Cognitive-Communication Disorders of Dementia Katherine Bayles and Cheryl Tomoeda A useful handbook to provide professionals the knowledge needed to diagnose and treat dementia-associated communication disorders. The authors are leaders in this field who share their expertise to provide an in-depth discussion of cognition and communication and Alzheimer’s disease, a disorder of the fastest-growing clinical populations of speech therapy. It provides assessment, direct and indirect interventions, and care planning for cognitive-communicative disorders of dementia. It also discusses dementia with specific disorders such as Down Syndrome, Parkinson’s, Lewy Body Disease, Huntington’s, and frontotemporal dementia. The appendix deals with providing culturally sensitive care. 256 pages, softcover.
