Stories
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Providing care across languages
When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.
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A wee spot of bother
Euphemisms can both appear to diminish experiences while at the same time making them easier to talk about. Carrie Hynds, who experienced the latter part of Northern Ireland’s “Troubles”, explores the relationship between language and trauma.
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The food diary and the power of unhealth
Food diaries might appear to present a strictly factual record of dietary choices, but what they don’t include is the more revealing story, as Virginia Hartley suggests.
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Finding the words to talk about emptiness
Shored up by a diagnosis and medication, Cassie Doney tried to find out more about the profound feeling of emptiness they were experiencing. But research is thin on the ground.
Catalogue
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Preschool children with inadequate communication : developmental language disorder, autism, low IQ / edited by Isabelle Rapin on behalf of the Austim and Language Disorders Nosology Project ; and including first publication of 'Wing autistic disorders interview checklist (WADIC)' and 'Wing schedule of handicaps, behaviour and skills (HBS)' by Lorna Wing.
Date: 1996- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: HAS-HAY
Date: 1766-1884Reference: MS.8913- Books
Human population genetics : a centennial tribute fo J.B.S. Haldane / edited by Partha P. Majumder.
Date: [1993], ©1993- Videos
Disorders of language and reading and writing.
Date: 1974- Books
Terminology of communication disorders : speech, language, hearing / Lucille Nicolosi, Elizabeth Harryman, Janet Kresheck.
Nicolosi, Lucille.Date: [1978], ©1978