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| Introduction | |
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| History of the Disabled | |
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| How the Disabled Person Reacts | |
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| Current Attitudes toward Disability | |
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| A Brief Look at the Professions | |
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| Basic Components of Speech and Language | |
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| The Speech Mechanism | |
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| Linguistic Elements | |
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| Speech Acoustics | |
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| Development of Speech and Language | |
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| Prerequisites for Speech Development | |
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| Sociocultural Factors | |
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| Reflexive Utterances | |
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| Babbling | |
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| Inflected Vocal Play | |
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| The First Words | |
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| Syntax: Learning to Talk in Sentences | |
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| Phonological Development | |
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| Semantics: The Development of Meaning | |
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| Prosody and Pragmatics | |
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| A Note on Aging | |
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| Speech Disorders | |
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| Definition | |
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| Articulation Disorders | |
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| Fluency Disorders | |
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| Voice Disorders | |
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| Emotional Aspects of Communication Disorders | |
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| Components of the Emotional Fraction | |
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| How the Speech-Language Pathologist Copes with These Problems | |
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| Developmental Language Disabilities | |
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| Nonverbal Children | |
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| Delayed or Deviant Language | |
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| Acquired Language Disorders in Children | |
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| Deterrents to Language Acquisition | |
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| Diagnosing the Language Problem | |
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| Language Therapy | |
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| Articulation and Phonology | |
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| Dialect Differences | |
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| Causes of Articulation Disorders | |
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| Analyzing Misarticulations | |
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| Correcting Misarticulations | |
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| Fluency Disorders | |
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| What is Stuttering? | |
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| Prevalence | |
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| The Onset of Stuttering | |
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| Development of the Disorder | |
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| The Etiology of Stuttering | |
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| Stuttering as a Self-Reinforcing Disorder | |
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| The Treatment of Stuttering | |
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| Cluttering | |
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| Voice Disorders | |
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| Classification Systems | |
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| Organically Based Disorders | |
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| Medical and Surgical Management | |
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| Functional Voice Disorders | |
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| Basics of Voice Evaluation | |
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| General Principles of Therapy | |
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| Laryngectomy | |
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| Alaryngeal Speech | |
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| Cleft Palate | |
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| Types of Clefts | |
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| Causes of Clefts | |
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| The Impact of Clefts | |
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| The Oral Cleft Team | |
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| Surgical Management | |
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| Prostheses | |
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| Speech Impairments | |
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| Assessment Procedures | |
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| Therapy Principles and Procedures | |
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| Aphasia and Related Disorders | |
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| Overview | |
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| Causes of Aphasia | |
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| Differential Diagnosis | |
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| Assessment of Communicative Disability | |
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| Approaches to Therapy | |
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| Prognostic Factors | |
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| Dementias | |
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| Neuropathologies of Speech | |
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| Dysarthria | |
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| Apraxia | |
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| Dysprosody | |
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| Cerebral Palsy | |
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| Traumatic Brain Injury | |
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| Therapy Considerations | |
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| Alternative and Augmentative Communication | |
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| Hearing and Hearing Impairment | |
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| The Hearing Mechanism | |
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| Prevalence of Hearing Loss | |
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| Determination of Hearing Acuity | |
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| Types of Hearing Loss | |
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| Causes of Hearing Impairment | |
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| Deafness | |
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| Amplification | |
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| Cochlear Prostheses | |
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| The Professions | |
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| Historical Overview | |
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| Career Options | |
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| Service Delivery Models | |
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| Specialization | |
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| Support Personnel | |
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| Professional Organizations | |
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| Standards Programs | |
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| Issues of Law and Ethic | |