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Free Download Estella P.M. Ma, "Handbook of Voice Assessments"
English | ISBN: 1597563641 | 2011 | 400 pages | EPUB | 51 MB
This book covers a comprehensive description of voice assessment. It embraces current best practice and the latest research reports on the assessment of voice by leading international clinicians and scholars in the professions. It intends to be a collective experience of the voice clinicians and researchers. This book maximizes students' and clinicians' competence, knowledge and effectiveness and will become a necessary and invaluable sourcebook for every undergraduate, graduate and every clinician in his/her early career. The book is the first of its kind in voice assessment to have a dual feature of being a textbook and sourcebook. Each chapter focuses on one area of voice assessment. At the beginning of each chapter, a succinct list of purposes of the assessment is listed, followed by the description of procedure in an easy-to-understand and systematic format. Finally, guidelines on how to analyze the voice samples and interpretation of results are included. Special features of the book include: Theoretical background restricted to a simple paragraph; detailed instructions for each voice assessments; readers can follow directly the detailed instructions and can immediately implement the assessment with patients; all chapters are consistent in format and terminology & each chapter begins with the purpose of the assessment, followed by the description of procedures.