This is the first book in this field to examine computers and their impact on the study and practice of speech-language pathology and audiology. It introduces students to the multitude of ways that speech-language pathologists and audiologists have used computers to provide clinical services more efficiently and more cost-effectively. With this information, students will be better able to adequately promote the welfare of the persons they serve professionally in the managed health care, cost-containment environment in which they are likely to be required to practice in the near future.