Handbook of Speech-Language Therapy in Sub-Saharan Africa (eBook)

Integrating Research and Practice
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2023 | 1st ed. 2023
XCV, 733 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-04504-2 (ISBN)

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This book synthesizes research on language development and communication disability in Sub-Saharan Africa and highlights best practices for providing speech and language therapy services to individuals with language, communication, and hearing disorders across the lifespan. The book brings together a wide range of international contributions from various disciplines, such as speech-language pathology, audiology, developmental psychology, language education, social work, neurology, neuropsychology, pediatrics, linguistics, pedagogy, and phonetics to provide perspectives on problems, challenges, ideas, concepts, and models to serve the people in Sub-Saharan Africa. 

Key areas of coverage include:

  • Challenges for speech-language therapists in the health sector.
  • Community awareness and the sustainable delivery of services.
  • Culture-specific support of communication and language development in early childhood.
  • Malnutrition, dysphagia, feeding difficulties, pediatric HIV, and related issues.
  • Communication disability treatments, including assessment and intervention, augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), and issues specific to bilingualism and biliteracy.
  • Inclusive education of children with communication disorders with case studies from Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya, and South Africa. 

The Handbook of Speech-Language Therapy in Sub-Saharan Africa is an essential reference for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and other professionals in developmental psychology, speech-language pathology and therapy, social work, neuropsychology, pediatrics, special education, community based rehabilitation, and all related disciplines.


Ulrike M. Lüdtke, Ph.D., is professor and the head of the Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Inclusive Education, the Leibniz Lab for Relational Communication Research, and the Speech Clinic at the Institute for Special Education at Leibniz University Hanover, Germany. From 2009 until 2011, she was dean of research at the Faculty of Humanities at Leibniz University. Her research focuses on language and emotion, development of digital tools for analysing language and communication (TALC), Relational models of language acquisition, international comparative speech-language pathology, language and communication development under diverse circumstances, and multilingualism. In a variety of different research projects, she cooperates internationally with universities, labs, and institutions in Paris, Edinburgh, the United States, India, and East and South Africa. Her last book publications have been on Emotion in Language (Benjamins, 2015) and on Speech-Language Therapy in Inclusive School Settings (Reinhardt, 2017).
Edward Kija, M.D., is a consultant paediatric neurologist and a senior lecturer at the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health of the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) and Muhimbili National Hospital in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. He completed his undergraduate and postgraduate training at the University of Dar Es Salaam and MUHAS respectively. He subsequently received subspecialty training in Paediatric Neurology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and certified by the board of the College of Medicine of South Africa. His research and publications mainly focus on childhood onset epilepsy, neurodevelopment, autism, cerebral palsy, neurocutaneous conditions and stroke.
Mathew Kinyua Karia, Ph.D., is a lecturer at the Department of Early Childhood and Special Needs at Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya. He teaches in the area of speech and language pathology. He is one of the pioneers in training speech and language pathologist in Kenya. He is a consultant in the area of communication disorders with various hospitals in Kenya and internationally with organizations such as Operation Smile Inc., and Starkey Hearing Technologies. He holds a PhD (Cologne University, Germany) and a Master and a Bachelor degree ( Kenyatta University, Kenya). Dr. Karia's research focuses on the area of speech production, communication disorders, hearing impairment as well as literacy. 
Erscheint lt. Verlag 3.2.2023
Zusatzinfo XCV, 733 p. 375 illus., 279 illus. in color.
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie
Medizin / Pharmazie Gesundheitsfachberufe
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik
Schlagworte Augmentative and alternative communication in Sub-Saharan Africa • Bilingualism in children in Sub-Saharan Africa • Biliteracy in children in Sub-Saharan Africa • Communication disability in Sub-Saharan Africa • Communication disorders in Sub-Saharan Africa • Counseling strategies for children in Sub-Saharan Africa • Cultural and linguistic diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa • Cultural sensitivity in Sub-Saharan Africa • Globalization and Sub-Saharan Africa • Hearing impairment in children in Sub-Saharan Africa • Language assessment in Sub-Saharan Africa • Language development in Sub-Saharan Africa • Language intervention in Sub-Saharan Africa • Literacy in children in Sub-Saharan Africa • Participation and inclusion of students in Sub-Saharan Africa • Peer intervention in Sub-Saharan Africa • Professional development in Sub-Saharan Africa • Service development in Sub-Saharan Africa • Speech-language pathology in Sub-Saharan Africa • Sustainable services for children in Sub-Saharan Africa
ISBN-10 3-031-04504-1 / 3031045041
ISBN-13 978-3-031-04504-2 / 9783031045042
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