Product Overview
Speech-language clinicians who work with children have for a long time had
trouble obtaining clinical reference material designed specifically for
children. This comprehensive book furnishes the reader with a complete source of
information on assessment, treatment, and management strategies for children
with developmental apraxia, disarthria, and stuttering.
A Brandon-Hill
Selection.
Special features of this work include:
- More extensive coverage of several topics including
pediatric dysphagia and management of disfluency as a motor speech disorder - Contributing writers are clinicians actively working
with children - An innovative chapter on an integrated treatment
approach in developmental apraxia - Discussion of treatment efficacy issues, a particularly
timely topic
This timely book integrates neuroanatomical and neurophysiological
development issues with speech motor control and motor learning as a basis for
treatment planning and service provision. Written by some of the leading
clinicians and researchers in the field, it presents a strong theoretical
framework to view cases within, but also provides real clinical practical
information. Plus, information is presented in a manner that is easily applied
by clinicians and students.
