Clinical Aphasiology

Martin J. Ball is Hawthorne-Board of Regents’ Support Fund Endowed Professor, Head of the Department of Communicative Disorders, and Director of the Doris B. Hawthorne Center for Special Education and Communication Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (London). Dr Ball has authored and edited twenty books, over 30 contributions to collections and over seventy refereed articles in academic journals. He is co-editor of the journal Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. His main research interests include clinical phonetics and phonology, and the linguistics of Welsh. He is currently President of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association. Jack S. Damico holds the Doris B. Hawthorne Eminent Scholar Professorship in Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. He has published over 80 articles and chapters in the areas of applied linguistics, clinical aphasiology and language pathology. His primary interests are in clinical aphasiology and the study of language as a synergistic phenomenon. He has authored, co-authored or edited eight professional books.

M. J. Ball, J. S. Damico, Preface. Chris Code’s Contribution to Aphasiology. Part I: Conceptual Considerations. M. Herrmann, T. Fehr, Investigations in Speech and Language and Related Disorders: Crossing the Boundaries between Disciplines—a tribute to Chris Code. H. W. Buckingham, S. S. Christman, Independent Evidence for the Unification of Explanatory Paradigms in the Neurosciences. S. McDonald, The Social and Neuropsychological Underpinnings of Communication Disorders after Severe Traumatic Brain Injury. L. L. LaPointe, K. L. Lenius, Social Validation of Recovery in Aphasia. J.S. Damico, M. J. Ball, N. N. Simmons-Mackie, N. Müller, Interactional Aphasia: Principles and Practices Oriented to Social Intervention. Part II: Research Considerations. J.-L. Nespoulous, J. Virbel, From the Study of Language Dysfunction and Handicap to a Better Understanding of Linguistic Processing in Normality. I. Moen, Production and Perception of Word Tones in Patients with Brain Damage. B.E. Murdoch, Subcortical Aphasia: Historical Perspective and Contemporary Thinking. T. Bormann, G. Blanken, C.-W. Wallesch, Mechanisms of Lexical Selection and the Anomias. N. Müller, A. Kozlowski, P. Doody, Repetitive Verbal Behaviours in PML: An Exploratory Study of Conversation. A. Ferguson, Multiparty Interactions in Aphasia. E. Armstrong, H. K.Ulatowska, Stroke Stories: Conveying Emotive Experiences in Aphasia. Part III: Clinical Considerations. A.L. Holland, Counseling Families and Adults with Speech and Language Disorders: The View from a Wellness Perspective. C. Penn, Cultural Dimensions of Aphasia: Adding Diversity and Flexibility to the Equation. S. Edwards, R. Bastiaanse, Assessment of Aphasia in a Multi-lingual World. R.C. Katz, R.T. Wertz, Computerized Aphasia Treatment Outcomes Research: The Past and a Proposal. L. Togher, Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation: Advanced Communication Training Perspectives. Y. Joanette, M. Champagne-Lavau, K. Kahlaoui, B. Ska, The Future of our Knowledge about Communication Impairments Following a Right-hemisphere Lesion. M. Pachalska, Progressive Language and Speech Disorders in Dementia. Author Index. Subject Index.