Acknowledgments
Prologue
1 Setting the Stage
Language by Design
Comparing Apples to Oranges
Components of Cognition
The Compensation of Language
2 The Language of Sight and Sound
Do You Hear What I See?
A Look at Hearing
Tinnitus
Voice Quality
Speaking of Vision
Presbyopia
Making Sense of Feelings
3 The Story of Speech
Word Finding
Word Naming
Speech Disfluency
Stuttering
Aphasia
Dyslexia
Foreign Accent Syndrome
4 Word Domination
Stressed Out
Spelling Ability
Vocabulary Size
Verbal Fluency
Grammatical Complexity
Off-Topic Verbosity
Telling Stories
5 Using Language
Pragmatic Competence
Nonliteral Language
Can Spring Chickens Teach Old Dogs New Tricks?
Elderspeak
Living with More Than One Language
The Benefits of Bilingualism?
6 The Write Stuff
Healing through Language
Reminiscing
Late Bloomers
Writer’s Block
The Destroyer of Minds
Lessons from the Nuns
Fiction Is Stronger Than Truth
Epilogue
References
Index
About the Authors
About the Illustrator