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Anatomy and Physiology for Speech, Language, and Hearing

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This book offers a broad coverage of the underlying structures and processes of speech. Beyond a primitive stage, man is unique in his ability to convey information by using his voice. And he has developed this ability from systems designed for more vital goals (eg., respiration and nutrition). In this respect, the work by Seikel, King and Drumright proves a great resource for studying the entire apparatus involved in voice production and perception, specifically the systems of respiration (energy source), phonation (voicing), articulation and resonation filtering), mastication and deglution, hearing, and neural. Furthermore, it includes several appendices for quick access to anatomical terms, morphology of terms, muscles, sensors and nerves, and a review of pathologies affecting production of voice. What I liked the most about the book is that you are systematically guided through all the germane systems, and when pertinent, the book provides references for deeper understanding of the material. Besides, after you have read sufficient content, the book shows summaries for reinforcement of the learnt concepts. Also, there are clinical notes distributed throughout the text, with germane discussions (related processes, pathologies, etc.). And every chapter has a set of questions for assessment of your understanding (do not worry, answers are included!).

If you are concretelly focused on speech production, this book is a gold mine. They review the Source-Filter theory of speech production, and you can somewhat independently approach the excitation source and the filter ("shaping" of the source signal in the supraglottal airways). There is also an interesting discussion of the Central Control Theory and the Action Theory Model for coordinated articulation. Naturally, you will be presented a detailed list of muscles, and the qualitative effects of their contraction. Additionally, the CD-ROM includes the Anatesse software, useful for additional review of the subjects, and for self evaluation too! And finally, this is not your typical, dry textbook. On the contrary, it's a completely friendly, fun and professional intellectual product. Fully recommended.

I am just barely begining to use this textbook in my speech pathology courses, but I do have one major complaint. The software, Anatesse, and studywares are not mac compatible. I was able to get the studywares cd to work on my mac by testing it out on a trial version of crossover mac, but the anatesse only shows the uninstall file..... Very annoying. No where on any of the info does it say what operating system is required. In addition on of my classmates is having issues running it on vista as well.... Fortunatly Seikel the main author is the head of the department I am in so I will be able to complain to someone.....

This text is being used in my anatomy and physiology course, which I am taking in preparation for a graduate program in speech language pathology. This book might possibly be acceptable for someone who is already familiar with anatomy and physiology, but for someone (such as myself) who has never taken this course before, the text is extremely confusing. Specifically, the text refers to various anatomical structures which are supposedly represented with an accompanying graphic illustration. Sometimes they are and sometimes they are not! Many times the text does not provide any accompanying illustrations. Different terms are introduced which are not defined, nor is there a definition in the back of the book. I have been reduced to looking in my dictionary or trying to "google" terms. I feel that I have many holes in my understanding of this material and that I have wasted a great deal of time with this text, when I could have profited from a much better written testbook.

This book helped me to get a great grade in my class. The diagrams and illustrations are very helpful. The CD-Rom is extremely helpful since it has color illustrations and quizzes in each section. I really advise all users to utilize the CD-Rom!

Not only do they not work with Macs, they also require you to INSTALL the software on a computer before you can use it. In other words, you cannot take the CDs with you to the library or computer lab to use, either. My professor contacted the publisher and there is no recourse - NO online version, the Mac version of the software (for release with the next edition) is not ready yet. This made me extremely unhappy with this text, since right on the syllabus the professor told us to make sure we keep up with the software supplement as past students have said it is the most useful part of the text.

As a speech pathology student who was required to take an anatomy class with this being the required text - this book was horrible. In each chapter there is sooo much missing information and holes and gaps in the information that it made learning anatomy that much harder. The only good thing about this book is that it comes with a helpful anatomy cd for the cdrom... i preferred the Netter anatomy book instead.

I got an A+ in my Anatomy & Physiology of speech and hearing class because of this book. Excellent resource for the future speech pathologist.

This book is well written and explains the material with great detail so that anyone can understand it clearly. I am very satisfied with the purchase.

This book is very easy to read and learn from. The CD is great for practice exams. I love it!

The best thing is that this book has a CD-rom that gives you simplified with tests every one the the chapters. You can practice your knowledge gained at the end of every chapter using written tests.

I would have liked if the images had color. They're all white and black or drawings (which are really good too).