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This special issue of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation brings
together seven newly published studies from a range of invited
international researchers in the fields of language and memory
disorders and their rehabilitation. The studies address a range of
current themes within these fields. Critical consideration is made
of the concept of errorless learning in light of the current
learning literature by Middleton & Schwartz. Identification of
a locus to an errorless learning advantage in non-clinical
participants is provided by Anderson and colleagues. Evaluations of
errorless learning applied to a range of clinical presentations are
provided, including semantic dementia (Jokel & colleagues),
anomia in Alzheimer's disease (Noonan & colleagues), aphasia
(Raymer & colleagues; Conroy & Scowcroft) and apraxia of
speech (Whiteside & colleagues). The breadth and depth of these
studies offers an up-to-date and comprehensive account of research
developments in errorless learning and rehabilitation of language
and memory impairments. They delineate some of the current critical
theoretical-clinical issues through which we might optimise
learning and rehabilitative efforts more fully. This book was
originally published as a special issue of the journal
Neuropsychological Rehabilitation.
"Zero Dark Thirty "meets "127 Hours"--a riveting war journal from
photographer Paul Conroy, who accompanied Marie Colvin (called by
her peers "the greatest war correspondent of her generation")
during her ill-fated final assignment in Syria.
Marie Colvinwas an internationally recognized American foreign war
correspondent who was killed in a rocket attack in 2012 while
reporting on the suffering of civilians inside Syria. She was
renowned for her iconic flair and her fearlessness: wearing the
pearls that were a gift from Yasser Arafat and her black eye-patch,
she reported from places so dangerous no other hard-core
correspondent would dare to go. Paul Conroy, who had forged a close
bond with Colvin as they put their lives on the line time and time
again to report from the world's conflict zones, was with her when
she died. "Under the Wire" is Paul's gripping, visceral, and moving
account of their friendship and the final year he spent alongside
her. When Marie and Paul were smuggled into Syria by rebel forces,
they found themselves trapped in one of the most hellish
neighborhoods on earth. Fierce barrages of heavy artillery fire
rained down on the buildings surrounding them, killing and maiming
hundreds of civilians. Marie was killed by a rocket which also blew
hole in Paul's thigh big enough to put his hand through. Bleeding
profusely, short of food and water, and in excruciating pain, Paul
then endured five days of intense bombardment before being
evacuated in a daring escape in which he rode a motorbike through a
tunnel, crawled through enemy terrain, and finally scaled a
12-foot-high wall. Astonishingly vivid, heart-stoppingly dramatic
and shot through with dark humor, in "Under the Wire "Paul Conroy
shows what it means to a be a war reporter in the 21st century. His
is a story of two brave people drawn together by a shared
compulsion to bear witness.
This special issue of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation brings
together seven newly published studies from a range of invited
international researchers in the fields of language and memory
disorders and their rehabilitation. The studies address a range of
current themes within these fields. Critical consideration is made
of the concept of errorless learning in light of the current
learning literature by Middleton & Schwartz. Identification of
a locus to an errorless learning advantage in non-clinical
participants is provided by Anderson and colleagues. Evaluations of
errorless learning applied to a range of clinical presentations are
provided, including semantic dementia (Jokel & colleagues),
anomia in Alzheimer's disease (Noonan & colleagues), aphasia
(Raymer & colleagues; Conroy & Scowcroft) and apraxia of
speech (Whiteside & colleagues). The breadth and depth of these
studies offers an up-to-date and comprehensive account of research
developments in errorless learning and rehabilitation of language
and memory impairments. They delineate some of the current critical
theoretical-clinical issues through which we might optimise
learning and rehabilitative efforts more fully. This book was
originally published as a special issue of the journal
Neuropsychological Rehabilitation.
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