Main description:

The new third edition of the bestselling Speech-Language Pathology Assistants: A Resource Manual is an essential, practical, and easy-to-use resource for SLPAs and SLPA educators and their students. The text defines the roles of SLPAs and their supervisors - offering additional insight into the scope of practice of an SLPA per current American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) recommendations - and includes discussions, strategies, and examples of real-world issues, such as using augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) and working with individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Also included within the chapters are important factors and modifications that can enhance the effectiveness of treatment activities. For example, using behavioral principles and incorporating play, literacy, and speech sound remediation into treatment or modifying the clinical interface to enhance group therapy dynamics for children and adults.

Initial chapters are devoted to specific aspects of an SLPA's development, such as chapters on ways SLPAs can enhance clinical service through understanding of goals, lesson plans, data collection, and note-writing. Likewise, chapters on professional practice offer insight into ethical problem-solving, presenting a professional image, developing mentoring relationships, working with culturally and linguistically diverse populations, and the use of self-reflection for self-improvement. These chapters are followed by key principles for SLPAs to incorporate in clinical services provided to specific populations and disorders.

Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgements
Contributors

Part I: Defining Roles: Speech-Language Pathology Assistants (SLPAs)

Chapter 1. Defining Roles: SLPAs
Chapter 2. Defining Roles: Supervision and Mentoring
Chapter 3. Ethical Conduct
Chapter 4. Professional Conduct
Chapter 5. Cultural and Linguistic
Carolyn Conway-Madding
Chapter 6. Health and Safety
Pei-Fang Hung

Part II: Skills Development

Chapter 7. Deciphering Lesson Plans and Goals
Jennifer A. Ostergren and Stephanie L. Peterson
Chapter 8. Data Collection
Chapter 9. Note Writing
Chapter 10. Implementing Treatment
Chapter 11. Using Behavioral Principles
Jennifer A. Ostergren and Stephanie P. Davis
Chapter 12. Group Therapy
Jennifer A. Ostergren and Sarah Guzzino-Herrick

Part III: Treatment for Specific Population and Disorders

Chapter 13. Speech Sound Remediation for Children
Chapter 14. Early Intervention
Margaret Vento-Wilson
Chapter 15. Language Intervention for Children
Margaret Vento-Wilson
Chapter 16. Incorporating Play and Literacy in Treatment
Sara M. Aguilar
Chapter 17. Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Jodi Robledo
Chapter 18. Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Margaret Vento-Wilson
Chapter 19. Adults with Acquired Neurologic Disorders
Jennifer A. Ostergren and Carley B. Crandall