List of Figures vii Notes on Contributors ix Introduction 1Jack S. Damico, Nicole Müller, and Martin J. Ball Part I Foundations 5 1 Labeling as a Sociocultural Process in Communicative Disorders 7Jack S. Damico, Nicole Müller, and Martin J. Ball 2 Diversity Considerations in Speech and Language Disorders: A Focus on Training 33Elena Babatsouli 3 Hearing Loss and Cochlear Implants 53David Jackson Morris and Daan Van de Velde 4 Intelligibility Impairment 81Katherine C. Hustad and Stephanie A. Borrie 5 Genetic Syndromes and Communication Disorders 95Vesna Stojanovik 6 Principles of Assessment and Intervention 110Bonnie Brinton, Martin Fujiki, and Robert Brinton Fujiki Part II Language Disorders 129 7 Autism Spectrum Disorders 131Patricia A. Prelock 8 Language Acquisition and Language Delay 152Paul Fletcher 9 Developmental Language Disorder 171Sandra L. Gillam, Sarai Holbrook, and Alan G. Kamhi 10 Pragmatic Impairment 192Louise Cummings 11 Learning Disabilities 209Christine Brennan 12 Literacy and Literacy Impairments 237Holly Damico, Jack S. Damico, and Ryan Nelson 13 Language and Literacy in the Context of Early Life Adversity 266Pamela Snow, Suze Leitão, and Natalie Kippin 14 Aphasia 286Chris Code Part III Speech Disorders 311 15 Children with Speech Sound Disorders 313Susan Rvachew 16 Dysarthria 334Ingo Hertrich, Hermann Ackermann, and Wolfram Ziegler 17 Apraxia of Speech 368Adam Jacks and Katarina L. Haley 18 Augmentative and Alternative Communication: An Introduction 391Kathryn D. R. Drager, Erinn H. Finke, and Elizabeth C. Serpentine 19 Fluency and Fluency Disorders 414John A. Tetnowski, Kathleen Scaler Scott, and Brittany Falcon Rutland 20 Describing, Assessing, and Treating Voice Disorders 445Richard J. Morris and Archie B. Harmon 21 Speech Disorders Related to Cleft Palate and Velopharyngeal Dysfunction 468Debbie Sell, Valerie Pereira, Yvonne Wren, and Jane Russell 22 Speech Disorders Related to Head and Neck Cancer: Laryngectomy, Glossectomy, and Velopharyngeal and Maxillofacial Defects 495Tim Bressmann Part IV Cognitive and Intellectual Disorders 529 23 ADHD and Communication Disorders 531Carol Westby and Silvana M. R. Watson 24 Communication Deficits Associated with Right Hemisphere Brain Damage 571Margaret Lehman Blake 25 Traumatic Brain Injury 590Karen Lê and Jennifer Mozeiko 26 Dementia 613Nicole Müller and Zaneta Mok Author Index 643 Subject Index 666

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