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…
The Scope of the Subject
By any other name would smell as sweet (Romeo and Juliet, II. ii) A Question of Terminology It is an unfortunate irony that the subject which professes to deal with…
Assessment and Treatment of Communication Disorders
clinical linguistics1 Under the heading of psychology, the following range of subjects would be relevant: developmental psychology social psychology cognitive psychology abnormal psychology neuropsychology and neuroscience Several other fields of…
