Handbook of Language and Speech Disorders

Jack S. Damico is the Doris B. Hawthorne Eminent Scholar in Communicative Disorders and Special Education at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is co-editor of the Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders . His books include Childhood Language Disorders (1995),Clinical Aphasiology: Future Directions(co-edited with M. Ball, 2007), and Special Education Considerations for English Language Learners (co-authored with E. Hamayan, B. Marler, and C. Sanchez-Lopez, 2007).Nicole Müller is a Hawthorne-BoRSF Endowed Professor of Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She is the founder-editor of the Journal of Multilingual Communication Disorders, and is now a co-editor, with Martin J. Ball, of Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics.  She is co-author of Approaches to Discourse in Dementia (2005), and co-editor of The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008).Martin J. Ball is Hawthorne-BoRSF Endowed Professor, and Director of the Hawthorne Center for Research in Communicative Disorders, at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. his most recent books are Clinical Sociolinguistics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005), Phonetics for Communication Disorders (co-authored with N. Müller, 2005) and Critical Concepts in Clinical Linguistics (co-edited with Tom Powell, 2009)

• List of Figures viiNotes on Contributors viiiIntroduction 1Jack S. Damico, Nicole Müller, and Martin J. BallPart I Foundations 91 Social and Practical Considerations in Labeling 11Jack S. Damico, Nicole Müller, and Martin J. Ball2 Diversity Considerations in Speech and Language Disorders 38Brian A. Goldstein and Ramonda Horton-Ikard3 Intervention for Children with Auditory or Visual Sensory Impairments 57Laura W. Kretschmer and Richard R. Kretschmer4 Intelligibility Impairments 99Megan Hodge and Tara Whitehill5 Genetic Syndromes and Communication Disorders 115Vesna Stojanovik6 Principles of Assessment and Intervention 131Bonnie Brinton and Martin FujikiPart II Language Disorders 1517 Autism Spectrum Disorders: The State of the Art 153John Muma and Steven Cloud8 Delayed Language Development in Preschool Children 178Deborah Weiss and Rhea Paul9 Specifi c Language Impairment 210Sandra L. Gillam and Alan G. Kamhi10 Pragmatic Impairment 227Michael R. Perkins11 Learning Disabilities 247Robert Reid and Laura Jacobson12 Reading and Reading Impairments 267Jack S. Damico and Ryan Nelson13 Substance Abuse and Childhood Language Disorders 296Truman E. Coggins and John C. Thorne14 Aphasia 317Chris CodePart III Speech Disorders 33715 Children with Speech Sound Disorders 339Sara Howard16 Dysarthria 362Hermann Ackermann, Ingo Hertrich, and Wolfram Ziegler17 Apraxia of Speech 391Adam Jacks and Donald A. Robin18 Augmentative and Alternative Communication: An Introduction 410Kathryn D. R. Drager, Erinn H. Finke, and Elizabeth C. Serpentine19 Fluency and Fluency Disorders 431John A. Tetnowski and Kathy Scaler Scott20 Describing Voice Disorders 455Richard Morris and Archie Bernard Harmon21 Orofacial Anomalies 474Jane Russell22 Speech Disorders Related to Head and Neck Cancer: Laryngectomy, Glossectomy, and Velopharyngeal and Maxillofacial Deficits 497Tim BressmannPart IV Cognitive and Intellectual Disorders 52723 ADHD and Communication Disorders 529Carol Westby and Silvana Watson24 Communication Defi cits Associated with Right Hemisphere Brain Damage 556Margaret Lehman Blake25 Traumatic Brain Injury 577Jennifer Mozeiko, Karen Lé, and Carl Coelho26 Dementia 600Nicole MüllerAuthor Index 626Subject Index 644