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Preface
Acknowledgements
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1 The Study of Communication Disorders
1.1 Why study communication disorders?
1.2 Human communication: processes and breakdown
1.3 Significant clinical distinctions
1.4 Disciplines converging on the study of communication disorders
1.4.1 Linguistics
1.4.2 Medicine
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2 Developmental Speech Disorders
2.1 The classification of developmental speech disorders
2.2 Cleft lip and palate
2.3 Developmental dysarthria
2.4 Developmental verbal dyspraxia
2.5 Assessment and treatment
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3 Developmental Language Disorders
3.1 The classification of developmental language disorders
3.2 Developmental phonological disorder
3.3 Specific language impairment
3.4 Language disorder in intellectual disability
3.5 Language in autism spectrum disorders
3.6 Assessment and treatment
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4 Acquired Speech Disorders
4.1 Acquired speech disorders and their causes
4.2 Glossectomy
4.3 Acquired dysarthria
4.4 Apraxia of speech
4.5 Assessment and treatment
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5 Acquired Language Disorders
5.1 Acquired language disorders and their causes
5.2 Acquired aphasia
5.3 Right-hemisphere language disorder
5.4 Language disorder in traumatic brain injury
5.5 Language disorder in dementia
5.6 Assessment and treatment
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6 Communication Disorders in Mental Illness
6.1 Psychiatry and communication disorders
6.2 Communication in schizophrenia
6.3 Communication disorders in other mental illnesses
6.3.1 Emotional and behavioural disorders
6.3.2 Bipolar disorder
6.4 Gender dysphoria
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7 Disorders of Voice
7.1 The classification of voice disorders
7.2 Organic voice disorders
7.2.1 Structural aetiology
7.2.2 Neurological aetiology
7.2.3 Other aetiologies
7.3 Functional voice disorders
7.3.1 Psychogenic voice disorders
7.3.2 Hyperfunctional voice disorders
7.4 Assessment and treatment
7.5 Communication after laryngectomy
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8 Disorders of Fluency
8.1 Fluency disorders
8.2 Developmental stuttering
8.3 Acquired stuttering
8.4 Cluttering
8.5 Assessment and treatment
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Glossary
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Index