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This book brings greater attention to adult-onset neurological disorders little examined in existing speech-language pathology scholarship, featuring case studies of ten individuals with acquired brain injury in the presence of a complex neurological disorder.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Case study 1: Corticobasal degeneration
Case study 2: Progressive supranuclear palsy
Case study 3: Huntington's disease
Case study 4: Lewy body disease
Case study 5: Multiple sclerosis
Case study 6: Parkinson's disease
Case study 7: Motor neuron disease
Case study 8: Alcohol-related brain damage
Case study 9: Covid-19 infection
Case study 10: Guillain-Barré syndrome
Conclusion
Glossary
Appendix
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Louise Cummings is Professor in the Department of English and Communication at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research interests within the field of speech-language pathology are pragmatic disorders, and language impairment in neurodegenerative disorders. In 2020, she published the volume
Language in Dementia.
Zusammenfassung
This book brings greater attention to adult-onset neurological disorders little examined in existing speech-language pathology scholarship, featuring case studies of ten individuals with acquired brain injury in the presence of a complex neurological disorder.
