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.
Unique process-oriented approach organizes content by cognitive
processes instead of by syndromes so you can apply the information and
treatment approaches to any one of many neurologic groups with the same
cognitive deficit.
Cognitive domains are described as they relate to communication rather
than separated as they are in many other publications where they are
treated as independent behaviors.
A separate section on normal processing includes five chapters
providing a strong foundation for understanding the factors that
contribute to disordered communication and its management.
