Research in Logopedics: Speech and Language Therapy in Finland

Anu Klippi, Kaisa Launonen

Multilingual Matters, 2008 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 269 pages

Speech and language (logopedic) therapists in Finland face unique challenges. For example, the Finnish language differs considerably from those used in the majority of published reports in the field of language and communication disorders. To bridge the gap, this collection of papers, all of which are in English, covers a wide range of topics, including the challenges of logopedics and speech-language therapy in Finland, aspects of the structure of the Finnish language, current testing and assessment methods, normal and disordered phonological acquisition in Finnish, logopedic research on communication difficulties in childhood, alternate communication forms as genuinely shared language, text production of Finnish speakers with aphasia, semantic impairment of Finnish-speaking people with Alzheimer's Disease, verbal and non-verbal behavior in aphasic word search in conversation, acquisition of Finnish sign language, children with cochlear implants acquiring the Finnish language, speech intelligibility in hearing impairment, and voice disorders among teaching students. Distributed in the US by UTP Distribution.

Contents

• 1369_Ch02pdf: 9
• 1369_Ch03pdf: 19
• 1369_Ch04pdf: 33
• 1369_Ch05pdf: 63
• 1369_Ch06pdf: 75
• 1369_Ch07pdf: 97
• 1369_Ch08pdf: 125
• 1369_Ch09pdf: 146
• 1369_Ch10pdf: 173
• 1369_Ch11pdf: 206
• 1369_Ch12pdf: 221
• 1369_Ch13pdf: 247

About the author

Anu Klippi, Ph.D., speech and language therapist is a professor of logopedics and head of the Department of Speech Sciences at the University of Helsinki. She is the author of Conversation as an Achievement in Aphasics (1996). She has published a number of scholarly articles on the different fields of logopedics, on the methodological questions of the research of logopedics, and on the training of speech and language therapists. Her principal interests are communication and interaction with people with communication disorders, and especially with people with aphasia and with dementia. In particular, the question concerning the relationship between verbal and nonverbal behaviour, as well as the question of the capacity of nonverbal behaviour to convey meanings in conversation, has been elucidated in her study. Kaisa Launonen, Ph.D., is a speech and language therapist, and a professor of logopedics at the Department of Speech Sciences in the University of Helsinki. Her doctoral thesis (1998, in Finnish) dealt with development, application and long-term effects of an Early Signing Programme in the early intervention of children with Down syndrome. She is the leading researcher in Finland in the field of augmentative and alternative communication where her principal interests are in developmental issues and in people with the most severe communication challenges. She has active research collaboration also in the international field of AAC where she has contributed to several edited publications. Her other interests cover early interaction and communication development, as well as ethical issues in communication intervention, professional ethics of speech and language therapists, and research ethics.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Research in Logopedics: Speech and Language Therapy in Finland; Communication disorders across languages
• Editors: Anu Klippi, Kaisa Launonen
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters, 2008
• ISBN: 1847690580, 9781847690586
• Length: 269 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Speech