Psychological Assessment I

Language serves as the primary medium through which humans acquire and master knowledge. Furthermore, all forms of education predominantly occur through both spoken and written communication, which constitutes the symbolic system of language.Language is a system of communication, and learning it is a complex process that unfolds through various developmental stages. The preschool years represent a period of maximal growth, equipping children aged 5 to 6 with all the necessary linguistic tools to embark on academic learning. During a dialogue, we utilize approximately 180 words per minute. This ceaseless flow of language occurs effortlessly, with words selected from a mental lexicon comprising 60,000 to 120,000 terms. This remarkable ability to produce language is achieved with almost no errors. This process is accompanied by an equally astonishing capacity for language comprehension.In this book we approaching basic language topics as: The types of Communication Challenges, Pragmatic Deficits, Linguistic Deficits of Cognitive Origin Following Brain Injury, Pragmatic Deficits and Brain Damage, Aphasias, Speech and Language Disorders, etc.

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Dr. Theofilidis Antonis has studied psychology and has a postgraduate specialization in Cognitive-experimental psychology and in Clinical neuropsychology and psychotherapy. His many years of research, as well as his doctoral dissertation, concerned the limits of human spatial thought and mental representations.