Motor speech disorders :  a cross-language perspective / 
edited by Nick Miller and Anja Lowit. 
 - xiv, 277 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm. 
 - Communication disorders across languages ;  12 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>List of contributors<br/><br/>1. Nick Miller and Anja Lowit: Foreword<br/><br/>Section 1<br/><br/>2. Nick Miller, Anja Lowit and Anja Kuschmann: Introduction: Cross-Language Perspectives on Motor Speech Disorders<br/><br/>3. Anja Lowit, Nick Miller and Anja Kuschmann: Motor Speech Disorders: What are they?<br/><br/>4. Anja Kuschmann, Anja Lowit and Nick Miller: Motor Speech Disorders: Issues in Assessment and Management<br/><br/>5. Michael Vitevitch, Kit Ying Chan and Rutherford Goldstein: Using English as a "Model Language" to Understand Language Processing<br/><br/>6. Martha Tyrone: Cross-Language Studies in Deaf Signers<br/><br/>7. Marina Laganaro and Mary Overton Vennett: Apraxia of Speech in Bilingual Speakers as a Window into the Study of Bilingual Speech Motor Control<br/><br/>8. Dora Colaco, Ana Mineiro and Alexandre Castro-Caldas: Phonological and Speech Output in Adult Nonliterate Groups<br/><br/>Section 2<br/><br/>9. Anita van der Merwe and Mia LeRoux: Dysarthria and Apraxia of Speech in Selected African Languages: Zulu and Tswana<br/><br/>10. Tara Whitehill and Joan Ma: Motor Speech Disorders in Chinese<br/><br/>11. Roel Jonkers, Hayo Terband, and Ben Maassen: Diagnosis and Therapy in Adult Acquired Dysarthria and Apraxia of Speech in Dutch<br/><br/>12. Danielle Duez: Some Segmental and Prosodic Aspects of Motor Speech Disorders in French<br/><br/>13. Bettina Brendel and Ingrid Aichert: German Language Contributions to the Understanding of Acquired Motor Speech Disorders<br/><br/>14. R. Manjula and Naresh Sharma: Motor Speech Disorders in Languages of the Indian Subcontinent: Some Perspectives from Hindi and Kannada<br/><br/>15. Masaki Nishio: Dysarthria and Apraxia of Speech in Japanese Speakers<br/><br/>16. Karin Zazo Ortiz, Maysa Luchesi Cera, and Simone dos Santos Barreto: The Nature, Assessment and Treatment of Dysarthria and Apraxia of Speech in Portuguese<br/><br/>17. Natalia Melle Hernandez, Maria-Teresa Martin-Aragoneses and Carlos Gallego: The Nature, Assessment and Treatment of Dysarthria and Apraxia of Speech in Spanish<br/><br/>18. Ellika Schalling: The Nature, Assessment and Treatment of Dysarthria and Apraxia of Speech in Swedish<br/><br/>19. Anja Lowit and Nick Miller: Afterword<br/><br/>Index 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781783092321 (hardback : alk. paper) 1783092327 (hardback : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2014009376 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Speech disorders.<br/>Motor ability.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RC423  / .M6173 2014 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>616.855 MIL; 1