Brain, Vol. 127, No. 7, 1679-1681,
July 2004
© 2004 Guarantors of Brain
doi: 10.1093/brain/awh184
Book Review |
APHASIA AND ITS THERAPY
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK
APHASIA AND ITS THERAPY
By Anna Basso
2003. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Price £35. Pp. 317. ISBN 0-19-513587-3.
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Professor Anna Basso is Associate Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Milan. She ran the aphasia rehabilitation unit in Milan for 40 years. Since 1962 she has worked at the university neurological clinic, where she helped to establish and then directed the first Italian aphasia rehabilitation unit. She has organized and directed courses for language therapists at the University of Milan, and has given courses in neuropsychology and aphasia rehabilitation in the USA, Canada, Argentina, Brazil and many European countries. In this book she draws together her considerable experience to provide comprehensive coverage of the evolution and state of the art of aphasia research and therapy for researchers, clinicians, and their students and trainees in speech–language pathology and therapy, aphasiology and neuropsychology.
The book is dedicated to Professor Arthur Benton, from whom Professor Basso received her only formal training in neuropsychology and who influenced the idea of writing