Treatment Resource Manual for Speech-Language Pathology | Seventh Edition Edition

Details about Treatment Resource Manual for Speech-Language Pathology:

With major content updates and many more supporting online materials, the seventh edition of the Treatment Resource Manual for Speech-Language Pathology is an accessible and reliable source of basic treatment information and techniques for a wide range of speech and language disorders. This detailed, evidence-based manual includes complete coverage of common disorder characteristics, treatment approaches, reporting techniques, and patient profiles for child and adult clients.

Divided into two sections, the first focuses on preparing for effective interventions, and includes the basic principles of speech-language therapies including various reporting systems and techniques. The second part, the bulk of the book, is devoted to treatments for specific communication disorders, including speech sound disorders, pediatric language disorders, autism spectrum disorder, adult aphasia and traumatic brain injury (TBI), motor speech disorders, dysphagia, stuttering, voice disorders, and alaryngeal speech. The last three chapters focus on effective counseling skills, cultural competence and considerations, and contemporary professional issues, including critical thinking, telepractice, simulation technologies, and coding and reimbursement.

Treatment Resource Manual for Speech-Language Pathology, Seventh Edition is an ideal resource for academic courses on intervention and clinical methods in graduate speech-language programs and as a more practical supplementary text to the more traditional theoretical books used for undergraduate clinical methods courses.  It is also helpful as a study guide for certification and licensing exams, and a handy manual for practicing clinicians in need of a single resource for specific therapy techniques and materials for a wide variety of communication disorders. 

• Updates to each disorder-focused chapter on treatment efficacy and evidence-based practice
• New focus on a social model of disability (diversity-affirming approach to intervention)
• Substantial update on approaches for autism
• Expanded discussion of the use of telepractice to conduct intervention
• Expanded information on cultural/linguistic diversity and cultural responsiveness/competence within the context of therapeutic intervention
• Updated information on incidence/prevalence of aphasia and expanded discussion of treatment efficacy in TBI, spasmodic dysphonia, and goals for treatment of motor speech disorders
• QR codes in the margins lead to websites of the key resources discussed  
• Additional Helpful Hints in each disorder chapter 
• Updates to the Lists of Additional Resources and Recommended Readings 
• Updated citations and references throughout 
• Significant expansion of supplementary online materials to facilitate pedagogy and enhance learning

• Chapters focused on treatment of disorders include a concise description of the disorder, case examples, specific suggestions for the selection of therapy targets, and sample therapy activities
• QR codes linking to key resources 
• Bolded key terms with an end-of-book glossary
• A multitude of case examples, reference tables, charts, figures, and reproducible forms
• Helpful Hints and Lists of Additional Resources in each chapter
• Updated book appendices that include the new ASHA Code of Ethics and Cultural Competency checklists in addition to disorder-specific appendices in many chapters