Management of Adult Neurogenic Dysphagia.

By Maggie Lee Huckabee and Cathy A. Pelletier . 998. Pp. 336. San Diego: Singular Publishing Group. Price £40.00. ISBN 1-56593-731-7. Until recently dysphagia due to neurological disease was rarely studied in detail. For clinical neurologists the limited repertoire of bulbar symptoms and signs meant that the cause of the swallowing problem was more easily inferred from symptoms and signs in the limbs and upper cranial nerves, whilst ENT surgeons have understandably focused their attention on structural and malignant disease. Speech and language therapists, working alone or as a member of a multidisciplinary team, have highlighted the suffering of patients with neurogenic dysphagia and have taken forward research and clinical practice in assessment and treatment. The aim of the book, which is written by two speech and language …