Psychology: Aphasia

Edited by Kate H. Meredith, Giles N. Yeates

Psychotherapy and Aphasia: Interventions for Emotional Wellbeing and Relationships is an exciting international collaboration among clinical neuropsychologists, speech and language therapists and family therapists that details a range of innovative psychotherapeutic interventions to enable…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
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The Neuro-Disability and Psychotherapy Series

Edited by Marlene Behrmann, Karalyn Patterson

To understand mental function, we need to uncover the representations and processes underlying our ability to comprehend and to produce words, sentences,numbers and objects (or pictures of them). The unique contribution of the field of cognitive neuropsychology is the investigation of these…

Paperback – 2019-02-04
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Special Issues of Cognitive Neuropsychology

By Leopold Stein

Originally published in 1942, this title was recognised as setting new standards in the scientific approach to speech problems. Much speech therapy in the past had been unsatisfactory because of its emphasis upon the purely mechanical aspects of the condition, while at the same time the purely…

Hardback – 2018-11-05
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Psychology Library Editions: Speech and Language Disorders

Edited by Chris Code, Donald B. Freed

This book examines the rehabilitation of language disorders in adults, presenting new research, as well as expert insights and perspectives, into this area. The first chapter presents a study on personalised cueing to enhance word finding. Cynthia K. Thompson and her colleagues contribute a chapter…

Paperback – 2018-09-10
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By David Howard, Frances M. Hatfield

Originally published in 1987, Aphasia Therapy surveys the approaches to aphasia treatment from throughout the world that have been taken both in the past and in the present day. The authors critically examine the assumptions underlying different approaches, and show their effects on modern clinical…

Hardback – 2018-08-28
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Psychology Library Editions: Neuropsychology

Edited by Ellen Hickey, Michelle S. Bourgeois

Person-centered care for persons with dementia has been developed and expanded over the last few decades. Speech-language pathologists are uniquely positioned to understand the striking impact that communication challenges have on persons with dementia and their caregivers, and can lead the charge…

Paperback – 2017-12-20
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By Alison Battye

Who's Afraid of AAC? is a clear and concise guide to Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) in the UK and will be an essential resource for all Speech and Language Therapists, educators, parents and carers supporting children with non-verbal communication. This book sets out to…

Paperback – 2017-08-17
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Edited by Paul Conroy, Matthew A. Lambon Ralph

This special issue of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation brings together seven newly published studies from a range of invited international researchers in the fields of language and memory disorders and their rehabilitation. The studies address a range of current themes within these fields.…

Paperback – 2017-07-27
Psychology Press
Special Issues of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

Edited by Roelien Bastiaanse, Cynthia K. Thompson

Agrammatic aphasia (agrammatism), resulting from brain damage to regions of the brain involved in language processing, affects grammatical aspects of language. Therefore, research examining language breakdown (and recovery) patterns in agrammatism is of great interest and importance to linguists,…

Paperback – 2017-06-16
Psychology Press
Brain, Behaviour and Cognition

Edited by Nadine Martin, Jamie Reilly

Research in language processing and language impairment has focused extensively on elements of linguistic representation that are accessed and retrieved in comprehension, repetition and production of words and sentences. These studies have provided important information about the effects of…

Paperback – 2017-06-07
Psychology Press
Special Issues of Aphasiology

Edited by Chris Code

Aphasia—from the Greek aphatos (‘speechless’)—describes impairments and disabilities in the use of language arising from, for example, strokes, trauma, tumours, surgery, or progressive brain deterioration. It includes problems with the expression and comprehension of language in speech, reading,…

Hardback – 2017-02-08
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Critical Concepts in Psychology

By Judit Druks

Contemporary and Emergent Theories of Agrammatism provides an in-depth review of the previous five decades of research on agrammatism focusing specifically on work which has been informed by linguistic theory. The final chapters reflect the recent turning point in the conceptualization of the…

Paperback – 2016-07-14
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