appreciation for the scientific investigation that supports a clinical discipline.

The book's accessible writing style minimizes the intrusion of referencing. The emphasis is on explanation and illustration, rather than on a fastidious inclusion of every study. Tables are used to summarize essential points and to provide historical overviews, while many instructional points are viewed throughout the book - including a case study about the story of Martin Exeter and his family, which begins and concludes the book.

Table of Contents

All chapters include Summary and Conclusions.

1.Introduction to Acquired Language Disorders.

Defining Aphasia.

Describing Aphasia.

Explaining Aphasia.

Treating Aphasia.



2.Causes of Aphasia.

Stroke.

Ischemic Stroke.

Hemorrhage.

Tumor.

Other Neuropathologies.

Clinical Neurological Examination.

Clinical Brain Imaging.

Localization and Dissociation.

Clinical Syndromes of Aphasia.

Exceptional Aphasias.



3.Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis.

Comprehensive Neuropsychological Evaluation.

Aphasia Tests.

Psychometric Constraints: The PICA.

Diagnosing Syndromes: The Boston Exam.

Numerical Classification: The WAB.

Saving Time.

Common Supplemental Tests.

Notes on Interpretation.

Martin Exeter's Initial Report.



4.Investigating Aphasia in General.

Basic Research in Clinical Aphasiology.

Language-Specific Disorder.

Word Processing.

Sentence Comprehension.

Explaining Sentence Comprehension Deficit.

Object Naming.

Productive Word-Finding.



5.Investigating Symptoms and Syndromes.

Agrammatism.

Comprehension with Agrammatism.

Anomic Aphasia.

Conduction Aphasia.

Wernicke's Aphasia.

Martin Exeter's Aphasia.



6.Special Investigations.

Modality-Specific Naming Problems.

More Cognitive Neuropsychology.

Universal Aphasia.

Aphasia in Bilingual Individuals.



7.Functional Communication and Discourse.

Nonverbal Modalities.

Pragmatic Language.

Discourse and Text.

Aphasic Discourse Production.

Discourse Comprehension with Aphasia.

Conversation.

Overall Functional Status.

Assessment of Functional Communication.

Martin Exeter's Functional Skills.



8.Right Hemisphere Disorders.

Language Evaluation.

Awareness of Deficits.

Visuospatial Functions.

Auditory-Vocal Modalities.

Emotion.

Secondary Language Deficits.

Speaker Meaning.

Discourse.

Clinical Assessment.

Martin Exeter's Right Hemisphere.



9.Traumatic Brain Injury and Related Syndromes.

Head Trauma.

The Trauma Unit.

Clinical Neuropsychology.

Attention.

Perception and Recognition.

Memory.

Executive Functions.

Frontal Lobe Syndromes.

Insight and Emotion.

Language.

Discourse.



10.Recovery and Prognosis.

Stroke and Functional Outcomes.

Measuring Recovery of Language.

Approaches to Prognosis.

Type of Stroke.

Severity of Impairment.

Type of Impairment.

Other Factors.

Bilingual Recovery.

Traumatic Brain Injury.

Explaining Recovery.

Martin Exeter's Recovery.



11.Principles of Language Restoration.

Rehabilitation Settings.

Treating an Impairment.

Behavior Modification.

Cognitive Stimulation.

Programmed Stimulation.

Word-Finding.

Measurement and Generalization.

Computer-Assisted Treatment.

Group Treatment.

Efficacy of Standard Aphasia Treatment.

Managed Care.

Patient-Oriented Decisions.



12.Functional Therapeutics and Outcomes.

Bridging the Clinical-Functional Gap.

Functional Stimulation.

Compensatory Behaviors.

Interactive Therapies.

Partners and Settings.

Changing Communicative Contexts.

Psychosocial Adjustment.

Documenting Functional Outcome.



13.Targeting Specific Disorders.

Studying Individual Cases.

Global Aphasia.

Agrammatic Production: Empirical Treatments.

Agrammatic Production: Theory-Driven Treatments.

Asyntactic Comprehension.

Wernicke's Aphasia.

Conduction Aphasia.

Anomic or Mild Aphasia.

Reading Impairments.



References.

Additional information

GOR006646232
9780205298341
0205298346
Aphasiology: Disorders and Clinical Practice by G. Albyn Davis, Ph.D.
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Pearson Education (US)
19991201
356
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