Fluent Aphasia

Informationen zum Autor Susan Edwards is Professor of Clinical Linguistics at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, University of Reading. Klappentext Provides a detailed! informative description of fluent aphasia! a disorder that severely impairs language. Zusammenfassung Fluent aphasia is a language disorder that follows brain damage! severely impairing the speaker's ability to communicate. In this informative study! Susan Edwards provides a detailed description of fluent aphasia! by drawing on a range of research data and looking at extensive examples of aphasic speech. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Fluent aphasia: identification and classic descriptions; 2. Descriptions of fluent aphasia; 3. Assessment and fluent aphasia; 4. Connected fluent aphasic speech; 5. Non-fluent and fluent aphasic speech; 6. Comprehension and processing problems in fluent aphasia; 7. The manifestation of fluent aphasia in one speaker; 8. Some concluding thoughts.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Edwards
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.09.2005
• EAN: 9780521791076
• ISBN: 978-0-521-79107-6
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics; Cambridge Studies in Linguisti; Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine