Assessment in Speech-Language Pathology: A Resource Manual

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Assessment in Speech-Language Pathology: A Resource Manual Book Details

Spiral-bound: 672 pages
Publisher: Cengage Learning; 4th edition (October 6, 2008)
Language: English

ISBN-10: 1418053287
ISBN-13: 978-1418053284
Product Dimensions: 1.2 x 9.2 x 11.2 inches
This best-selling, widely lauded resource has been carefully revised to be the most important edition yet. Clinicians have come to depend on this accessible, easy to navigate resource manual for a wide range of procedures and materials for obtaining, interpreting, and reporting assessment data. In this new edition, you’ll find a new chapter on literacy, including much-needed information on reading and writing assessment. There is also updated and expanded coverage of autism, auditory processing disorders, and pediatric dysphagia. The reproducible, customizable forms have been updated as needed, both in the text and in the accompanying CD-ROM, giving you unlimited access to these clinical resources. Now in beautiful full color, all illustrations have been completely updated for greater clarity and diversity. Additionally, chapters are color coded for easy navigation. Clinicians, instructors, and students all agree that this is one of the most valuable assessment resources available to speech-language pathologists.

Assessment in Speech-Language Pathology: A Resource Manual Book Review

Filled with report-writing samples and assessment examples, this text is very well organized and practical. It summarizes and outlines the topics of each chapter and then includes very functional worksheets, checklists (i.e. Checklist of Early Literacy Skills), stimulus materials (e.g. various Reading Examples for different age groups), large/legible diagrams (the Speech Banana, Age of Acquisition of Sounds), and reference tables such as “Differentiating the Six Dysarthrias” and The “Frequency of Occurrence of Individual English Consonants.” The CD contains 61 EDITABLE forms and worksheets (case history forms, language sampling, DDK rates). Each is in Adobe Acrobat and then either Word or Excel formats. If you’re going to be a clinical SLP, SLPA or graduate student this text is a keeper, and I’d highly recommend making sure the CD is included if you buy your texts used. Note, it is spiral bound and soft cover. The advantage is the book can fold over to one-page when open. Great for smaller desktops or if you’re using the book itself in clinic. The disadvantage is you might see some wear and tear on the binding and covers faster. Also this books does not go very in-depth or contain tons of references to outside literature/research, background anatomy, etiologies…. So for teaching Assessment it may be (but not necessarily needs to be) supplemented with a more traditional text book like Diagnosis in Speech-Language Pathology (Tomblin, Morris, Spriestersbach). Still, as a resource manual and overview book, Shipley & McAfee are outstanding, and I wouldn’t want to do without it! I say thanks to them, and I hope this info helps you. Get online Assessment in Speech-Language Pathology: A Resource Manual today.