Chapter 5 Child language disorders in a pluralistic society Chapter objectives Readers of this chapter will be able to do the following: 1. Describe the distinction between language disorders and language…
Chapter 6 Assessment and intervention in the prelinguistic period Chapter objectives Readers of this chapter will be able to do the following: 1. Discuss the principles of family-centered practice for infants…
Chapter 10 Language, reading, and learning in school: what the speech-language pathologist needs to know Chapter objectives Readers of this chapter will be able to do the following: 1. Name roles…
Chapter 14 Intervention for advanced language Chapter objectives Readers of this chapter will be able to do the following: 1. State a rationale for providing treatment for communication disorders in secondary…
Chapter 12 Intervening at the language-for-learning stage Chapter objectives Readers of this chapter will be able to do the following: 1. List the elements needed in a plan for communication intervention…
Figure 8.1. Electrode positions and nomenclature of the combinatorial 10-10 system proposed by the American Electroencephalographic Society (1) and the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology (2). For consistency and ease…
Figure 5.1. Mesial temporal sclerosis. Coronal T2-weighted image from MRI without gadolinium in a 7-year-old male with temporal lobe epilepsy shows increased signal intensity and decreased size of the left…
Figure 35.1. Three types of “seizures” in the newborn: “electrographic only,” “electroclinical,” and “clinical only.” SIGNIFICANCE OF NEONATAL SEIZURES Incidence The incidence of seizures in the first 28 days of…
Video–EEG Equipment Most epilepsy centers use digital video–EEG acquisition systems for video–EEG monitoring. Digital video allows viewing of recorded events remote from the video–EEG monitoring area, provided the hardware and…
Figure 6.1. Morphology and histology of neuronal and glial elements in the neocortex. Rectangles and arrows indicate extended sections. In section 1, only a minor portion of the neurons is…
