Assessment of Communication Disorders in Children: Resources and Protocols.

Third Edition

M.N. Hegde, Frances Pomaville

Details: 571 pages, B&W, Softcover, 8.5" x 11"

ISBN13: 978-1-59756-784-8

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Assessment of Communication Disorders in Children: Resources and Protocols, Third Edition offers a unique combination of scholarly information, invaluable resources, and time-saving protocols on assessment of communication disorders in children.

Most resource books offer limited research and scholarly information, thus making them unsuitable as textbooks for academic courses on assessment and diagnosis. Similarly, most traditional textbooks do not include practical, easy-to-use, and time-saving resources and protocols that the practicing clinicians can readily use during assessment sessions. By combining the strengths of traditional textbooks with newer assessment resources and protocols, this one-of-a-kind book offers a single, comprehensive source that is suitable as a textbook and useful as a practical clinical resource.

This bestselling and trusted text

Covers the full range of communication disorders in children, including nonverbal or minimally verbal children
Includes an extensive discussion of issues in using standardized tests along with detailed information on psychometric principles and offers a detailed discussion of alternative assessment approaches that minimize the problems inherent to standardized tests
Describes a new, comprehensive, and integrated assessment approach that derives its strengths from the traditional as well as several alternative approaches
Addresses the multicultural issues in assessing communication disorders in children and integrates multicultural assessment procedures into the assessment protocols offered for all communication disorders
Contains two chapters for each disorder: one on resources that offers scholarly and research background on the disorder and one on resources that describe practical procedures and protocols that save preparation time and effort for the clinician

New to the Third Edition

A PluralPlus companion website allows clinicians to view, modify, and print the assessment protocols for their personal use
All Resources chapters reflect current research and assessment principles and procedures
Updated listings and descriptions of published, standardized tests that are commonly used in the assessment of communication disorders in children are provided
Revisions of several assessment procedures and protocols, based on recent research, are included
A single streamlined chapter combines research and practical information on assessing ethnoculturally diverse children with alternative and integrated assessment approaches
Each chapter contains a summary and sample study questions

RELATED BOOK ON ADULTS
This book is a companion volume to Assessment of Communication Disorders in Adults, Second Edition . These two volumes offer a comprehensive set of resources and protocols to assess the entire range of communication disorders in all age groups.

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"Named to Doody's Core Titles in the Health Sciences - Speech, Language & Hearing 2020 list."
—Doody's (May 2020)

Preface
Creating Child-Specific Assessment Packages with Protocols on the Companion Website

Part I. Foundations of Assessment

Chapter 1. Assessment of Communication Disorders in Children
Chapter 2. Common Assessment Protocols
Chapter 3. Standardized Assessment
Chapter 4. Alternative and Integrated Assessment

Part II. Assessment of Speech Sound Production

Chapter 5. Assessment of Speech Sound Production: Resources
Chapter 6. Assessment of Speech Sound Production: Protocols

Part III. Assessment of Language Skills in Children

Chapter 7. Assessment of Language Skills in Children: Resources
Chapter 8. Assessment of Language Skills: Protocols

Part IV. Assessment of Fluency

Chapter 9. Assessment of Fluency Disorders: Resources
Chapter 10. Assessment of Fluency Disorders: Protocols

Part V. Assessment of Voice

Chapter 11. Assessment of Voice: Resources
Chapter 12. Assessment of Voice: Protocols

Part VI. Assessment of Nonverbal and Minimally Verbal Children

Chapter 13. Assessment of Nonverbal and Minimally Verbal Children: Resources
Chapter 14. Assessment of Nonverbal and Minimally Verbal Children: Protocols
Chapter 15. Assessment for Augmentative and Alternative Communication Systems

Part VII. Literacy

Chapter 16. A Primer on Literacy Assessment

Index

Authors

M.N. Hegde

M. N. Hegde, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Speech-Language Pathology in the Department of Communicative Disorders at California State University, Fresno. A highly regarded and proficient author in speech-language pathology, his books include leading texts for academic courses and valuable resources for practicing clinicians. Dr. Hegde enjoys world renown as a researcher, presenter, contributor of original articles to leading national and international journals, and is also the critically acclaimed author of more than two dozen highly regarded books in speech-language pathology. He has edited more than 25 books for different publishers and is on the editorial board of several scientific journals and has been a guest editor of international journals. He also has served on the editorial boards of scientific and professional journals and continues to serve as an editorial consultant to the Journal of Fluency Disorders and the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology.

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Frances Pomaville

Frances Pomaville, PhD, is a speech-language pathologist and Associate Professor in the Communicative Sciences and Deaf Studies Department at California State University, Fresno. She currently serves as the department's Graduate Coordinator. She has extensive clinical experience in schools, hospitals, and private practice. Prior to accepting a faulty position at California State University, Fresno, Dr. Pomaville was the Director of Clinical Services at San Joaquin Valley Rehabilitation Hospital. She has published in the Journal of Speech, language, and Hearing Research and the Journal of Voice. Dr. Pomaville is a clinical supervisor and teaches undergraduate and graduate level classes on the topics of diagostic procedures, anatomy and physiology, voice disorders, traumatic brain injury, motor speech disorders, and dysphagia. She is a past recipient of the California Speech, Language, and Hearing Association's Fellow of the Association Award, the District 5 Oustanding Achievement Award and Outstanding Service Award, and Fresno State's Outstanding Faculty Award.

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Related Bundles

Assessment of Communication Disorders (Adults and Children Bundle)

These two textbooks offer a unique combination of scholarly information, invaluable resources, and time-saving protocols on assessment of communication disorders in children and adults.

Most resource books offer limited research and scholarly information, thus making them unsuitable as textbooks for academic courses on assessment and diagnosis. Similarly, most traditional textbooks do not include practical, easy-to-use, and time-saving resources and protocols that the practicing clinicians can readily use during assessment sessions. By combining the strengths of traditional textbooks with newer assessment resources and protocols, these texts offer a single, comprehensive source that is suitable for courses on assessment and useful as practical clinical resources.

Key Features of both textbooks

Covers the full range of communication disorders across the lifespan
Addresses the multicultural issues in assessing communication disorders in children and adults and integrates multicultural assessment procedures into the assessment protocols offered for all communication disorders
Contains two chapters for each disorder: one on resources that offers scholarly and research background on the disorder and one on resources that describe practical procedures and protocols
All Resources chapters reflect current research and assessment principles and procedures
Updated listings and descriptions of published, standardized tests that are commonly used in the assessment of communication disorders in children and adults are provided
Revisions of several assessment procedures and protocols, based on recent research, are included
Each chapter contains a summary and sample study questions
Access to PluralPlus companion website available for both books

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Resources

Purchasers of this book receive complimentary access to the assessment protocols hosted on a PluralPlus companion website.

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