This volume provides a comprehensive and in-depth handbook of qualitative research in the field of communication disorders. It introduces and illustrates the wide range of qualitative paradigms that have been used in recent years to investigate various aspects of communication disorders. The first part of the Handbook introduces in some detail the concept of qualitative research and its application to communication disorders, and describes the main qualitative research approaches. The contributions are forward-looking rather than merely giving an overview of their topic. The second part illustrates these approaches through a series of case studies of different communication disorders using qualitative methods of research. This Handbook is an essential resource for senior undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and practitioners, in communication disorders and related fields. Chapters include: (1) Case Studies and Their Frameworks: Positivist, Interpretive, and Emancipatory (Judith Felson Duchan); (2) Micro and Macro Traditions in Qualitative Research (Nina Simmons-Mackie); (3) Ethnography (Ryan L. Nelson, Kathleen Abendroth, and Karen Lynch); (4) The Ethnography of Communication Disorders Revisited (Dana Kovarsky); (5) Conversation Analysis (Ray Wilkinson); (6) Phenomenology (Jacqueline J. Hinkley); (7) Grounded Theory in Speech-Language Pathology (Deborah Hersh and Elizabeth Armstrong); (8) Pragmatics as Interaction (Michael R. Perkins); (9) Systemic Functional Linguistics and Qualitative Research in Clinical Applied Linguistics (And Louise Keegan, Zaneta Mok, and Nicole Müller); (10) A Critical Discourse Perspective on Understandings of the Nature of Aphasia (Alison Ferguson); (11) The Limits of Collaboration--Speakership in Interaction with Persons with Aphasia (Peter Auer); (12) "Life Is Hard But I'm Trying": Understanding the Lives of the Families Speech-Language Pathologists Serve (Carl Scheffner Hammer); (13) Intercultural Health Communication: Why Qualitative Methods Matter (Claire Penn); (14) A Narrative Study on the Onset of Stuttering (John A. Tetnowski, Sarah D'Agnostino, and Mitchell Trichon); (15) An Investigation of the Processes of Meaning Construction in the Writing Behaviors of a Child with Language Disorder (Holly W. Damico); (16) A Grounded Theory of Caregiving Based on the Experience of the Daughter of a Woman with Aphasia (Marie-Christine Halle and Guylaine Le Dorze); (17) It Was 20 Years Ago Today: What We Can Learn from a Year Case Study (Martin Fujiki and Bonnie Brinton); (18) Using Thematic Network Analysis: An Example Using Interview Data from Parents of Children Who Use AAC (Juliet Goldbart and Julie Marshall); (19) Interactional Phonetics: Background and Clinical Application (Ben Rutter, Martin J. Ball, and Tobias Kroll); (20) Qualitative Research Revisited (Jacqueline Guendouzi); and (21) Aiming for Explication: Reflections on the Qualitative Research Process (Jack S. Damico).