Aphasia and related neurogenic communication disorders / Ilias Papathanasiou, PhD, FRCSLT, ASHA Fellow, Associate Professor, Department of Speech and Language Therapy, Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece, Patras, Greece, Patrick Coppens, PhD, CCC-SLP, Professor, Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences, SUNY Plattsburgh, Platsburgh, New York.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Significant landmarks in the history of aphasia and its therapy -- Elements of neurology essential for understanding the aphasias -- Plasticity and recovery in aphasia -- Formal and informal assessment of aphasia -- Therapy approaches to aphasia -- Disorders of auditory comprehension -- Disorders of word production -- The acquired disorders of reading -- Written language and its impairments -- Disorders of sentence processing in aphasia -- Discourse and functional approaches to aphasia -- Quality-of-life approach to aphasia -- Living with aphasia: a client-centered approach -- Aphasia in multilingual populations -- Nature and assessment of right hemisphere disorders -- Treatment of right hemisphere disorders -- Traumatic brain injury in adult -- Dementia and related cognitive disorders -- Acquired apraxia of speech -- Dysarthria.