A textbook for a first course, intended to clarify the rather untidy terminology of the discipline and to provide a broad and conservative foundation from which students can progress to different specialization or theoretical approaches. Crystal authored the 1980 and 1988 editions, and emphasized the processes involved in communication as a basis for understanding disorders in them; Varley joined with the 1990 third edition and adds more clinical and therapeutic perspective. Distributed in the US by Taylor and Francis. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
This new edition includes the introduction of the WHO distinctions between impairment, disability and handicap; an increased focus on information processing approaches to language disorders, and the introduction of revision questions as well as tutorial activities at the end of every chapter to support student learning.
Preface to the fourth edition. Preface to the third edition.
Preface to the second edition.
Preface to the first edition.
Acknowledgements.
Chapter 1 The scope of the subject.
Chapter 2 Approaches to language disability.
Chapter 3 The communiation chain.
Chapter 4 The physical basis of the communication chain.
Chapter 5 The classification of linguistic pathologies.
Chapter 6 Assessment and treatment of communication disorders.
Further reading.
Author index.
Subject Index.
David Crystal, University College of North Wales, UK and Rosemary Varley, University of Sheffield, UK.
