Author: Michael Perkins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: impairment, pragmatic
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2008-01-28
List price: $108.00
ISBN-10: 0521790700
ISBN-13: 9780521790703

Pragmatics - the way we communicate using more than just language - is particularly problematic for people with speech disorders. Through an extensive analysis of how pragmatics can go wrong, this 2007 book not only provides a clinically useful account of pragmatic impairment, but it also throws light on how pragmatics functions in healthy individuals. Michael Perkins brings mainstream and clinical pragmatics together by showing that not only can our understanding of pragmatics be aided by the study of pragmatic impairment, but that clinical and theoretical pragmatics are better served by trea

Authors:Ian Laurence Bailey, Amanda Ball,
Publisher: AFB Press
Keywords: overview, impairment, visual
Number of Pages: 56
Published: 1990-08
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0891281746
ISBN-13: 9780891281740

Authors:Timo Erkinjuntti, Serge Gauthier,
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Keywords: impairment, cognitive, vascular
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 2002-04-25
List price: $449.95
ISBN-10: 1853179396
ISBN-13: 9781853179396

Helsinki Univ., Finland. Provides an international view of the natural history of vascular cognitive impairment and the achievement of primary and secondary prevention in this field. Features include conceptual basis and diagnostic criteria, diagnosis, course and management, and clinical aspects. Halftone illustrations, diagrams, and tables are also included.

Author: American Medical Association
Publisher: American Medical Association Press
Keywords: impairment, permanent, evaluation, guides
Number of Pages: 634
Published: 2007-12-15
List price: $189.00
ISBN-10: 1579478883
ISBN-13: 9781579478889

Updated and enhanced: Guides sixth offers the most current guidelines for correct impairment evaluation The newly revised Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, sixth edition, from the American Medical Association, emphasizes the fundamental skills physicians need to evaluate and communicate patient impairments. Standardized methodology is applied to each chapter to enhance the relevancy of impairment ratings, improve internal consistency and promote ease of application to the rating process. This ordered method enables busy physicians to become proficient with the ratings for mul

Author: Shirley Sahrmann PT PhD FAPTA
Publisher: Mosby
Keywords: syndromes, impairment, movement, treatment, diagnosis
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2001-09-04
List price: $74.95
ISBN-10: 0801672058
ISBN-13: 9780801672057

Authored by an acknowledged expert on muscle and movement imbalances, this well-illustrated book presents a classification system of mechanical pain syndrome that is designed to direct the exercise prescription and the correction of faulty movement patterns. The diagnostic categories, associated muscle and movement imbalances, recommendations for treatment, examination, exercise principles, specific corrective exercises, and modification of functional activities for case management are described in detail. This book is designed to give practitioners an organized and structured method of analyz

Author: Laurence B. Leonard
Publisher: The MIT Pre
Keywords: language, communication, speech, impairment, children, specific
Number of Pages: 347
Published: 2000-01-21
List price: $36.00
ISBN-10: 0262621363
ISBN-13: 9780262621366

Approximately 5 percent of all children are born with the disorder known as specific language impairment (SLI). These children show a significant deficit in spoken language ability with no obvious accompanying condition such as mental retardation, neurological damage, or hearing impairment. Children with Specific Language Impairment covers all aspects of SLI, including its history, possible genetic and neurobiological origins, and clinical and educational practice. The book highlights important research strategies in the quest to find the cause of SLI and to develop methods of prevention and t

Author: Robert D., M.D., Ph.D. RondinelliMarjorie, M.D. E
Publisher: American Medical Association Press
Keywords: guides, permanent, impairment, evaluation, sixth, ama, transition
Number of Pages: 429
Published: 2009-09-18
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 1603591109
ISBN-13: 9781603591102

This is a seamless transition to the "Guides Sixth". Ease your transition from "Guides Fifth" to "Guides Sixth" by first understanding and assessing the overview, conceptual changes and key changes in the impairment evaluations. It is ideal, not only for physicians, but attorneys, insurers, policy makers, legislators and executive branch government officials, as well as administrative personnel in government mandated public or private reimbursement systems. Allow medical and disability professionals help you assess the changes and controversies with the "Guides Sixth". "Transition to the AMA G