Swallowing
16 Swallowing INTRODUCTION Some of the most enjoyable activities of daily living involve eating and drinking. These include meals (where eating and drinking are the purpose of the activity), special…
Speech Perception
12 Speech Perception INTRODUCTION Speech perception is a multifaceted and complicated topic that depends in important ways on information presented in Chapters 7 to 11. The study of speech perception,…
Auditory Psychophysics
14 Auditory Psychophysics AUDITORY PSYCHOPHYSICS Auditory psychophysics (also called psychoacoustics) is a branch of science that is concerned with the effects of physical stimuli (in this case, sound waves) on…
Speech Acoustic Measurement and Analysis
10 Speech Acoustic Measurement and Analysis INTRODUCTION Chapters 8 and 9 are devoted to the theoretical bases of speech acoustics, with acoustic patterns of selected speech sounds presented to illustrate…
Introduction
1 Introduction Welcome to Preclinical Speech Science: Anatomy, Physiology, Acoustics, and Perception, Third Edition. Two preliminaries are offered here. One is a discussion of the focus of the book, the…
Pediatric Glaucoma
69 Pediatric Glaucoma Richard W. Hertle, MD, FAAO, FACS, FAAP In the more than 25 years that I have been caring for infants, children, and families of patients with glaucoma,…
Aqueous Shunting Procedures
63 Aqueous Shunting Procedures Leonard K. Seibold, MD; Malik Y. Kahook, MD; and Sarwat Salim, MD, FACS Aqueous shunting procedures were introduced by Molteno and colleagues1–4 in 1968 to treat…
Filtering Surgery in the Management of Glaucoma
60 Filtering Surgery in the Management of Glaucoma Mahmoud A. Khaimi, MD and Marcos Reyes, MD Glaucoma filtration surgery is performed to provide an alternative route for aqueous humor efflux…
Unusual Pediatric Glaucomas
70 Unusual Pediatric Glaucomas Vicki M. Chen, MD and David S. Walton, MD In this section, primary childhood glaucoma associated with systemic or ocular abnormalities will be described. See Table…
Glaucoma Due to Intraocular Inflammation
43 Glaucoma Due to Intraocular Inflammation Zvia Burgansky-Eliash, MD; Guy A. Weiss, MD; and R. Rand Allingham, MD Ocular inflammation may result in elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) and glaucoma. The…
