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response levels, and feedback. For example, specific language functions should be exercised so that patients are able to respond accurately 80% of the time. Suggestions are provided for selecting stimuli that will challenge particular semantic and syntactic dimensions. The last chapter begins with a discussion of the psychosocial changes that inevitably occur in the lives of patients and their families. Changes in emotional behavior and personality are described along with the concomitant shift of roles between patient and spouse. There is a discussion of the clinician's role in assisting the patient with normal psychological problems as they arise during treatment. Davis describes techniques to promote language change and facilitate psychosocial adjustment among patients and family. Davis's insights regarding the relationship between clinician and patient, however, will be useful to the basic researcher as well.