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Vision, Perception, and

Cognition (4th ed.), by Barbara
Zoltan
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Leo Uzych JD MPH
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Wallingford, PA, USA
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 66 ACTIVITIES, ADAPTATION & AGING

The 36-Hour Day is required reading for persons caring for individuals
with any form of dementia or memory loss. The text offers comfort and
empowers people to seek ways to support the quality of life for persons
with memory loss while also supporting themselves. The text and its
chapters are set up to be read from time to time throughout the caregiving
experience—be that several days or many years. While The 36-Hour Day
is an excellent guide with general information for family caregivers of
persons with dementia, it may also be useful introductory material for
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professional caregivers. The text is person focused and describes the

complexity and depth of the care required not only for persons with
Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia but also for caregivers.

M. Jean Keller, EdD, Dean

College of Education
University of North Texas
Denton, TX

VISION, PERCEPTION, AND COGNITION (4th ed.), by Barbara

Zoltan. Thorofare, NJ: SLACK Incorporated, 2007, 338 pages, hard-
cover, $44.95.

Vision, Perception, and Cognition (4th ed.), was written by neurologic

rehabilitative specialist Barbara Zoltan for the cardinal purpose of reflecting
the current state of the art with respect to the evaluation and treatment of
visual, perceptual, and cognitive processing deficits affecting adults with
acquired brain injury (ABI). The copious information presented may
greatly assist clinicians with respect to the honing of clinical skills rele-
vant to the evaluation and treatment of adults with ABI. The rich wealth
of knowledge embodying the book may further act as a springboard for
further plunges by curious investigators into the intellectually challenging
waters of ABI. The stylistic and substantive abstruseness of the book,
however, is not molded well to fit lay readers.
Thirteen chapters are the key structural pillars upholding the book’s
foundation. Multifarious, well structured tables and figures further aug-
ment the strength of the text. The text’s intellectual potency is enhanced
additionally by multitudinous academic references and resources. Teth-
ered to the textual body are several assistive appendices. The substantive
contents of the respective chapters are replete with information pertinent
 Book Reviews 67

particularly to the therapeutic evaluation of ABI, including important

elaborations of variant tests. Likewise, ABI-related treatment garners the
close and perspicacious attention of Zoltan in a highly instructive manner
that may particularly enthrall clinicians.
An expansive gamut of topics related to ABI fall within the author’s
wide breadth of knowledge. Revealing very considerable erudition, and in
the context overall of evaluation and treatment tied to ABI, Zoltan shines
an intellectually illumining flashlight on sundry subjects that include:
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apraxia, body scheme disorders, visual discrimination skills, visual pro-

cessing skills, agnosia, memory, orientation and attention, “executive
function,” and acalculia.
Critics may caution that Zoltan’s very informative delineation of the
mechanics of a multitude of tests, relating to the evaluation of ABI must
properly be accompanied by hard-to-acquire skills with respect to the
adept administering of such tests and the clinically correct interpretation
of test results. Treating ABI in optimal fashion is, as well, a hard-earned
skill. And, in this vein, concern may be expressed that the relatively facile
treatment-related instructions presented in the text may provide suboptimal
guidance with respect to treatment-related complexities and complica-
tions that may arise in real life. Prospective readers should be mindful as
well that the evaluation and treatment of ABI is a relatively fallow medi-
cal scientific field. And, although the author lucidly shows a revealing
snapshot of selected, available knowledge in this field, plainly far more
neuron-scientific investigative work remains to be done. In another vein,
the very considerable intellectual strength of the book arguably may have
been even greater if the book had been structured as a collection of papers
contributed by a bevy of experts drawn from various professional fields
related to ABI.
With the foregoing admonitions, this superb book should be of
immensely edifying value to all persons concerned professionally with
ABI including occupational therapists, physical therapists, neurologists,
neuroscientists, neuropsychologists, psychiatrists, and eye specialists.

Leo Uzych, JD, MPH

Wallingford, PA