TY - BOOK AU - Harrison,Alan E. TI - Speech Disorders: Causes, Treatment and Social Effects T2 - Languages and Linguistics SN - 9781617619168 AV - RC423 -- .S63827 2010eb U1 - 616.85/5 PY - 2009/// CY - Hauppauge PB - Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated KW - Speech disorders KW - Language disorders KW - Communicative disorders KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- SPEECH DISORDERS: CAUSES, TREATMENT AND SOCIAL EFFECTS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- SPEECH AND VOICE DISORDERS IN PARKINSON'S DISEASE -- INTRODUCTION -- I. DESCRIPTION OF PARKINSONIAN DYSARTHRIA -- I.1. Speech Respiration -- I.2. Phonation -- I.3. Resonance -- I.4. Articulation -- I.5. Prosody -- I.6. Sensory and Perceptual Deficits -- II. TREATMENT -- II.1. Pharmacological Treatment -- II.2. Surgical Treatment -- II.3. Speech Therapy -- III. METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES -- III.1. Normal Variations in Speech Production -- III.2. Task Dependency -- III.3. Methodological Differences -- III.4. Heterogeneity of PD Patients -- IV. PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF SPEECH IMPAIRMENT IN PD -- REFERENCES -- SPEECH AND LITERACY: THE CONNECTION AND THE RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL POPULATIONS -- ABSTRACT -- THE SPEECH-LITERACY CONNECTION: THEORETICAL BASES -- SPEECH-RELATED SKILLS OF CHILDREN WITH LITERACY DIFFICULTIES -- Early Identification -- LITERACY-RELATED SKILLS OF CHILDREN WITH SSD -- Persisting Speech Problems -- Concomitant Language Skills -- Childhood Apraxia of Speech -- Severity of Speech Disorder -- Speech Sound Error Types -- THE ROLE OF PHONOLOGICAL SHORT-TERM MEMORY -- Phonological Short-Term Memory in Children with SSD -- Method -- Results -- Discussion -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- IMAGING OF BRAIN FUNCTION WITH POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND ITS ROLE IN APHASIA RESEARCH -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- A SHORT HISTORY OF PET -- Data Correction and Image Reconstruction -- PARAMETERS FOR ACTIVATION STUDIES -- Performance and Analysis of Functional Studies -- Limitations for PET Activation Studies -- FUNCTIONAL ACTIVATION IN HEALTHY SUBJECTS -- Visual System -- Auditory System -- Motor and Somatosensory Activation -- Language -- Cognition and Memory -- ACTIVATION PATTERNS IN BRAIN DISEASE -- POSTSTROKE APHASIA; Disturbance of Regional Metabolism and Flow versus Severity and Persistence of Language Deficit -- Changes in Activation Patterns versus Recovery of Language Function -- Effect of Treatment in Poststroke Aphasia -- Combination of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) with Activated Imaging -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- USING SPANISH IN THE HOME TO PROMOTE SCHOOL READINESS IN ENGLISH -- ABSTRACT -- The Case for Intervention in the Home Language -- The Intervention -- METHOD -- Participants -- Materials and Procedure -- Measures of Treatment Effect -- Kindergarten testing -- RESULTS -- Rates of Completion and Attrition -- The PLS-III in Spanish at Intake and after Each Year of Treatment -- Kindergarten Testing in Spanish and English -- DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX B. MATERIALS FOR PARENT SURVEY: -- NEW FRONTIERS IN UNDERSTANDING SPEECH SOUND DISORDER: UNRAVELING THE MYSTERIES OF GENETIC CAUSES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- The Quest to Understand the Biological Substrates of Speech Sound Dissorder -- Terminology and Tools in Genetics -- Reasons to Study SSD Genetics -- Behavioral Genetics Studies in SSD -- Molecular Genetics Studies in SSD -- METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- TREATMENT OUTCOMES OF THE INTENSIVE STUTTERING THERAPY FOR ADOLESCENTS AND ADULTS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- The Problem of Stuttering -- Intensive Therapy for Adults and Adolescents Who Stutter -- Structure of the Multifaceted Program for People Who Stutter -- METHODS -- Criteria 1. The Characteristics of the Participants Must Be Described -- Criteria 2. The Nature of the Therapy Delivered Needs to be Described in Detail; Criteria 3. The Outcome or Measures of Success Must be Clearly Defined, They Must be Measurable, and All Treatment Goals Must be Measured