Traumatic brain injury ‎(‎TBI‎)‎ can seriously disrupt the social and communication skills that are basic requirements for everyday life‎.‎ It is the loss of these interpersonal skills that can be the most devastating for people with TBI and their families‎.‎ Although there are many books that focus upon TBI‎,‎ none focus on communication and communication skills specifically‎.‎ This book fills this important gap in the literature and provides information ranging from a broad overview of the nature of pathology following TBI and its effects on cognition and behaviour‎,‎ through to the latest evidence about ways to assess and treat social and communication disorders‎.‎ Much has changed in the field of communication disorders and TBI since the first edition of this book was published in 1999‎.‎ There have been advances in neuroimaging‎,‎ providing more accurate understanding of how the brain is damaged in TBI and also insights into its repair‎.‎ There has been a burgeoning interest in social cognition‎,‎ and advances in how communication is conceptualized‎,‎ with a particular focus on the role of how context facilitates or impedes communicative ability‎.‎Most importantly‎,‎ much has changed in the arena of rehabilitation‎.‎ There is now a growing evidence base of treatments aimed at improving communication problems following TBI‎,‎ new resources for accessing this information and renewed interest in different kinds of methods for demonstrating treatment effects‎.‎ Bringing together a range of expert international researchers interested in understanding the nature and treatment of TBI this book covers topics from understanding how the brain damage occurs‎,‎ how it affects social and communication skills and how these problems might be treated‎.‎ As such it will be of great interest to clinicians‎,‎ postgraduate and undergraduate students and researchers in neuropsychology‎,‎ speech and language pathology‎.‎