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Practical, concise, and time-saving, Hearing Disorders Handbook provides comprehensive, reliable and accurate descriptions of auditory and vestibular disorders, their frequency of occurrence, etiology, diagnosis, and management - all in a single resource. It approaches the subject from a multitude of perspectives from diverse disciplines.

This text is the author's thoughtful and effective response to preschool educators' and speech language pathologists' frustrations in meeting the needs of the Hispanic family. It will be a positive contribution to our understanding of Hispanic families and their children.

Head and Neck Vascular Anomalies: A Practical Case-Based Approach is a useful guide to the management of lesions caused by vascular anomalies, providing specific treatment algorithms for their management. This book offers consistent and straightforward techniques to the more frequently encountered and some of the more difficult vascular anomalies.

MCI and Alzheimer's Dementia: Clinical Essentials for Assessment and Treatment of Cognitive-Communication Disorders is the ideal choice for instructors who teach an adult language disorders course that includes a unit devoted to cognitive-communication disorders of adults with dementia.

Basic Fundamentals in Hearing Science is a practical textbook written primarily for college undergraduates that are preparing for graduate programs in Speech-Language Pathology or Audiology.

This excellent resource for teachers of singing, voice coaches, and speech-language pathologists who work with singers and other voice professionals provides a new paradigm for improved kinesthetic awareness in order to produce better singing technique.

This book, now in its second edition, is a practical resource that helps speech-language pathologists, educators, and other professionals understand how poverty affects children's developing language and provides strategies that support these children and their families.

Special Topics is the third book in a three-book series series focused on Translational Perspectives in Auditory Neuroscience. The book interweaves both basic and applied research, and hence provides "translational" perspectives on "hot topics" in hearing science. The first book in the series is Normal Aspects of Hearing.

This book pulls together the necessary information on methods of measurement from the disciplines of fields of voice, speech, and swallowing into one convenient resource for students and clinicians in speech-language pathology.

Operative Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery presents an extensive explanation of surgeries and procedures within cosmetic surgery and reconstruction. Each major surgery is given its own section so that it functions as a practical resource for the busy surgeon.

This book is an essential guide to early intervention for treatment of autism and related disorders. In clear, direct language, it helps early interventionists jump-start the communication process, strengthen parent confidence, and promote healthier parent-child relationships.

This book offers an accessible and easy to understand treatment of acoustic immittance, from basic to advanced measures. Laboratory exercises and clinical cases from actual practice are provided, with focused questions to elicit classroom discussion.

The goal of this book is to highlight areas from the broad spectrum of rhinology, beginning with the initial history and physical examination through the diagnostic work up, medical and surgical management and identification of potential pitfalls that may arise in order to minimize treatment failures.

This book integrates descriptions of disorders of the ear and the nervous system and provides a comprehensive coverage of anatomy and physiology of the entire auditory system; it also introduces the role of neural plasticity in creating symptoms of diseases of hearing such as tinnitus, hyperacusis and phonophobia.

Consultative Selling Skills for Audiologists outlines a specific system that blends several innovative clinical tests - such as the QuickSIN and Acceptable Noise Level test - with proven interpersonal communication strategies that enhance the audiologist's persuasiveness in a commercial working environment.

Clearly written, practical, and requiring little knowledge of brain structure and function, Mild Traumatic Brain Injury provides all involved in client care with the tools they need to ensure good outcomes. Of particular value will be the near-unique coverage of the the mechanisms underlying blast-induced neuro-trauma.

Classics in Rhinology is an effective resource well suited for anyone who wants to review the history of rhinology for patient care, education, or just for enjoyment.

Here's How to Do Stuttering Therapy serves as a practical guide to provide stuttering therapy, based upon a well-articulated philosophy of the disorder. The book is a practical guide that provides readers with a solid rationale for assessment and treatment, but does not dwell on theories, philosophies, or specific programs.

This book embraces current best practice and the latest research on the assessment of voice by leading international clinicians and scholars in the professions. This text is a necessary and invaluable sourcebook for every undergraduate student, graduate student, and clinician in his/her early career.

This much-anticipated scholarly volume promises to be an essential/must-have resource for anyone who is interested in natural language acquisition, the development of reading, and academic achievement of deaf and hard of hearing children. It is a compilation of research and practical applications of cued speech and cued language.

his new book, based around a large-scale study, examines how closely the developmental trajectories of children with hearing loss matches those of children with normal hearing. The book unpacks many ideas that have been cornerstones of intervention for young children with hearing loss, and the source of much controversy.

This unique book presents best evidence and practices from experts in the fields of gastroenterology, allergy, otolaryngology, surgery and pulmonology to best understand the current clinical challenges in this field and to help all subspecialties that interact with this group of patients. It outlines diagnostic and management strategies.

Featuring contributions from a stellar team of expert contributors in the areas of audiology, psychology, anatomy, neuroscience, imaging science, and epidemiology, this new book addresses major controversies in the field of auditory processing and its disorders. The contributors consider a range of topics including the history of the field.

An overview of a decades-long research effort to improve cochlear implants (CIs). The book may be used as a primary text on CIs, or as a reference for physicians, audiologists, neuroscientists, designers of neural prostheses, and other specialists whose work is aimed at the remediation of hearing loss.

Dysphagia Post Trauma is a premier book in the Clinical Dysphagia Series. The authors are world renown for their research and clinical insights into the often-challenging patterns of dysphagia caused by a variety of traumatic conditions. This book, like all the books in this series, is written with the practicing clinician in mind.

Even though exactly 150 years have passed since The Art of Singing was first published, Bassini's method is just as valid today as it was when it was written. The book is not just an historically interesting document, it defines a method of bel canto. It contains the vocal wisdom of the 18th and 19th centuries.