The handbook of language and speech disorders / edited Jack S. Damico, Nicole M�uller, and Martin J. Ball.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The Handbook of Speech and Language Disorders has been extensively updated and refocused to present a comprehensive survey of the latest research in communication disorders. Reflecting the rapid advances in the field, the second edition of this authoritative Handbook features in-depth coverage of the major disorders of language and speech. Accessibly structures into four sections, 26 contributions from leading experts explore current issues, landmark studies, and the main topics and themes in the fields of communication sciences and disorders. A series of foundational chapters covers a variety of important general principles irrespective of specific disorders. These chapters focus on such topics as labeling, diversity considerations, intelligibility, and principles of assessment and intervention. With an extraordinary breadth and depth of coverage in the most crucial aspects of this growing field, The Handbook of Speech and Language Disorders, Second Edition, continues to be an invaluable guide for clinicians and researchers, and a rich source of information for students in speech-language pathology, linguistics, psychology and education"-- Provided by publisher.

About the Author
Jack S. Damico is the Doris B. Hawthorne Eminent Scholar in Communicative Disorders and Special Education at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is co-editor of the Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders and he has published over 100 peer reviewed articles and chapters in the areas of language disorders in children, literacy, aphasia in adults, discourse studies, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, language testing and qualitative methodologies. He has authored or edited 16 books, special journal issues, and manuals.

Nicole Müller is professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences at University College Cork. She was born in Germany and educated in Germany, England, and Ireland. She held academic positions in England, Wales, the United States and Sweden, before joining UCC in 2017. She is the founder-editor of the Journal of Multilingual Communication Disorders, and is now a co-editor of Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. She has authored and edited 10 books, and over 50 peer-reviewed articles and chapters.

Martin J. Ball is Honorary Professor in Linguistics at Bangor University, Wales. He is co-editor of the journal Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, and has authored and edited over 25 books, 40 contributions to collections, and some 80 refereed articles in academic journals. His most recent books are Clinical Sociolinguistics (Wiley Blackwell, 2005), Phonetics for Communication Disorders (co-authored with Nicole Müller, 2005), Clinical Aphasiology: Future Directions (co-edited with Jack Damico, 2007) and Critical Concepts in Clinical Linguistics (co-edited with Tom Powell, 2009).