β Scribed by Larson, David L.
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
This primer represents a unique idea in educational materials. It is intended to provide students of speech and language pathology with "ONLY as much anatomy, physiology, and acoustics as is necessary to understand how the equipment functions to produce and understand speech." This difficult task is accomplished using limited technical terminology and a functional approach to anatomy, which conditions the reader to deduct the function of structures more than simply memorize names, origins, and insertions.
The book is divided into three sections, "Speech Muscle Systems and Acoustics," "Neural Control and Auditory Systems," and ('Appendices." Each of the first two sections contains eight chapters organized sequentially to allow for a build-up of information from one chapter to the next. Each chapter includes a presentation and discussion, followed by a self-study section. The self-study section contains a glossary of terms used in the chapter, drawings to be colored or labeled, and "fill in the blanks" to questions. Although the self-study
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