For speech-language pathologists and students, Burda (communication sciences and disorders, U. of Northern Iowa) brings together nine chapters that explain communication and swallowing changes in healthy aging adults that are related to cognition, auditory and reading comprehension, verbal expression, writing, and voice and motor speech abilities. A group of speech-language pathologists from the US address the difference between normal and pathological changes and strategies to treat patients. The final chapter discusses the topic in terms of the World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)