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

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Medical-Legal and Forensic Aspects of Communication Disorders, Voice Prints, and Speaker Profiling is one of the most comprehensive texts on this specialized subject. Written by Dennis C. Tanner, this 347-page four-part volume is designed for lawyers, judges, law enforcement, homeland security, and intelligence professionals.

Author: Dennis C. Tanner
ISBN-10: 1-933264-13-6
ISBN-13: 978-1-933264-13-4
Copyright: February 1, 2007
Pages: 347
Binding: Hardcover
Size: 8.5 x 11 inches

Book Structure:

Part I — Communication Sciences and Disorders: Covers the discipline’s history, research methodology, scope of practice for speech-language pathologists and audiologists, and categories of communication disorders including aphasia, dysphagia, TBI, voice disorders, childhood disorders, dementia, and hearing loss.

Part II — Medical-Legal and Forensic Aspects: Addresses medical malpractice and litigation issues for all major communication and swallowing disorders — with legal references and case studies covering dysphagia, neurogenic disorders, TBI, voice disorders, childhood disorders, dementia, and hearing loss.

Part III — Voice Prints: Examines spectrographic voice identification including speech acoustics, phonetics, and the forensic features of voice prints. Covers admissibility of voice print evidence.

Part IV — Speaker Profiling: Addresses speaker profiling principles, accent and dialect, intoxicated speech patterns, speaker profiling during forensic interviews and interrogations, profiling persons with communication disorders, and instrumental voice stress analysis.

Topics Include:

Communication disorder litigation and malpractice
Spectrographic voice identification and voice prints
Acoustics of speech and phonetics
Speaker profiling: accent, dialect, and socioeconomic indicators
Speech patterns of intoxicated persons
Speaker profiling in forensic interviews and interrogations
Instrumental voice stress analysis

SciTech Book News

Tanner (health sciences, Northern Arizona U., Flagstaff) presents a resource text for lawyers, judges, and law enforcement personnel which expands, explains, and further develops the medical, legal, and forensic concepts associated with speech, voice, language, and hearing addressed in his previous publications. Coverage includes a review of the discipline of communication sciences and disorders, and the research methodology used to expand its knowledge base; issues related to medical malpractice and other legal areas for all of the major communication disorders; the acoustics of speech, an overview of phonetics, and spectrographic voice identification the use of voice prints to identify or confirm the identity of a suspect; and the art and science of speaker profiling, including discussion about speaker profiling with persons with communication disorders.