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Offers an introduction to phonetics in a presentation that equips the communication disorders student to deal with the wide range of speech types that will be encountered in a clinic. This work examines speech acoustics, with illustrations of sample spectrograms in traditional articulatory drawings. It is accompanied by a CD of sound examples.

Explores topics including: who needs group counseling and psychotherapy; therapeutic factors in children's groups; pre-group planning and forming a group; and how to enhance emotional experiencing and group support. This text is useful for counseling psychology students, researchers, and practitioners working with young people.

Topics in this volume include: issues in affective assessment; selecting and designing affective instruments; and interpreting affective data.

This broad consideration of the lifespan component of communication study emphasizes how communicative processes develop, are maintained, and change throughout the life span. Topics covered include language skills, interpersonal conflict management, socialization, care-giving, and relationship development.

Poverty is an educational issue because it affects children's physical, emotional, and cognitive development. Especially in current times, taken-for-granted ideas about poverty and poor children must be scrutinized and reconsidered. That is the goal of this book.

Examines the technical, regulatory, and economic forces that have shaped the development of American telecommunications services. This volume is both an introduction to the basic technical, economic, and regulatory principles underlying telecommunications, and a detailed account of major events that have marked development of the sector in the US.

This work provides an examination of the relationship between written communication in academic and workplace contexts. It is aimed at writing researchers, teachers, programme designers, and others concerned with writing in academic and business arenas.

Provides information on recent research on global travel behaviour as an integral component of travel and tourism marketing research. Empirical research is included. Areas covered include marketing management in small island nations and travel motivation variations in overseas German visitors.

A comprehensive look at the pervasive and weighty problem of cheating on tests. It should appeal to all serious stakeholders in educational systems, from parents and school board members to professionals in schools and the testing industry.

Exploring the question of whether China's peasantry was a revolutionary force, this volume pays particular attention to the first half of the 20th century, when peasant-based conflict was central to nationwide revolutionary processes. It traces key themes of social conflict and peasant resistance.

Exploring the common ground and important differences between bisexuality and transgenderism, this volume combines work by scholars and activists, and includes interviews with four male-to-female transsexuals.

This book offers specific strategies for classroom teachers to use in designing and implementing classroom groups and cooperative learning for a wide range of classes.

This work questions the rhetoric/technical knowledge split to examine what is at stake in rhetoric's traditional classification as a "practical" art. It explores the distinction between practical and design arts, and enumerates the skills criteria cited in literature to count as an art of design.

This book challenges orthodoxy and static ideas about small group dynamics. A primary goal is to offer an alternative model of group development.

In this text, Robert J. Starratt enters the national conversation among educational administration scholars and practitioners about what constitutes the core of their knowledge and practice.

Malvina Fischer conveys the incremental effect of specific decrees aimed to dehumanise the Jews who were caught in Hitler's net, and how their everyday lives were transformed. She wrote these letters to her daughter and they have now been edited by her granddaughter Edith Kurzweil.

This book is concerned with the provision of health information remotely via the latest communications technologies. It examines what has been learned from research-based evaluations of digital health projects.

Exploring the driving forces behind the current government-sponsored resurrection of phonics, and the arguments used to justify it, this title examines the roles played by three key actors - corporate America, politicians, and state-supported reading researchers - in the formulation of what Strauss terms the neophonics political program.

This second, updated and expanded edition is written for undergraduate, graduate, and in-service teachers who want to integrate literacy processes into their content area instruction.

Seeking to assist professionals and care providers looking to develop culturally-based techniques for the care of dementia-afflicted elders, this book first presents the need for culturally-sensitive care, and then describes how this method of care may be utilized and developed.

Nursing homes are often not equipped to deal with palliative needs of late-stage dementia care. This book addresses those needs. Information is included on the foundations and options for programme development; treatment approaches for common needs;

This text explores family of origin treatment, which looks at patterns and rules in a family which affect interactions within that family. These patterns are then unconsciously utilized throughout a person's life in work and family settings.

Provides a guide to the task of conceptualizing, understanding and intervening with persons who abuse substances. The book offers practical suggestions, assessment procedures and change strategies directed at the thoughts, feelings and behaviours believed to support a drug-dependent lifestyle.

This text discusses the pros and cons of physical activity for older persons, and explores the theoretical reasons for which older people do not pursue physical activity and how to overcome this reluctance. There is a model included, as well as implications for future social policy.