Introduction to Communicative Disorders, Fifth Edition M. N. Hegde

Description Introduction to Communicative Disorders, Fifth Edition is an introduction to both the science of communication and the profession of communicative disorders, and shows how the field has evolved into a major scientific discipline and health-care profession. With a simple writing style that avoids jargon, this effective, well-organized teaching tool offers extensive and uniform coverage across issues and topics. This fifth edition incorporates feedback from instructors across the United States. Updates to this edition include the following: The Medical Speech–Language Pathology chapter is retitled Neurologically Based Communicative Disorders, and revised with current research information. The Special Topics in Speech–Language Pathology chapter has been extensively revised, and the topic of autism spectrum disorders has been updated to include the diagnostic criteria of the DSM-5. The audiology chapters have been revised extensively, with terminological changes reflected in t