Description

This book attempts to bridge the gap between aphasia research and the rehabilitation of patients with this language disorder, making explicit the relationship between what is being rehabilitated and how to rehabilitate it. The author has run an aphasia rehabilitation unit for more than thirty years and draws on her considerable experience to provide researchers, clinicians, and their students and trainees in speech-language pathology and therapy, aphasiology, and neuropsychology with comprehensive coverage of the evolution and state of the art aphasia research and therapy.

Reviews

"It has been a pleasure and an honour to review this book . . . It is written in a charming and transparent style. The reader is taken along a long road effortlessly . . . I recommend this book to clinicians, researchers and all those who have an interest in aphasia and its treatment." --Renata Whurr in Brain

"This text heralds a new era in the integration of information on aphasia as we have come to know it. ...Basso's text makes its most striking contribution --narrowing the gap a bit further between aphasia research and the delivery of optimal therapy that enhances the quality of life for our patients." --Applied Neuropsychology

"...this impressive work provides a much needed foundation for integrating clinical and research knowledge. It is a thought-provoking and timely work, especially as our understanding of neural plasticity expands." -- JINS^

Product Details

336 pages; 22 halftones & line illus.; 6-1/8 x 9-1/4; ISBN13: 978-0-19-513587-9ISBN10: 0-19-513587-3

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