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.

A professional resource for clinicians and audiologists who serve children who wear hearing aids and their families, and can also be used in graduate courses for students in audiology, deaf education, and speech-language pathology.

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.

This book provides a practical overview of reflux laryngitis and other manifestations of laryngopharyngeal reflux. It is designed for use by otolaryngologists, primary care physicians, internists, gastroenterologists, general surgeons, speech-language pathologists, voice teachers, and patients.

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.

This collection of practical, real-world information and insights helps parents plan for the needs of their child with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The book combines current research and literature reviews with the experiences gleaned by the author as she has worked with families impacted by ASD for the past twenty years.

This book represents both a reference text and a collection of arguments about self-assessment of hearing abilities, the effects of hearing impairments, and the effects of interventions to address these impairments.

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.

Everyday Audiology, Second Edition is an invaluable guide for clinicians involved in the care of patients with hearing impairment or balance disorders. The book contains clinically relevant norms and values that are extremely useful for clinical interpretation. It is designed for easy consumption of essential information.

Pediatric Voice: A Modern, Collaborative Approach to Care offers a comprehensive and current review of the care of children with voice disorders. It includes an overview of anatomy and physiology of the pediatric laryngeal mechanism, associated neural controls, and phonatory behavior across childhood.

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.

For your patient's use this CD provides the proper pitch targets for each vocal function exercise task.

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.

Written for voice professionals, their teachers and those who care for their voices, this unique book covers voice acoustics, the effect of the acoustics of spaces on the voice, and how to make a voice recording properly. The book is wholly practical and written in a manner which is rooted in science but which is designed to enable understanding.

Though technological improvements have been steady in the field of speech development for children with hearing loss, training remains difficult, often frustrating, for clinicians and speech therapists. This 160 page guide is a handy resource for clinicians. Its contents include diagrams and descriptions, which blend pictures, words and sentences.

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.