
Research in Logopedics
Speech and Language Therapy in Finland
- 277 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Research in Logopedics
Speech and Language Therapy in Finland
About this book
This book links theoretical approaches of logopedics to clinical practices of speech and language therapy in Finland and in the Finnish language. It provides readers with interesting examples of and insights into the communication challenges in a language that differ substantially from those used in the majority of published reports in the field of language and communication disorders. With a short introduction to the Finnish language, and to the assessments methods used by Finnish speech and language therapists, the topics of the book cover themes such as speech and language development and its disorders, augmentative and alternative communication, acquired neurological communication disorders, hearing disorders and voice screening. Most of the authors of the 13 chapters are speech and language therapists by their basic education, and currently doing research in the field of logopedics in Finland.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- The Contributors
- Part 1 Introduction
- Part 2 Characteristics of Finnish and the Study of Child Speech and Language Disorders
- Part 3 Characteristics of Finnish and the Study of Adult Speech and Language Disorders
- Part 4 The Development of Speech and Language in Hearing Disorders, Sign Language and Cochlear Implant
- Part 5 Voice Disorders
- Index