Communication Disorders in Childhood Cancer (eBook)

Bruce E Murdoch is Director, Motor Speech Research Centre and Head, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Bruce's research interests are in physiological assessment and treatment of adult and child motor speech disorders including CVA, head injury, multiple sclerosis, brain tumour and Parkinson's disease; subcortical aphasia; language disorders in traumatic brain injury; speech and language disorders in childhood cancer. He is the founding editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing, and on the editorial boards of several other major publications. He is the Foundation President of the, Asia Pacific Society for the Study of Speech, Language and Hearing, and Vice-President, International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics.

1. Major Childhood Cancers, Leukaemia and Brain Tumour.

2. Effects of treatment for Paediatric Cancer on Brain Structure
and Function.

3. Language disorders in Children Treated for Brain Tumours.

4. Language Recovery Following treatment for Paediatric Brain
Tumours.

5. Variability in Patterns of Language impairment in Children
Following Treatment for Posterior Fossa Tumour.

6.language Disorders in Children Treated for Acute Lymphoblastic
Leukaemia.

7. Discourse Abilities of Children Treated for Neoplastic
Conditions.

8. Motor speech Disorders in Children Treated for Brain
Tumour.

9. Assessment and treatment of Speech and Language Disorders
Occuring Subsequent to Cancer therapy in Childhood.