1st Edition

Communication and Swallowing Disorders in Infectious Diseases

Edited By Louise Cummings Copyright 2026
290 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines communication and swallowing disorders in the context of infectious diseases. The COVID-19 pandemic brought infectious disease to prominence in speech-language pathology. But the SARS-CoV-2 virus is only the latest pathogen in a long list of viruses, bacteria, parasites, and fungi that can compromise communication and swallowing in children and adults. This volume examines... Read more

List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Preface 

PART I: Speech, voice, and swallowing disorders 

1. Speech and swallowing in adults with oropharyngeal cancer related to human papillomavirus 
Sinead Rothrie, Kate Baker, Kate Ashforth and Grainne Brady 

2. Voice disorders in adults with laryngeal tuberculosis 
Andrea Migliorelli, Marianna Manuelli, Andrea Ciorba, Stefano Pelucchi, and Chiara Bianchini 

3. Laryngeal dystonia and upper respiratory tract infections 
Lisa A. Vinney and Maia Braden 

4. Voice disorders in recurrent respiratory papillomatosis 
Lindsey A. Parker and Melda Kunduk 

5. Stuttering and Group A streptococcal infections 
Per A. Alm 

6. Candidiasis in adults with swallowing disorders 
Simple Futarmal Kothari, Lene Odgaard, and Mohit Kothari 

PART II: Hearing and language disorders 

7. Hearing loss in children with congenital Zika virus infection 
Milaine Dominici Sanfins, Adriana Neves de Andrade Daniela Gil, and Piotr Henryk Skarzynski 

8. Hearing loss in children with congenital syphilis 
Ryan Rochat 

9. Hearing loss in children with congenital cytomegalovirus 
Ryan Rochat and Gail J. Demmler-Harrison 

10. Language disorders in adults with herpes simplex virus encephalitis 
Simone Mangelsdorf-Collett, Camille Paynter, Wendy Kelso, and Dennis Velakoulis 

11. Language disorders in adults with COVID-19 
Louise Cummings 

12. Language disorders in children with HIV infection 
Dorian Lee-Wilkerson 

13. Language disorders in adults with human immunodeficiency virus 
Lorena Abusamra, Bárbara Sampedro,and Valeria Abusamra

Index

 

Biography

Louise Cummings is Adjunct Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Visiting Professor at York St John University in the UK.