Books published by Plural Publishing Inc

For students and professionals alike, this book provides an in-depth look at specific communication disorders affecting older adults, such as dementia and Parkinson's Disease, and the corresponding treatment, counseling, and impact on family life.

For speech therapists working with patients who stutter, this text presents a variety of therapeutic interventions and techniques along with practical guidelines that have been designed to alleviate distress in those who stutter.

For practicing clinicians and graduate students, this book presents the skills necessary to provide evidence-based best practice services to young clients struggling to gain functional communication skills and their families.

This book examines the educational challenges facing vulnerable or oppressed students including power relations, contexts, and situations that place students in positions of powerlessness.

Presents the principles of voice pedagogy from the perspective of both conducting and voice science in a user-friendly fashion, including helpful charts and simple anatomic diagrams. It also offers teaching methods from history and philosophy, medical and voice science, and pedagogical concepts from active musical experts.

Assessment of Motor Speech Disorders brings together a wide range of researchers to present a current summary of assessment and evaluation techniques for disordered speech, with both a clinical and a research focus.

Chermak and Musiek's two-volume, award-winning handbooks are back in newly revised editions. Extensively revised and expanded, Volume II provides expanded coverage of rehabilitative and professional issues, detailing intervention strategies for children and adults.

Endoscopic techniques have revolutionized many surgical specialties and allowed the gradual development of new, minimally invasive procedures. Otology is no exception. The aim of Endoscopic Ear Surgery is to explore the role of endoscopy in the evolution of otologic surgery, and to introduce the surgeon to basic and advanced techniques.

This seminal text provides a scholarly overview of current evidence-based approaches to emergent literacy intervention as a necessary component of clinical practice in speech-language pathology. Numerous books are available on the topic of emergent literacy, yet few are developed specifically for the speech-language pathologist.

Neurolinguistic Approach to Reading: A Guide for Speech-Language Pathologists Treating Dyslexia aids speech-language pathologists (SLPs) in assessing and treating dyslexia through an approach proven effective by national standardized tests, subjective evaluation, parents, teachers, as well as those in the field.

Clinical Evidence engages the reader with discussions on the neurobiological and clinical aspects of emotions in the human voice. Newest information on production, perception and dysfunctions affecting these aspects of vocal emotions are presented.

This text gives readers current, thoroughly illustrated, and data-driven information on all aspects of transoral surgery. The authors are pioneers in the field, having performed thousands of transoral surgery cases and publishing and lecturing extensively on the subject.