Author : Dennis C. Tanner Ph.D.
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491724250
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)
Book Synopsis Simply Amazing: Communication Sciences and Disorders by : Dennis C. Tanner Ph.D.
Download or read book Simply Amazing: Communication Sciences and Disorders written by Dennis C. Tanner Ph.D. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ability to communicate is amazing. No other human ability is so complicated, so sophisticated, so important to civilizationand yet so taken for granted. How tragic would life be without the marvelous ability to communicate? In Simply Amazing: Communication Sciences and Disorders, Dr. Dennis C. Tanner explores the stages of the communication chain and examines the act of speech communication from the speakers thoughts to the listeners understanding of them. Relying on more than forty years of experience studying, teaching, researching, and providing clinical services in the communication sciences discipline, Tanner provides a frank and informative discussion about the subject, including both conventional and offbeat theories of human communication, unique and sometimes bizarre disorders, and intriguing patients. Through anecdotes, examples, illustrations, case studies, and personal asides of the amazing human ability to communicateas well as the myriad disorders, defects, delays, and disabilities that can lay waste to itSimply Amazing: Communication Sciences and Disorders provides keen insight into the world of communication.