Assessment of Motor Speech Disorders

Twenty-eight researchers from the US, Europe, and Australia contribute 16 chapters to an up-to-date summary of assessment and evaluation techniques for disordered speech, for both clinical and research purposes. Coverage includes an overview of the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health (ICF) framework and its relevance to the assessment of individuals with motor speech disorders; research evidence regarding best practice in the assessment of established areas such as intelligibility and physiological function, and of recently developed topics such as conversation analysis, impact, and telehealth; and reviews of established and new research methods in phonetics/phonology, kinematics, imaging, and neural modeling, and their applicability and value for the study of disordered speech. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)