Appropriately -- Criteria 4. All the Changes in Treatment, Both Positive and Negative, Must be Measured, Analyzed, Compared, and Reported Clearly -- RESULTS -- Quantitative Data -- Qualitative Data -- Follow-up Therapy -- CONCLUSION -- Outcomes of Treatment -- Future Directions for This Program -- REFERENCES -- IS PROSODY A DIAGNOSTIC AND COGNITIVE BELLWETHER OF AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS? -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- WHY PROSODY? -- PROSODY AND AUTISM -- PROSODY AS A DIAGNOSTIC BELLWETHER OF ASDS -- Relationship of Prosody to Core Impairments in ASDs -- Prosody and Nosology -- Prosody as an Early Diagnostic Marker -- PROSODY AS A COGNITIVE BELLWETHER OF ASDS -- Theory of Mind -- Executive Functioning -- Intermodal Integration -- Prosody as an End-State Behavior for Cognition -- TREATMENT OF PROSODIC DEFICITS IN AUTISM -- CONCLUSION -- AUTHOR NOTE -- REFERENCES -- THE MULTI DIMENSIONAL VOICE PROGRAM (MDVP) IN CONJUNCTION WITH OTHER TESTS IN THE EVALUATION OF SPEECH AND VOICE DISORDERS: OUR EXPERIENCE -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- SPEECH AND VOICE PRODUCTION -- PROTOCOL -- Mirror-Fogging Test -- Gutzmann Test -- Voice Handicap Index -- Test of Van Borsel -- Multidimensional Voice Program (MDVP) -- PERSONAL EXPERIENCES -- 1. TONSILLECTOMY -- 2. UVULOPALATOPHARYNGOLPLASTY -- 3. SEPTOPLASTY -- 4. MICROLARYNGOSCOPY -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX: BALANCED SENTENCES -- Oronasal Sentences -- Oral Sentences -- Nasal Sentences -- REFERENCES -- LEARNING DISABILITIES AND MATHEMATICS IN HIGHER EDUCATION -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- Widening Participation -- Dyslexia -- Memory Acquisition and Retrieval -- Hierarchical Nature of Mathematics -- Concepts and Conflicts -- Common Cognitive Paths (CCP); Observations of Student Learning -- Fundamental Number -- Fractions -- ALGEBRAIC MANIPULATION -- Denominators -- Visual Impact -- Symbol Conventions and Layout -- Statistics -- Hierarchy of Mathematical Concepts -- Differentiated Pedagogy -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- SPEECH EVALUATION AND SPEECH REHABILITATION AFTER ORAL AND OROPHARYNGEAL CANCER TREATMENT -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- Method -- Results -- COMMENT -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- AUDIENCE EFFECTS ON STUTTERING: A JAPANESE CASE STUDY -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. METHOD -- 2.1. Subject -- 2.2. Test Material -- 2.3. Procedure -- 2.4. Dependent Variables -- 3. RESULTS -- 3.1. Stuttering Frequency -- 3.2. Speech Rate -- 3.3. Fundamental Frequency -- 3.4. Some More Exploratory Analysis of the Relation between Stuttering and F0 -- 3.5. The Adaptation Effect -- 4. DISCUSSION -- 4.1. Stuttering Frequency and Speech Rate -- 4.2. The Relation between Stuttering and F0 -- 4.3. Further Questions -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- SILENT CHILDREN: UNDERSTANDING AND TREATING SELECTIVE MUTISM -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- ETIOLOGY -- TREATMENT -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- ORIGINS OF THE MUSCLES OF THEHUMAN TONGUE -- INTRODUCTION -- WHAT IS THE PROTOTYPE OF THE TONGUE? -- The Tongue of the Shark -- WHERE THE MUSCLES OF THE HUMAN TONGUE ORIGINATED FROM? -- Transverse Lingual Muscle and Palatoglossus Muscle -- Superior and Inferior Longitudinal Lingual Muscles -- Vertical Lingual Muscle -- A NEW THEORY OF THE ORIGINATION FOR THEHUMAN TONGUE -- REFERENCES -- EFFECTIVENESS OF SPEECH RATE-CONVERSION SOFTWARE FOR PATIENTS WITH DYSARTHRIA -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODS -- Subjects -- Recording Procedures -- Speech Intelligibility and Speech Naturalness -- Scoring by the Listeners -- Severity Level -- Method Reliability -- RESULTS -- Speech Intelligibility -- Speech Naturalness; DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- SPEECH PROBLEMS IN DYSLEXIA: EVIDENCE FROM AUDITORY AND VISUAL SPEECH PERCEPTION -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODS -- A. Participants -- B. Design -- C. Stimuli and Apparatus -- D. Procedure -- E. Scoring -- F. Analysis -- RESULTS -- The /ada/-/aga/ Continuum -- The /aba/-/awa/ Continuum -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3017847 ER -