"Counseling Persons With Communication Disorders and Their Families" is a seminal work that has become a standard text in counseling courses within the field of communication disorders. First published in 1979, this sixth edition provides updated and extensive references to the counseling literature and a new chapter summarizing the author's extraordinary 50-year career in the field. This edition is useful for professionals in the field as well as students in training. An instructor's manual is also available. [Foreword by Barry M. Prizant.]