Aphasia and Related Cognitive-Communicative Disorders

KEY BENEFIT: Gives graduate students and those pursuing a clinical career in adult language disorders a comprehensive, up-to-date look at theory and practice in a balanced treatment of impairment-based and communication-based disorders. KEY TOPICS: Understanding acquired language disorders; neurological and medical considerations; investigating language impairments, communication, and participation; clinical assessment and diagnosis; supplemental and functional assessments; recovery and prognosis; treatments and specialized treatments for impairments; functional rehabilitation and participation; right hemisphere disorders; traumatic brain injury; dementias and progressive aphasias SPECIAL TOPICS: Therapeutic software and other technologies, levels of evidence, neuroplasticity, new medical treatments, quality of life, and primary progressive aphasia MARKET: Graduate students and those pursuing a clinical career in adult language disorders