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For courses in Voice Disorders. A comprehensive look at voice disorders covering causes, symptoms, evaluation and treatment Born to Talk is a comprehensive, contemporary, reader-friendly view of speech and language development from childhood to adulthood. With its primary focus on language development, the text encompasses new and exciting contributions to human language acquisition information. It covers the complex array of topics that provide the foundation for human communication and its development from birth through young adulthood. The 7th Edition includes a new chapter and appendices on language sampling, making it particularly useful for students and practitioners in speech-language pathology.