Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Conditions de Kummer, Ann

Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Conditions

Kummer, Ann

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2018

Best-Selling by author Ann Kummer

Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Conditions is the marketing leading title for the graduate course on craniofacial conditions and cleft palate or as a sourcebook for health care professionals who provide service in this area. It is designed to be a how-to guide as well as a source of didactic and theoretical information. Author, Ann Kummer, is a highly recognized and respected active clinician with a specialty in the field.

The text is divided into five important parts including:

Part 1 provides basic anatomy and physiology of both normal structures and clefts, and craniofacial anomalies. The various causes of these anomalies are also reviewed.

Part 2 includes chapters on various problems associated with clefts and craniofacial conditions.

Part 3 covers the various diagnostic methods for assessing speech, resonance, and velopharyngeal function

Part 4 discusses the treatment of speech and resonance disorders

Part 5 includes the multidisciplinary approach to caring for a patient affected by clefts or craniofacial conditions

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Ann W. Kummer, PhD, CCC-SLP, FASHA Ann W. Kummer, Ph.D., CCC-SLP retired as Senior Director of the Division of Speech-Language Pathology at Cincinnati Children's in September 2017. Under her direction, the speech-language pathology program at Cincinnati Children's became the largest pediatric program in the nation and one of the most respected. Dr. Kummer remains clinically and academically active as Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and has several other adjunct positions. Dr. Kummer has done hundreds of national and international lectures and seminars in the areas of cleft palate and craniofacial anomalies, resonance disorders, velopharyngeal dysfunction, and business practices in speech-language pathology. She has written numerous professional articles and 23 book chapters in speech pathology and medical texts. She is one of the authors of the text entitled Business Practices: A Guide for Speech-Language Pathologists (ASHA, 2004) and the author of the book entitled Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Conditions: A Comprehensive Guide to Clinical Management, 4th Edition (Jones & Bartlett Learning). She has taught a graduate course in cleft palate and craniofacial conditions at five universities. Her recorded lectures are included in the online site for her textbook. Dr. Kummer is the co-developer of the Simplified Nasometric Assessment Procedures (SNAP) test (1996) and author of the SNAP-R (2005) which is incorporated in the Nasometer software (PENTAX Medical). She holds a patent on the nasoscope, which is marketed as the Oral & Nasal Listener (Super Duper, Inc.). She was one of the main developers of workflow software that won the 1995 International Beacon Award through IBM/Lotus. (Derivative software is marketed by Chart Links.) Dr. Kummer has received numerous honors and awards, including: Honors of the Southwestern Ohio Speech-Language-Hearing Association (1995); Honors of the Ohio Speech-Language-Hearing Association (OSLHA) (1997); Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Cincinnati (1999); Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) (2002); named one of the top 25 most influential therapists in the United States by Therapy Times (2006); Honors for Distinguished Service, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Cincinnati (2007); named one of the 10 Most Inspiring Women in Cincinnati (2007); Inducted into the National Academy of Inventors, Cincinnati Chapter (2010); Distinguished Alumnus Award, College of Allied Health, University of Cincinnati (2012), Elwood Chaney Outstanding Clinician Award from the Ohio Speech-Language-Hearing Association (OSHLA) (2012); Annie Glenn National Leadership Award, Ohio School Speech Pathology Educational Audiology Coalition (OSSPEAC) (2014); the Media Outreach Champion award from ASHA (2014). In 2017, she received Honors of the Association from ASHA, the highest award given by the association.