Motor Speech Disorders
A Cross-Language Perspective
Nick Miller editor Anja Lowit editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Channel View Publications Ltd
Published:21st Jul '14
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This insightful exploration of motor speech disorders offers a cross-language perspective, enhancing understanding and clinical management of these complex conditions.
This book investigates the cross-language aspects of motor speech disorders, focusing on their assessment and treatment as well as the underlying neurophysiological and neuropsychological disruptions that lead to these disorders. Motor speech disorders frequently accompany a variety of neurological conditions, such as stroke, brain injury, and Parkinson’s disease, alongside many rarer conditions. By exploring these disorders from a cross-language perspective, Motor Speech Disorders aims to enhance understanding beyond the predominantly English-centric research and practice recommendations that have characterized the field thus far.
The text delves into how motor speech disorders are evaluated and treated in various countries, highlighting the differences in underlying speech impairments based on the language spoken. This approach not only broadens the scope of existing literature but also provides valuable insights into the unique challenges faced by individuals with motor speech disorders in different linguistic contexts. Furthermore, the book examines the neurological, neurophysiological, and neurophonetic characteristics of these disorders, emphasizing their significance for clinical rehabilitation.
By addressing these diverse aspects, Motor Speech Disorders contributes significantly to ongoing debates regarding the theoretical understanding and clinical management of motor speech disorders. It serves as a crucial resource for professionals in the field, fostering a more inclusive and comprehensive approach to assessment and treatment across languages and cultures.
This text will surely become regarded as a seminal text in the area of Motor Speech Disorders (MSDs). Despite the clear emphasis on providing cross-language insights, the researcher or clinician whose work is very much grounded in English-speakers would stand to benefit hugely from reviewing the opening chapters to gain new insight and direction into linguistic approaches to the description, diagnosis and treatment of MSDs.
-- Christopher Plant, Griffith University, Australia * LINGUIST List, 26.2999, 2015 *This is a fascinating, well-written and informative book...Reading this has left me energised, enthusiastic and excited about the potential in this area. The authors highlight that further research is essential across many languages. This will be exciting and innovative, so watch this space.
-- Sandra Polding, SLT, National Child Psychiatry In-Patient Unit for Scotland * Bulletin of the Royal College of Speech Language Therapists, April 2015 *This is a ground-breaking seminal work which assesses the state of knowledge in a wide variety of languages, lays the theoretical foundations for future research and is a much-needed complement to research in aphasia. It greatly enriches our understanding of the representation and organization of speech and language in the human brain.
* Jack Ryalls, University of Central Florida, USA *The real goal of speech motor control is communication, so to understand motor speech disorders we have to study them in context – in the full diversity of human languages in which they arise. This ground-breaking, engaging book will foster identification of universal and language-specific symptoms of motor speech disorders, and stimulate research on their assessment and treatment.
* Karen Croot, The University of Sydney, AustralISBN: 9781783092321
Dimensions: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
Weight: 588g
296 pages