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March 2005
Evaluation and Management of Speech Breathing Disorders
Principles and Methods
Thomas J. Hixon, Ph.D. and Jeannette D. Hoit, Ph.D.
461 pages. Hardcover 7x10 in.
ISBN10: 978-0-9763513-0-6 ISBN13: 0-9763513-0-7.
US$105.00 CAN$118.00 £66.00 AU$164.00
Price effective September 1, 2008
US$129.95 CAN$146.00 £82.00 AU$202.00
REVIEWS
“This is a terrific book and a wonderful contribution to the discipline and profession. It rolls into a single source much of what teachers, students, and clinicians need to know to take a step toward competence in the area. The style in which the book is written seems close to perfect. Its depth is disguised by its clarity and tremendously useful analogies and careful explanations. This is a book that should probably be on the desk of any clinician who works with people who have medically related speech disorders.”
Joseph R. Duffy, PhD - Mayo Clinic
“Evaluation and Management of Speech Breathing Disorders will be an instant classic. No other text has addressed the topic in such breadth and depth. Drs. Hixon and Hoit probably have published more research on the subject matter than anyone, and may be the two top authorities in the world on speech breathing and its disorders. This book is a must for anyone interested in breathing for speech.”
Ronald W. Netsell, PhD - Southwest Missouri State University
“vowed never to write a blurb for a professional book. That vow disappeared when I read Hixon and Hoit’s Evaluation and Management of Speech Breathing Disorders. This is a clinical book of the very best kind. It is specific and complete so that beginning or unsure clinicians can use it to initiate or improve their treatment of speech breathing disorders. It is wise enough to support experienced clinicians and researchers in creative expansion of their clinical or research armamentarium. It is also fun to read. The authors are clearly visible behind the words. I like the view and want them for my clinicians if I can’t breathe to talk.”
John C. Rosenbek, PhD - University of Florida
ABOUT THE BOOK
The FIRST text ever on speech breathing disorders! This text takes the reader from the laboratory to the clinic. A hallmark is its strong translational focus. Seven chapters lay out Preliminaries, Foundations of Breathing, Normal Speech Breathing, Evaluation of Speech Breathing, Management of Speech Breathing, Ventilator-Supported Speech Breathing, and Clinical Applications. Detailed table of contents. Review.
Included in this edition are 461 pages of text, 28 original figures, 7 new clinical forms (including a bedside evaluation protocol), 54 sidetracks (asides of historical and modern interest), 8 instructional clinical scenarios, and 254 interdisciplinary references. This unique text offers coverage of all of the latest advances in this area, provides information never before published, and gives the clinician a user-friendly framework from which to approach client care. Aspiring and working speech-language pathologists, pulmonologists, respiratory therapists, and related professionals are the targeted audience.
The principles and methods discussed are applicable to clients with neuromotor disorders, voice disorders, and pulmonary disorders. Detailed evaluation protocols are included for case history, auditory-perceptual, physical, and instrumental examinations. Sixteen major sections are devoted to management methods. Special features include extensive coverage of speaking-related dyspnea and detailed sections on each of the five types of ventilatory support in individuals who cannot breathe on their own. Case scenarios focus on functional misuse of the breathing apparatus, low cervical spinal cord injury, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, high cervical spinal cord injury, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, respiratory myoclonus, cerebellar tumor, and muscular dystrophy.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Thomas J. Hixon, Ph.D., is Associate Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies, Research Integrity Officer, Director of the National Center for Neurogenic Communication Disorders, and Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences. He is also Principal Investigator on the National Center's Research Project on Normal and Abnormal Speech Production. In 1965 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, and from 1968-70 was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University. Dr. Hixon is a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
Jeannette D. Hoit, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, and a member of the Program in Neuroscience faculty, Motor Control Training faculty, and National Center for Neurogenic Communication Disorders faculty. She received her Ph.D. in Speech and Hearing Sciences from the University of Arizona in 1986 and later pursued postdoctoral study in the Respiratory Biology Program, Harvard School of Public Health, and the Speech Research Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Hoit's research and teaching interests include speech physiology as it relates to normal processes, particularly development and aging, and abnormal processes, particularly those associated with neuromotor speech disorders. She is currently focusing her research efforts on the areas of ventilator-supported speech and speaking-related dyspnea.
AUDIENCE
Primary:
Speech-Language Pathologists
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