Medical-Legal and Forensic Aspects of Communication Disorders, Voice Prints, & Speaker Profiling PDF eBook

Author: Dennis C. Tanner Copyright Date Ed: February 1, 2007 Pages: 347 pages PDF eBook Medical-Legal and Forensic Aspects of Communication Disorders, Voice Prints, and Speaker Profiling is your comprehensive guide to this complicated area. This four part book is perhaps one of the most complete on this topic. Part I reviews the discipline of communication sciences and disorders and discusses the research methodology used to expand its knowledge base. Part II addresses issues related to medical malpractice and other medical-legal areas for all of the major communication and swallowing disorders. This section includes legal references and case studies. Part III of this volume examines spectrographic voice identification, the use of voice prints to identify or confirm the identities of speakers and suspects. Included in this section is a discussion of the acoustics of speech, a comprehensive review of phonetics, and voice prints showing and describing their salient forensic feature