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"For over a century, we've accepted the scientific consensus that cancer results from genetic disease due to chromosomal damage in cell nuclei. But what if cancer isn't a genetic disease after all? What if scientists are chasing a flawed paradigm, and cancer isn't a disease of damaged DNA but rather of defective metabolism as a result of mitochondrial dysfunction? What if that startling truth could revolutionize our understanding of other diseases...
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Being an assistant to the state medical examiner in Salt Lake City might sound like a dead-end job, but Rebekah Smith loves the mystery and challenge of determining the cause of death in the bodies delivered to their morgue. While analyzing the corpse of a one-hundred-year-old woman, Rebekah discovers some disturbing elements; not only was the woman a health centenarian, but she was also embalmed before anyone discovered she had passed away. When...
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Here the author, a physician and reporter, provides a landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, and a suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. She reconstructs 5 days at Memorial Medical Center and draws the reader into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and to maintain life amid chaos. After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the...
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This book provides a state-of-the-art account of voice research and issues in clinical voice practice. The contributors are all voice experts and bring a range of international perspectives to the volume, which includes chapters focusing on Australia, Belgium, Brazil, China, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan, the UK and the USA. This is a pioneering work that brings together previously unpublished cutting-edge research and evaluations of clinical practice....
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My child is not speaking yet. Or, my child is speaking but very little. Or, my child is speaking but we can't understand what is said. Is this normal? As a parent, it can be hard to know.
This book will help you to understand what speech development is typical at each age and what indicates that your child may be struggling. Written by a speech-language pathologist who has spent the last 30 years doing speech evaluations, this book will also guide...
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¿Su hijo cecea un poco, tartamudea, le cuesta aprender a leer, escribe mal, tiene dificultad con las matemáticas, comete muchas faltas de ortografía...? ¿Cree que puede ser disléxico? Por lo general, con un poco de paciencia, todo se arregla al cabo de unos meses. Sin embargo, en algunos casos existe un problema real. Ante esta situación es posible que el profesor de su hijo, o usted mismo, se haya planteado si debería examinarlo un logopeda....
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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...
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Early hearing detection and intervention (EHDI) is the gold standard for any practising audiologist, and for families of infants and children with hearing impairment. EHDI programmes aim to identify, diagnose and provide intervention to children with hearing impairment from as early as six months old (as well as those at risk for hearing impairment) to ensure they develop and achieve to their potential. Yet EHDI remains a significant challenge for...
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When deaf people interact with the medical system, access can mean the difference between life and death. Accommodations are not always intuitive to medical personnel, and not all deaf patients know how to explain why they need what they do. Interpreters, family, and friends of deaf people and patients themselves can either help or make it much worse. This publication unpacks each role and shows how by working together, a comprehensive individualized...
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This collection is a resource book for those working with language disordered clients in a range of languages. It collects together versions of the well-known Language Assessment Remediation Screening Procedure (LARSP) prepared for different languages. Starting with the original version for English, the book then presents versions in more than a dozen other languages. Some of these are likely to be encountered as home languages of clients by speech-language...
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This book contains contributions by scholars working on diverse aspects of speech who bring their findings to bear on the practical issue of how to treat stuttering in different language groups and in multilingual speakers. The book considers classic issues in speech production research, as well as whether regions of the brain that are affected in people who stutter relate to areas used intensively in fluent bilingual speech. It then reviews how formal...
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This volume provides a broad overview of current work in aphasia in individuals who speak more than one language. With contributions from many of the leading researchers in the field, the material included, both experimental work and theoretical overviews, should prove useful to both researchers and clinicians. The book should also appeal to a broader audience, including all who have an interest in the study of language disorders in an increasingly...
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Columbia University Press
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2013
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Dickson D. Despommier's vivid, visceral account of the biology, behavior, and history of parasites follows the interplay between these fascinating life forms and human society over thousands of years. Despommier focuses on long-term host-parasite associations, which have evolved to avoid or even subvert the human immune system. Some parasites do great damage to their hosts, while others have signed a kind of "peace treaty" in exchange for their
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In this guide, a speech pathologist teaches readers the methods implemented to improve talking in others, so if need be, they can do therapy on their own.
People with speaking difficulties are at the mercy of insurance companies who are determining how often and for how long speech therapy services should be delivered. It is also a disturbing reality that the likelihood for therapy frequency and length of care is contingent upon either the level...
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À l'avenir, les personnes porteuses de la trisomie 21 pourraient suivre une thérapie génétique et avoir accès à une pharmacothérapie cognitive plus performante.
Une perspective curative se dessine pour la trisomie 21, ou « syndrome de Down », cette condition génétique qui affecte plusieurs millions de personnes sur la planète. Les thérapies génétiques en voie d'actualisation sont de nature à modifier en profondeur le développement...
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Esta obra plantea una mirada integral a la comunicación oral, aportando conocimientos, experiencias y herramientas en los aspectos verbales y no verbales. Para tal fin, retoma saberes de la fonoaudiología, la locución, la fisiología de la comunicación, el teatro, el periodismo y las ciencias humanas, con miras en lograr una aproximación interdisciplinar al alcance de las personas del común, al tiempo que brinda aportes teórico-prácticos de...
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This book presents diverse, original research studies on typical and atypical child language acquisition in monolingual, bilingual and bi-dialectal settings, with a focus on development, assessment and research methodology. Languages investigated in the studies include underrepresented languages, such as Farsi, Greek, Icelandic, isiXhosa, Maltese, Mandarin and Slovene, without excluding representative work in major languages like English and Spanish....
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Whispers for Terra is a hopeful story of a young woman in her 30's. Mary a Speech Pathologist, experiencing a diminished sense of purpose, spends much of her time in a set of nearby woods to help her find solace from a recent divorce and work fatigue. It's in these woods she discovers earth spirits who recognize her ability to communicate and seek her help to deliver a message that will influence our earth's soil and everything that comes from it....
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A decapitated body, a missing person, a devastating betrayal...
1195. When county coroner Sir John de Wolfe is summoned to the bleak Devonshire moors to investigate the murder of a tin miner, he has little idea how difficult this new investigation will prove.
The victim is a well-loved overman of Devon's most successful mine owner, Walter Knapman. Only one motive seems probable — to sabotage Walter's business. But the tinners have their own laws...
20) The Awful Secret
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A terrible truth that could shake Christendom to its core.
1195. Gilbert de Rideford — Knight of the Temple of Solomon and old acquaintance of county coroner Sir John de Wolfe — arrives in Exeter, begging for Sir John's help.
He claims to have come into possession of an incredible secret, but to reveal it, first he needs to escape beyond the reach of the Knights Templar, or the secretive order of warrior monks — his former comrades — will...
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