The Clinical Management subsection describes appropriate interventions, including behavioral, pharmacological, surgical, and prosthetic. Because the approach to communication disorders can be quite different for children and adults, many topics include separate entries reflecting this. Although some disorders that are first diagnosed in childhood may persist in some form throughout adulthood, many disorders can have an onset in either childhood or adulthood, and the timing of onset can have many implications for both assessment and intervention. Topics covered in MITECD include cochlear implants for children and adults, pitch perception, tinnitus, alaryngeal voice and speech rehabilitation, neural mechanisms of vocalization, holistic voice therapy techniques, computer-based approaches to children’s speech and language disorders, neurogenic mutism, regional dialect, agrammatism, global aphasia, and psychosocial problems associated with communicative disorders.

With this book, readers will learn the essential methods that are used to achieve EBP, such as how to find and evaluate research articles, design questionnaires and data collection forms, analyze quantitative data, and much more.

Key features:

• Includes guidelines on how to evaluate the strengths and failures of research articles
• Presents data collection methods for physiological and psychosocial data
• Explains how to evaluate the ethical aspects of a study
• Provides guidelines on how to present and publish research findings
• Contains appendices with examples of evidence-based practice activities and protocols as well as a resource list of relevant websitesBy knowing how to appraise the available evidence and its implications for clinical care, readers will learn to seamlessly translate evidence into practice.”

This workbook reflects a number of important regulatory changes that have occurred in the past 13 years, as well as the new landscape of healthcare reform.

• In Part I, Physique, Fitness and Performance, you’ll examine the morphological components of physique; physique, exercise, nutrition, and heart disease; body types; body build and physical performance, and more.
  
• Part II, Physical and Physiological Conditioning, addresses such topics as muscular strength and muscular endurance; aerobic and anaerobic conditioning, motor learning and motor control; and fatigue and physical performance.
  
• Nutrition and Heart Disease, Part III, addresses everything from carbohydrates, fats, and proteins to cholesterol reduction, causes of obesity, and obesity and heart disease.
  
• Part IV offers informative appendixes provide a wealth of information on resistance exercises, body size and body proportions, nutrition guidelines, height/weight measurement assessment, and more.For fitness professionals, physical education majors, fitness buffs, or anyone with an interest in the subject, Physique, Fitness and Performance offers a sweeping review of the subject matter that will impact the field well into the future.

This fourth edition of a comprehensive text/reference that has been valued by students, educators and practising nurses for many years, Palliative Care Nursing continues to reflect the fundamental basic and advanced hospice and palliative care nursing competencies that are required for effective and empathetic care of patients and families.

It presents information on how to secure employment, including tips on the application process and interviewing. There is a section providing a general overview of the U.S. Health Care delivery system. This is a guide to workplace rights and obligations in the U.S.

Interested in Nanotechnology but Can’t Bear to Wade through Detailed Technical Reports?

While reports on nanotechnology by research and marketing firms as well as governmental agencies are comprehensive and insightful, they can often be tedious to read, expensive to procure, and generally unknown to nonexperts interested in this technology.

This volume examines the state-of-the-art in our understanding of the aging brain through the application of brain imaging techniques of neuroscience to the geriatric population. By exploring the neurobiological aspects of geriatric mental health, scientists can begin to understand why abnormal aging happens and what can be done to treat it.