Communication-Disorders Books

I've been practicing speech-language pathology for 14 years and just recently purchased this book. It's a wonderful addition to my professional library. I highly recommend it for any SLP student or professional.

Jeffrey Wollock's encyclopaedic study of the medical tradition of the study of speech and language before Descartes is one of the most absorbing books I have read in a long time. As well as the sheer pleasure I have taken in reading it, it has profoundly changed my understanding of the history of Western linguistic thought. Our modern dissociation of the medical from the philosphical tradition is an anachronistic distortion that has had the effect of giving the mental perspective on language a monopoly, and allowing us to forget what we once knew, that language requires bodies as well. Wollock's account of the long tradition from Aristotle and Galen through to the Renaissance gains coherence and readability by focusing on a small number of problems and puzzles. His introduction pulls no punches in explaining how modern linguistics has been impoverished by the wilful forgetting of the fact that, until the 19th century, few if any of the philosophers who form the historical canon of theories of language neglected natural philosophy, which was adjacent to and overlapped with the study of medicine.

This book is geared toward SLPs (speech-language pathologists)and it contains numerous articles for parents/caregivers to help them better understand their child's communication disorder. Great resource for any speech pathologist, I consider it a must have for my own practice. Since a fundamental part of rehabilitation is family education and training, a resource like this is a gem. Make this a classic in your SLP professional library.

This book provides an excellent description of the underlying disorder and a practical, teambased approach. I would recommended it to both speech-language pathologists in a school and medical setting

I'm a Speech Therapist from Argentina and I work with cerebral palsy children. I make every day video fluoroscopy studies and I've found in this book many answers to my daily work. I reallly recommend his lecture for professional support.

This book is excellent for all SLP's and OT's working with children and adults with DD's, sensory impairments, etc. You'll wear it out!

This book serves two purposes. It is an excellent literature review of research into the biological, neurochemical, genetic, and behavioral roots of violence and criminality. It also advances a provocative hypothesis -- that criminality itself may meet the definition of a psychopathology.

Even if you regard the latter as completely bunk (which I don't), the book is invaluable as a literature review. Not only is it exhaustive, but Raine also comments on the literature with a keen logical mind, i.e. "Hungadunga and McCormick found effect X and attributed it to factor Y, but an alternative explanation is provided by factor Z."

I am a science writer, and my main field of expertise is the medical aspects substance abuse treatment. I learned plenty of new stuff about the connections between alcoholism and criminal behavior in this book and will consult it repeatedly the next time my partner and I sit down to write/revise.

Quibbles? Well, to some degree, the literature review works at cross-purposes with his central hypothesis, since most of the resarch he reviews was not undertaken with such a hypothesis in mind and doesn't necessarily apply to it. Also, you do have to pay close attention re: whether Raine is, at any given point, talking about criminality in general, violent criminality in particular, or ASP (antisocial personality) specifically. Structurally, it might have made more sense to write two books: a critical review of the literature, and a second one advancing the thesis that criminality is a psychopathogy. I've faced similar dilemmas in my own writing, and I probably would have made the same decision Raine did -- cram it all in one book!

Bottom line: if you're interested enough in this subject to have read to the bottom of this review, you need to buy this book.

The book illustrates many practical examples and step-by-step solutions.I really learned a lot about the theory of probability involving the accuracy of a diagnostic test.I also liked one of the appendices that contained clinical examples with very precise solutions.I highly recommend this book to all graduate students.

This is a sentinel book on research with persons living with mental illness- a must have for anyone preparing a research proposal. Fantastic, highly relevant material packed into easy to read chapters. I consistently use this book in literature reviews and methodologies. Dworkin has done an amazing thing by packing so much material into this concise text. HIGHLY recommended.

I read this book a while back and I think it is great. It gives information on the different kind of sign languages that are out there. It also has info on education for a deaf child. This book is wonderful, I think it would be excellent for any one with a Deaf child needing some direction in the deaf world. Or some one needing info on Deafness and sign language.