Speech and Hearing Science

Description

• Updated throughout.

• Vastly improved reproduction of original anatomical photographs enhance educational value.

• Contains numerous new illustrations including photographs of brain sections and two-color illustrations of musculature.

• Current findings have been added, historical contents have been condensed, and some nonessential material has been eliminated.

• Chapter opening illustrations have been added along with a new two-color format and four color cover to increase visual impact and improve readability for the student.

Finely illustrated and exceptionally readable, this fourth edition of the leading text in Speech and Hearing Science, is dedicated to the habilitation and rehabilitation of the speech and hearing impaired. This comprehensive and highly popular text provides a solid foundation in the anatomy and physiology of respiration, phonation, articulation, neurology, and hearing.

Now in its fourth edition, this classic text has been thoroughly updated and features a highly readable format, clearer illustrations, and the addition of a second color. Clinically relevant materials punctuate the entire text, as well as in-depth supplemental and clinical notes. Key terms are boldfaced, and numerous new illustrations create dramatic visual impact.

Finely illustrated and exceptionally readable, this 4th edition of the leading text in Speech and Hearing Science, is dedicated to the habilitation and rehabilitation of the speech and hearing impaired. This comprehensive and highly popular text provides a solid foundation in the anatomy and physiology of respiration, phonation, articulation, neurology, and hearing.

Now in its 4th edition, this classic text features a highly readable format, clearer illustrations, and the addition of a second colour. Clinically relevant materials punctuate the entire text, as well as in-depth supplemental and clinical notes. Key terms are boldfaced, and numerous new illustrations create dramatic visual impact.

Most chapters begin with “Introduction” and conclude with “Bibliography and Reading List.”

1.Introduction and Orientation.

2.Breathing.

3.Phonation.

4.Articulation.

5.The Nervous System.

6.Hearing.

7.Embryology of the Speech and Hearing Mechanism.

8.Circulation.

Postscript.

Glossary.

Name Index.

Subject Index.