Counseling Skills for Neurogenic Communication Disorders

The profession has long awaited a volume dealing with neurogenic communication disorder counseling for adults and their families. This work's first author is Audrey Holland, who among many honors holds the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences. Add that to caring and thorough common sense guidance in the art of counseling as related to the specific needs of those with traumatic brain injury, stroke, primary progressive aphasia, dementia Parkinson disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Mix in principles of individual counseling, group activities, and family support groups, along with context-specific treatment for both acute and chronic situations, and one has a recipe for a classic that sets the standards for imitations sure to follow.-- Addresses the special needs of all neurogenic communicative disorders across the phases of disease progression or improvement.