"Designed for the introductory, undergraduate course in communication sciences and disorders, Communication Sciences & Disorders: From Science to Clinical Practice presents a broad view of the discipline in order to provide the student with a sense of the variety of topics that speech, language, and hearing scientists study and the variety of individuals that audiologists and SLPs treat. It is a contributed title, with each chapter authored by leading experts in the field. Pedagogical features include learning objectives, personal stories, study questions, and key terms. The book is also accompanied by videos which illustrate common and unusual cases"-- Provided by publisher.

An introduction to the discipline of communication sciences and disorders -- Communication across the life span -- The social and cultural bases of communication -- Speech science -- Developmental speech disorders -- Voice disorders -- Cleft lip and palate -- Fluency disorders -- Motor speech disorders -- Augmentative and alternative communication - Dysphagia -- Language disorders in children -- Acquired neurogenic language disorders -- Hearing science -- Hearing disorders -- Audiologic rehabilitation.