A focused survey of communication disorders affecting adults, covering hearing (outer, middle, and inner ear anatomy, hearing testing, deafness, cochlear implants, treatment), voice disorders (vocal parameters, laryngeal pathologies, assessment, treatment, vagus nerve review, clinical show-and-tell), laryngectomy (alaryngeal communication options), dysphagia (swallowing anatomy, phases, disorders, assessment, treatment), TBI (types, symptoms, cognitive-linguistic impairments, assessment, treatment), AAC (low-tech and high-tech systems, candidacy, assessment), aphasia (fluent and non-fluent types, evaluation, treatment), and motor speech disorders (apraxia and dysarthria).