Payne presents students, academics, researchers, and professionals working in a wide variety of contexts with a reference to the support and assisting of family caregivers of patients with chronic or disabling communication disorders. The author has organized the main body of her text in nine chapters devoted to the dynamics of family care giving, diversity among caregivers, things speech-language pathologists should know, things audiologists should know, and a wide variety of other related subjects. Joan C. Payne is a faculty member of Howard University in Washington D.C. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)