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Communication Disorders ( General ) |
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PsychNet-UK
Communication Disorders (General) Information Sheet - Description,
Causation, Treatment, Associated Features, Differential Diagnosis
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Academy
of Aphasia - Is an international organization of researchers interested
in the study of language and the brain, with particular focus on people
with brain injury.The Academy of Aphasia is an organization made up
of researchers who study the language problems of people who have
neurological diseases. Some of these researchers also provide clinical
services to help people improve their language skills following strokes
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American
Speech-Language-Hearing Association The American Speech-Language-Hearing
Association is the professional, scientific, and credentialing association
for 145,000 members and affiliates who are speech-language pathologists,
audiologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists in the
United States and internationally.
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Communication
Disorders in Children - What is meant by a Communication Disorder. The
term COMMUNICATION DISORDERS encompasses a wide variety of problems
in language, speech, and hearing. Speech and language impairments
include articulation problems, voice disorders, fluency problems (such
as stuttering), aphasia (difficulty in using words, usually as a result
of a brain injury), and delays in speech and/or language. 3/5 |
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Conversations
with Neil’s Brain - The Neural Nature of Thought & Language.Childhood
apraxia of speech (CAS, also known as DVD -- developmental verbal
dyspraxia, and DAS -- developmental apraxia of speech) is a disorder
that is more easily defined by what it is not. It is not a muscle
disorder. 3/5 |
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Gerstmann
Syndrome Support Network - Is a National Non-profit Network which
was founded in September 1997. The Network offers mutual support and
education for persons with Gerstmann Syndrome, which causes an inability
to do math, express thoughts in writing, distinguish between right
and left, and distinguish one's own finger from another's .3/5 |
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Linguistic
Performance in the Short-Term Following Cerebral Commissurotomy -
By Joseph E. Bogen. 3/5 |
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Medicine
Online Text - Neurology - Aphasia from neurology perspective -
complete with self-test questions and references.Aphasia is an acquired
disorder of language due to brain damage. Aphasia does not include
(1) developmental disorders of language, often called dysphasia in
the United States; (2) purely motor speech disorders, limited to articulation
of speech via the oral-motor apparatus, referred to as stuttering,
dysarthria, and apraxia of speech; or (3) disorders of language that
are secondary to primary thought disorders, such as schizophrenia.
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MEDLINEplus
Medical Encyclopedia: Mixed receptive - expressive. - Mixed receptive
-expressive language disorder.- Some
children only have an expressive language disorder. Others have a
mixed receptive-expressive language disorder, meaning that they have
symptoms of both conditions.Children
with language disorders are able to produce sounds, and their speech
can be understood. 4/5 |
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National
Aphasia Association - Aphasia. An impairment of the ability to
use or comprehend words, usually acquired as a result of a stroke
or other brain injury. Aphasia is an acquired communication disorder
that impairs a person's ability to process language, but does not
affect intelligence.
Aphasia impairs the ability to speak and understand others, and most
people with aphasia experience difficulty reading and writing.
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Phonological
Disorders, Functional Speech Disorders, Apraxia, Dysarthria -
By Caroline Bowen 4/5 |
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Speech
Research Index - An excellent set of links to all aspects of speech
information. 4/5 |
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Speech
Therapy - WebRing - Speech Therapy, Speech Therapists (SLPs)
and their patients. Resources of interest to those groups. Aphasia
(aphasic patients), CVA,TBI, CHI. A WebRing. |
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Google
Scholarly Articles on Communication Disorders- Click
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Wikipedia
- Communication Disorders- Click
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