The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders

Editor's description

The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders (MITECD) is a comprehensive volume that presents essential information on communication sciences and disorders. The pertinent disorders are those that affect the production and comprehension of spoken language and include especially disorders of speech production and perception, language expression, language comprehension, voice, and hearing.

Raymond D. Kent, editor of MITECD

Apart from the many articles on aphasia, which we are treating as a separate topic here, the following articles, all in part III, are potentially relevant for this course:

38. Language of the Deaf: Acquisition of English; 39. Language of the Deaf: Sign Language; 40. Linguistic Aspects of Child Language Impairment - Prosody; 44. Morphosyntax and Syntax; 47. Phonological Analysis of Language Disorders in Aphasia; 48. Phonology and Adult Aphasia; 50. Pragmatics; 53. Prosodic Deficits; 54. Reversibility/Mapping Disorders; 55. Right Hemisphere Language and Communication Functions in Adults; 56. Right Hemisphere Language Disorders; 57. Segmentation of Spoken Language by Normal Adult Listeners; 58. Semantics; 60. Specific Language Impairment in Children; 61. Syntactic Tree Pruning; 62. Trace Deletion Hypothesis