Communicative Disorders Related to Cleft Lip and Palate

Author: Kenneth R. Bzoch
Published: January 1997
Publisher: PRO-ED, Incorporated
ISBN: 0890797013
Hardcover Book
Number of Pages: 580

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This fourth edition text includes four decades of research in the basic science and diagnosis and management of communicative disorders related to cleft lip and palate. The information is organized into three major sections. Section I contains eight chapters related to general aspects. Section II, Diagnostic Aspects, includes 9 chapters spanning etiological factors, clinical and perceptual tests, and objective instrumental assessments. Section III offers six chapters of issues related to management considerations. The editor states that the emphasis of this text is on basic considerations of the nature and cause of cleft palate speech and related language disorders with focus on provisions for differential diagnosis and description of the most clinically effective documented treatment procedures. The editor appropriately targets his audience as the advanced graduate student and beginning professional. He has brought together an impressive group of 24 contributing authors, of which all of the first authors have many years of experience and are well known for their past contributions in their field of study. This 580-page text contains 23 chapters that are all central to the study and understanding of cleft palate. The chapters are well referenced with historical and current citations. Complete references are located at the end of each chapter. The text is illustrated with tables and figures. Given the edited nature of the book, some chapters are more liberally illustrated than others. There is a subject index that aids in the easy location of desired topics. The text does not include an author index. This fourth edition contains many chapters that are extensively rewritten andupdated. New chapters are also included, making this a truly comprehensive text. This text presents a thorough coverage of material written by leading scholars and is a valuable contribution to the understanding of communicative disorders related to cleft lip and palate. A new edition of the detailed resource charting the progress in understanding and treating persons born with clefts. The 23 papers discuss general aspects of the condition, diagnosis, and early preventive and later rehabilitative aspects of speech therapy. Several of the discussions are new to this edition, particularly in the areas of altered insertion of muscles of the palate in clefting, muscle fatigue, compensatory muscle function in speech, descriptions of genetic syndromes, new psychosocial theories of stigmatization relating to facial and speech disorder, and expanded procedures in primary and secondary surgery. . A new edition of a standard overview of the nature and management of such disorders. Provides state-of-the-art information in a series of 23 interrelated chapters. Contributors write with advanced graduate students and practitioners in mind in three parts: general, diagnostic, and habilitative and rehabilitative aspects. Bzoch, Kenneth R., PhD (Univ of Florida)The contributors represent the specialties of communication disorders, pediatrics, speech pathology, and dentistry. Most are from universities and academic medical centers in the U.S., with one each from Sweden and Brazil. Institutions prominently represented include Univ of Florida, UCSF, Univ of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign, and Univ of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Click to compare book prices for Communicative Disorders Related to Cleft Lip and Palate Communicative Disorders Related to Cleft Lip and Palate

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