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This book provides a comprehensive review and discussion of aphasia and its related disorders, their corresponding clinical discourse symptoms that speech-language pathologists should address, and the different methods of discourse elicitation that are clinically- and research-oriented.
List of contents
Chapter 1 - Acquired Language Deficits Associated with Aphasia and Related DisordersChapter 2 - Elicitation Procedures of Discourse Samples
Chapter 3 - Clinical Assessment of Disordered DiscourseChapter 4 - Research-Oriented Frameworks for Narrative Analysis
Chapter 5 - Multi-Linear Transcription and Analysis of Oral Discourse
Chapter 6 - Multi-Modal and Multi-Level Analysis of Oral Discourse
Chapter 7 - Considerations for Treatment Options That Can Facilitate and Enhance Discourse Production
Chapter 8 - Considerations for Multilingual and Culturally-Diverse PopulationsChapter 9 - Further Directions of Clinical Discourse Analysis
About the author
Anthony Pak-Hin Kong is a professor and research scientist specialized in aphasiology at The University of Hong Kong. He is a world-renowned scholar in speech-and-language pathology and is currently Section Editor (Linguistics Section) of PLOS ONE and Editorial Board Member of Perspectives of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Special Interest Groups.
Summary
This book provides a comprehensive review and discussion of aphasia and its related disorders, their corresponding clinical discourse symptoms that speech-language pathologists should address, and the different methods of discourse elicitation that are clinically- and research-oriented.
