Communication-Disorders Books

I've been looking for this book for the last three years, and finally found a copy in a library of one of the local universities.

This is a great book--well worth the search for it, since it is out of print, and extremely difficult to find.

As far as I know, only two books have been dedicated to the subject of cluttering, the 1964 book by Deso Weiss, and this book. This book is actually a compilation of various authors on cluttering, and is edited by Dr. St. Louis and Dr. Myers. They are also the main contributors, but it has a chapter by Dr. Daly, one by Alf Preus, and an excellent introduction by Charles Van Riper.

Pages 11-14 are actually readable in the "Look Inside This Book" section of this amazon page.

I liked this book because it gave at least four different views on cluttering. I think that it is a great follow up to Weiss's book on cluttering, and I hope that another book is written soon on this subject.

I'm a clutterer, and this helped me a lot to understand cluttering. It also spurred a lot of new thoughts about things I can do about cluttering.

I think that all Speech Language professionals should read this book. Like the title says, it's a "Clinical Perspective, so it's written to clinicians, and like I mentioned above, it is well worth searching for.

Communication Disorders and Interventions for Low Incidence Pediatric Populations provides state-of-the-art information on the medical background and etiology, communication characteristics, assessment, intervention, and professional collaboration for a variety of conditions associated with communication disorders, including traumatic brain injury, attention deficit disorder, Tourette syndrome, Fragile X syndrome, neglect and abuse, prenatal drug exposure and autism qand pervasive developmental disorders.

Lisa Schoenbrodt and Romayne Smith have compiled information on each disorder that is helpful to practicing speech-language pathologists and included practical suggestions for intervention strategies. The information could also provide background on the communication needs and challenges of children with these low incidence disorders for special educators, teachers, psychologists, and other professionals who work with them. The information is well-organized and current. The book also could serve as a background text or reference text for graduate courses in language disorders of children.

Communication Disorders and Interventions for Low Incidence Pediatric Populations provides a needed source of information. The appendixes suggest resources for additional information about each low incidence pediatric problem area. We now have information on a wide variety of communication disorders in low incidence pediatric populations in one clinical reference.
--- excerpt from book's Introduction

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Conscious seeing is a very touching, deep and poetic philosophy of seeing. This system of thought treats the eye as an ideal model which helps us to understand the speciality of human perception. To make the reader understand this reasoning, the author operates with many metaphors and vivid stories which are literary works of imagination.

The author tells that the sharp vision given by glasses or contact lenses has its cons. In the fog and vagueness of what is called "bad eyesight", there are new gates of perception, new thoughts and feelings, which would have been unable with sharp vision. This does not mean that the author makes excuses for bad eyesight. He just discourages from using lenses which narrow the sight and narrow the mind. When the eyesight is focused by the lenses, we are paying much attention to detail and cannot see the worlds as whole, we loose the holistic way of perception. If we understand that, we'll make the first step on the way of improving our eyesight.

To see, not to look - this is the main point of the book. Lots of people do look, but only a few do see. Transforming your habits to really seeing is a key to better, healthier and more exciting life. There are the following traits of a person who looks but not sees: gets up from the bed quickly, thinks about being in a bathroom as an unpleasant necessity, takes meals on the run, feels lack of real contact when meets with people, the thoughts about job and plans of paid occupation are always rolling inside the mind, the body always feels tired, don't make even morning exercises, or opposite, are too fanatic with fitness.

Seeing and social life is an important aspect of the book. The author analyzes the important phenomena of social myopia which leads to social disjunction.

Besides the philosophic and spiritual look to the eyesight, the author presents many scientific advises, habits and exercises to improve the eyesight and get rid of lenses. In addition to this book I hightly recommend "The Bates Method For Better Eyesight" by W.H. Bates and "Help Yourself to Better Sight" by M.D. Corbett.

The grandmother-granddaughter conversation examined in this book makes explicit what the detailed study of interaction reveals about two social problems - "bulimia" and "grandparent caregiving." For the first time, systematic attention is given to interactional activities through which family members display ordinary yet contradictory concerns about health and illness. Through analysis of a single audio-recorded and transcribed conversations, the altogether pervasive and often troubled co-existence of family medical predicaments is revealed by treating families as primordial institutional systems whose talk about real or idealized medical concerns is little understood - including attempts to impose and disregard constraints regarding health behavior as displays of institutional orientations and priorities.

From a careful review of extant theories seeking to explain eating disorders and grandparent caregiving, it becomes clear that an overreliance on self-reported experiences has promoted underspecified understandings of "social contexts" - conceptualizations devoid of real-time constituent practices and interactional consequences mirroring how families manages daily affairs and understandings regarding health and illness. Shifting from inherently individualized models of bodily disease or psychosocial illness, attention is given to the kinds of embodied interactional activities family members bring to one another's attention as practical and significant reasons informing actions.

Implications of this investigation extend well beyond "bulimia" and "grandparent caregiving" to a vast array of casual and institutional involvements between family members, friends, and bureaucratic representatives such as those involved in long-term caregiving, dealing with cancer and Alzheimer's disease, or conducting psychiatric interview and HIV/AIDS counseling sessions. Findings regarding the nature of caregiving, will be of value for researchers focusing on language and social interaction, health practitioners, and families alike.
--- from book's back cover

I am the author of The Psychology of Communication Disorders which was published in 1987. My revised 2nd edition is entitled Couseling Individuals With Communication Disorders which was published in August 2000 by Butterworth-Heinemann

User-friendly, backed by research with lots of information on a variety of cultures, languages, and dialects.

...Readers will not have a problem with this book. Since I've had to go get several papers used in this book at a variety of libraries, I have not yet found one problem.

Even more important is the quality of information provided in this book that is critical to educators and parents of deaf children. As a deaf person and a deaf student, I wish that my parents had had this type of help available to them back in the 60's and 70's, when I was attending public school. I know they were deeply frustrated with the total lack of information concerning how to participate in my education, and why I 'learned' some things easily and well, but had problems with other things. It would be criminal for parents of deaf children today (especially hearing parents with no prior introduction to deafness), not to use this book to increase their knowledge about how their children can best be helped to learn.

The three men who wrote this book are all uniquely qualified to provide this critical information. Marschark is the prevailing voice of wisdom in educating deaf learners. His previous books have delved into the psychological and educational needs and abilities of deaf learners, and he provides fair and concise information about what is known from all fields (such as MRI studies of the brain activity in deaf learners, as well as types of communication strategies that will or will not work). Dr. Harry Lang is not only a physicist and a deaf educator, but a deaf person himself who having been through the system knows not only what it is like, but also what really needs to be done. He also provides a lot of input into the teaching of difficult subjects such as science and math. Dr. John Albertini is a professor of English whose research into intertwining of English skills into other subjects (science for example) has helped educators to use and promote English literacy throughout the entire educational experience of deaf learners. This provides a bootstrap to deaf learners to achieve literacy in other subjects... There is still a great deal of controversy concerning educating deaf and hard-of-hearing students, concerning language and the abilities of these students to learn. ...

Lest I give readers the idea that this book is written in an inaccessible manner, I want to assure them that this is not so. While it is true that writing for research journals is very different and often inaccessible to the lay person, these three authors go out of their way to make this book as easily understandable as possible. The book is research-based, not research writing. This book is an essential text for educators and librarians to buy, and it is an essential text for parents and for deaf learners themselves to read in order to help themselves...

Now in an updated and expanded second edition, the Facts On File Encyclopedia Of Deafness and Hearing Disorders provides a comprehensive and "user friendly" reference of basic information on hearing disorders and deafness, from types of conditions to the legal rights for the hearing impaired, treatment options, and degrees of hearing loss. An excellent, basic reference which should be considered for any serious health library collection.

I teach in both RN and Psych Tech Programs in the state of California, and I can tell you that this book makes an excellent text when studying the field of Pyschiatry. It is an excellent book for those persons entering the field of Nursing or Mental Health. Not only does the book define classic mental conditions such as schizophrenia, psychosis, depression, obsessive/compulsive disorders and all the other basic mental disorders, it also allows for the "theraputic use of self" when the student encounters someone who is in need of an individualized interpersonal response. A person can only go so far utilizing a Nursing Care Plan; the art of Psych Nursing is one that is discovered daily and under many unique and challenging conditions. This book serves as a valuable guiding light; it is a book for reference, and a great scientific base to all things Psych.
Critical Thinking excersises are also included, which will help the student prepare for the State Board Exams that they are all heading towards passing this exam as their goal.
I think that this book added to any Psych cirriculum will be a golden touch to the program it seeks to help.
This text also defines medications used to treat mental disorders, gives pharmacologic overviews and precautions.
Newer psych diagnosis, such as "Oppositional Defiant Disorder" which generally belongs in the teen patients is discussed on page 468 and makes for some interesting reading.
One possible outcome that may result as a by-product of studying this text is that one may "diagnose" persons in their life that are not "patients."
Thus the borderline diagnosis line of disorders can be the basis of much controversy at times.
Get this book - read it - study it - use it as a reference and it will open up the world of Modern Psychiatry for you in ways that you will appreciate and value.