PATHOLOGY & LABORATORY MEDICINE
Dysphagia: Basic Assessment and Management
This chapter presents the current status of dysphagia management in acute-care hospitals, focusing on the speech-language pathologist’s (SLP’s) involvement from the time of the initial consultation until the patient is…
Assessment and Management of Traumatic Brain Injury
This chapter provides an overview of the role of the speech-language pathologist (SLP) in the management of individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Although the discussion includes specific reference to…
The Physical Basis of the Communication Chain
The Brain If the human brain is compared to the brains of other species, there are two major differences that will be noted. First of all, the size of the…
Approaches to Language Disability
A Scientific Approach Early in the sixteenth century, Nicolaus Copernicus carefully observed the movements of the planets and stars and formulated the belief that, contrary to the established view that…
The Classification of Linguistic Pathologies
Production Disorders versus Reception Disorders This classification would seem to follow on nicely from the communication chain model presented in Chapter 3. But it should be plain, following our discussion…
The Communication Chain
Sometimes the whole process is collapsed into three main stages: and this in fact will be the usual use of these terms below. Production will refer to the whole process…
