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Aphasiology: Disorders and Clinical Practice

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I bought this book in the beginning of my graduate program and have continually referred back to the book to help me in my clinical work and during internships. I never knew I would use this book so many times as a reference/review! It is particularly helpful if you are interested in research and the medical aspect of speech language pathology. I would recommend this book for serious students that want to be informed/knowledgeable SLPs. :)

Although this book has good information in it, you simply cannot find it! The author's writing style is long winded and complex. To find specific information, you must read paragraphs of information that you don't really need. The author tried to make the information more interesting by incorporating a fictional person scenario into the book and apply theory to his specific needs. I hope to never read about Martin Exeter (or whatever his name is), again! The quizzes at the end of every chapter are ridiculous, after chapter two, and are based on everything that you don't need to know! The author does seem very knowledgeable - it's just the writing style that is confusing. I will be selling this book back as soon as possible. There are much more straight forward books on Aphasia! I know, I had to buy them to finish my graduate class in addition to this book which was required!

I was introduced to this text in my graduate coursework and found it to be utterly unremarkable. For a beginning student in this area it was a difficult book to follow. The information presented was vague and it was difficult to find specific topics. The author's coverage of treatment was fairly weak. With a strong teacher, this book may be more successful, but I didn't not learn much from this text.