This new graduate level textbook, Cognition and Acquired Language Disorders: An Information Processing Approach, addresses the cognitive aspects of language and communication. It assembles the most recent information on this topic, addressing normal cognitive processing for language in adults, the cognitive impairments underlying language disorders arising from a variety of neurologic conditions, and current assessment and treatment strategies for the management of these disorders. The text is organized using an information processing approach to acquired language disorders, and thus can be set apart from texts that rely upon a more traditional, syndrome-based approach (e.g., stroke, dementia, and traumatic brain injury). This approach facilitates the description and treatment of acquired language disorders across many neurologic groups when particular cognitive deficits are identified. Other useful features of the text include assessment and treatment protocols that are based on current evidence. These protocols provide students and clinicians a ready clinical resource for managing language disorders due to deficits in attention, memory, linguistic operations, and executive functions.
1. SECTION ONE: Introduction - p. iii 2. Chapter 1: The cognition of language and communication - p. iii 3. Chapter 2: The effects of aging on language and communication - p. 12 4. Chapter 3: Neuropathologies underlying acquired language disorders - p. 36 5. SECTION TWO: Normal Processing - p. 60 6. Chapter 4: Attention: architecture and process - p. 60 7. Chapter 5: The role of memory in language and communication - p. 93 8. Chapter 6: Linguistic and psycholinguistic foundations - p. 120 9. Chapter 7: The executive functions in language and communication - p. 127 10. SECTION THREE: Cognition and Acquired Language Disorders - p. 166 11. Chapter 8: Language and communication disorders associated with attentional deficits - p. 166 12. Chapter 9: Memory disorders and impaired language and communication - p. 182 13. Chapter 10: Language processing disorders - p. 201 14. Chapter 11: Communication following executive dysfunction - p. 220 15. SECTION FOUR: Clinical Management of Acquired Language Disorders - p. 240 16. Chapter 12: Management of acquired language disorders associated with attentional impairment - p. 240 17. Chapter 13: Management of communication deficits associated with memory disorders - p. 272 18. Chapter 14: Treating communication problems in individuals with disordered language - p. 277 19. Chapter 15: Clinical approaches to communication impairments due to executive dysfunction - p. 325 20. Index - p. 343
This new graduate level textbook, Cognition and Acquired Language Disorders: An Information Processing Approach, addresses the cognitive aspects of language and communication. It assembles the most recent information on this topic, addressing normal cognitive processing for language in adults, the cognitive impairments underlying language disorders arising from a variety of neurologic conditions, and current assessment and treatment strategies for the management of these disorders. The text is organized using an information processing approach to acquired language disorders, and thus can be set apart from texts that rely upon a more traditional, syndrome-based approach (e.g., stroke, dementia, and traumatic brain injury). This approach facilitates the description and treatment of acquired language disorders across many neurologic groups when particular cognitive deficits are identified. Other useful features of the text include assessment and treatment protocols that are based on current evidence. These protocols provide students and clinicians a ready clinical resource for managing language disorders due to deficits in attention, memory, linguistic operations, and executive functions.
1. SECTION ONE: Introduction - p. iii 2. Chapter 1: The cognition of language and communication - p. iii 3. Chapter 2: The effects of aging on language and communication - p. 12 4. Chapter 3: Neuropathologies underlying acquired language disorders - p. 36 5. SECTION TWO: Normal Processing - p. 60 6. Chapter 4: Attention: architecture and process - p. 60 7. Chapter 5: The role of memory in language and communication - p. 93 8. Chapter 6: Linguistic and psycholinguistic foundations - p. 120 9. Chapter 7: The executive functions in language and communication - p. 127 10. SECTION THREE: Cognition and Acquired Language Disorders - p. 166 11. Chapter 8: Language and communication disorders associated with attentional deficits - p. 166 12. Chapter 9: Memory disorders and impaired language and communication - p. 182 13. Chapter 10: Language processing disorders - p. 201 14. Chapter 11: Communication following executive dysfunction - p. 220 15. SECTION FOUR: Clinical Management of Acquired Language Disorders - p. 240 16. Chapter 12: Management of acquired language disorders associated with attentional impairment - p. 240 17. Chapter 13: Management of communication deficits associated with memory disorders - p. 272 18. Chapter 14: Treating communication problems in individuals with disordered language - p. 277 19. Chapter 15: Clinical approaches to communication impairments due to executive dysfunction - p. 325 20. Index - p. 343
