Davis, G. Albyn  1946- <br/><br/>
Aphasia and related cognitive-communicative disorders / 
G. Albyn Davis 
 - First edition. 
 - pages cm 
<br/><br/>1 INTRODUCTION TO ACQUIRED LANGUAGE DISORDERS<br/>Diagnosing aphasia<br/>Describing aphasia<br/>Explaining aphasia<br/><br/>Studying aphasia<br/><br/>Treating aphasia<br/>Summary and conclusions<br/>2 NEUROLOGICAL AND MEDICAL CONSIDERATIONS<br/>Neuroanatomy, neurophysiology<br/>Ischemic stroke<br/>Hemorrhage<br/>Tumor<br/>Focal cortical atrophy<br/>Clinical neurological examination<br/>Clinical brain imaging<br/>Syndromes of aphasia<br/>Exceptional aphasias<br/>Summary and conclusions<br/>3 INVESTIGATING LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENTS<br/>Word processing<br/>Detecting sentence comprehension deficits<br/>Explaining sentence comprehension deficits<br/>Word finding and retrieval<br/>Sentence production and agrammatism<br/>Summary and conclusions<br/>4 INVESTIGATING COMMUNICATION AND PARTICIPATION<br/>Cognitive pragmatics<br/>Prosody<br/>Nonverbal modalities<br/>Discourse and text<br/>Conversation<br/>Communication partners<br/>Life participation<br/>Summary and conclusions<br/>5 CLINICAL ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSIS<br/>The first visit<br/>Standardized testing<br/>Administering the formal test<br/>Documenting syndromes: The Boston Exam<br/>Syndromes quantified: The WAB-R<br/>Psychometric constraints: The PICA<br/>United Kingdom: CAT<br/>Revival: Eisenson's Examining for Aphasia<br/>Bedside screening and brief batteries<br/>Diagnostic decisions<br/>Aphasia in bilingual individuals<br/>Summary and conclusions<br/>6 SUPPLEMENTAL AND FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS<br/>Word comprehension<br/>Model-based assessment of reading<br/>Modular impairment: PALPA<br/>Sentence comprehension<br/>Word retrieval<br/>Verbs: Comprehension and production<br/>Speech disorders<br/>Severe aphasia<br/>Functional communication and outcomes<br/>Overall functional outcome<br/>Life satisfaction<br/>Summary in brief<br/>7 RECOVERY AND PROGNOSIS<br/>Stroke<br/>Recovery of language<br/>Approaches to prognosis<br/>Type of stroke<br/>Severity of impairment<br/>Type of impairment<br/>Other factors<br/>Bilingual recovery<br/>The targeted prognosis<br/>Explaining recovery<br/>Summary and conclusions<br/>8 TREATMENT OF LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT<br/>Rehabilitation team and settings<br/>Getting started<br/>Cognitive stimulation<br/>Measurement and generalization<br/>Word-finding and retrieval<br/>Computer-assisted treatment<br/>Efficacy of impairment-based treatment<br/>The brain with treatment<br/>Health care topics<br/>Summary and conclusion<br/>9 SPECIALIZED TREATMENTS FOR IMPAIRMENTS<br/>Studying individual cases<br/>Sentence production<br/>Asyntactic comprehension<br/>Wernicke's aphasia<br/>Conduction aphasia<br/>Anomic aphasia<br/>Reading impairments<br/>Spelling impairments<br/>Severe or global aphasia<br/>Medical treatments<br/>Summary and conclusions<br/>10 FUNCTIONAL REHABILITATION AND PARTICIPATION<br/>The clinical-functional gap<br/>Functional stimulation<br/>Adaptive language strategies<br/>AAC: Alternative and augmentative communication<br/>Interactive therapies<br/>Life participation<br/>Psychosocial adjustment<br/>Summary and conclusions<br/>11 RIGHT HEMISPHERE DISORDERS<br/>Clinical neuropsychology<br/>Primary cognitive impairments<br/>Secondary impairments<br/>Cognitive pragmatics of RHD<br/>Discourse<br/>Conversation<br/>Clinical assessment<br/>Treatment<br/>Recovery and outcomes<br/>Summary and conclusions<br/>12 TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY<br/>Head trauma<br/>Neuropsychological assessment<br/>Primary cognitive impairments<br/>Personality and behavior<br/>Insight<br/>Language<br/>Discourse<br/>Cognitive-communicative assessments<br/>Cognitive rehabilitation<br/>Recovery and outcomes<br/>Summary and conclusions<br/>13 DEMENTIAS AND PROGRESSIVE APHASIAS<br/>Diagnosis and assessment of dementia<br/>Alzheimer's disease<br/>Other causes of dementia<br/><br/>Dementia of Alzheimer's type (DAT)<br/><br/>Language with DAT<br/><br/>Communicative and cognitive rehabilitation<br/>Medical treatments<br/>Primary progressive aphasia<br/>Summary and conclusions 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780132614351 0132614359 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2013016486 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Aphasia--Textbooks.<br/>Language disorders--Textbooks.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RC425  / .D3787 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>616.855 2 DAV