Simply Amazing

<p>The ability to communicate is amazing. No other human ability is so complicated so sophisticated so important to civilization-and yet so taken for granted. How tragic would life be without the marvelous ability to communicate? In <i>Simply Amazing: Communication Sciences and Disorders</i> Dr. Dennis C. Tanner explores the stages of the communication chain and examines the act of speech communication from the speaker's thoughts to the listener's understanding of them.</p> <p>Relying on more than forty years of experience studying teaching researching and providing clinical services in the communication sciences discipline Tanner provides a frank and informative discussion about the subject including both conventional and offbeat theories of human communication unique and sometimes bizarre disorders and intriguing patients.</p> <p>Through anecdotes examples illustrations case studies and personal asides of the amazing human ability to communicate-as well as the myriad disorders defects delays and disabilities that can lay waste to it-<i>Simply Amazing: Communication Sciences and Disorders</i> provides keen insight into the world of communication.</p>