1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461055703321

Autore

Ferguson Alison

Titolo

Expert practice : a critical discourse / / Alison Ferguson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Diego, California ; ; Oxford, [England] ; ; Brisbane, [Queensland] : , : Plural Publishing Inc., , 2008

©2008

ISBN

1-59756-818-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Disciplina

616.85506

Soggetti

Speech therapy

Critical discourse analysis

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. A Critical Discourse Perspective on Speech-Language Pathology""; ""2. The Focus of Assessment: Layers of Discourse, Layers of Thinking""; ""3. The Process of Assessment: Discourse Is Dynamic""; ""4. Service Provision: Discourse and Power""; ""5. Working Collaboratively: Discourse Involves Multiple Parties""; ""6. Speech-Language Pathology Genres: Discourse Is Systematic""; ""7. Intraprofessional Discourse: Discourse Is Learned""; ""8. Curriculum Development: Discourse Is Institutionally Based""

""9. Future Directions from a Critical Discourse Perspective""""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines a series of key issues for the expert speech-language pathologist through the lens of critical discourse analysis, in order to offer the opportunity for critical reflection with a view to change. Looking first at practice, the book reconsiders a central and longstanding area for debate amongst expert practitioners, which could be summed as the "difference versus disorder" debate. It approaches this issue through considering the social context in which speech-language pathology exists and the social roles and functions which speech-language pathologists serve. Thereafter, it



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910495958503321

Titolo

Aging in the past : demography, society, and old age / / edited by David I. Kertzer, Peter Laslett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [1995]

ISBN

0-585-07892-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 408 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Studies in demography ; ; 7

Disciplina

305.26/09

Soggetti

Older people - History

Old age - Social aspects

Population - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Necessary knowledge : age and aging in the societies of the past / Peter Laslett -- Elderly persons and members of their households in England and Wales from preindustrial times to the present / Richard Wall -- The elderly in the bosom of the family : la famille souche and hardship reincorporation / E.A. Hammel -- Household systems and the lives of the old in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Hungary / Rudolf Andorka -- Migration in the later years of life in traditional Europe / Andrejs Plakans and Charles Wetherell -- Older lives on the frontier : the residential patterns of the older population of Texas, 1850-1910 / Myron P. Gutmann -- A home of one's own : aging and home ownership in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century / Michael R. Haines and Allen C. Goodman -- The impact of widowhood in nineteenth-century Italy / David I. Kertzer and Nancy Karweit -- The demography of widowhood in preindustrial New Hampshire / Daniel Scott Smith -- Transition to widowhood and family support systems in the twentieth century, northeastern United States / Tamara K. Hareven and Peter Uhlenberg -- The impact of aging on the employment of men in American working-class communities at the end of the nineteenth century / Roger I. Ransom and Richard Sutch -- Trends in old age mortality in the United States, 1900-1935 : evidence from railroad pensions / George Alter -- Toward a historical demography of aging / David I. Kertzer.