Hegde's PocketGuide to Assessment in Speech-Language Pathology

Assessment PocketGuide, 5th Edition

Now in its fifth edition, Hegde's PocketGuide to Assessment in Speech-Language Pathology is a renowned resource, the first of its kind, and now a classic in communication sciences and disorders.

This new, fifth edition of the PocketGuide to Assessment, retains and enhances its unique feature of three books in one: a dictionary of assessment procedures, a textbook on assessment of every disorder of communication, and a very practical and comprehensive clinical guide that clinicians can use in their everyday practice. With this guide, both students and professional clinicians may have—at their fingertips—the encyclopedic knowledge of the entire range of assessment concepts and approaches, common methods and procedures, standardized tests as well as client specific alternatives, and specific guidelines and techniques to assess all disorders of communication, including those in ethnoculturally diverse individuals.

The speech-language pathologist that has this handy guide in his or her pocket will have a quick as well as a detailed description of not only standard and standardized assessment procedures, but also task-oriented assessment outlines the clinician may follow in assessing every client with any kind of communication disorder. Many assessment outlines are self-sufficient in the manner of client-specific or criterion-referenced procedures that help evaluate impaired tasks that are also treatment targets. If preferred, clinicians may not need any other assessment procedures, including standardized tests, to make a thorough diagnostic and differential diagnostic assessment.  The information may be easily and quickly reviewed before assessment sessions, course examinations, and the Praxis test in speech-language pathology.

New to the Fourth Edition

• Streamlined and enhanced information on social communication assessment that includes all pragmatic language skills assessment
• Expanded description of Quality of Life (QoL) assessments under each major disorder of communication as well as in a new entry
• Information on qualitative versus quantitative assessment
• New information on ethnographic interview of clients and family members 
• New information on teleassessment procedures, limitations, and possibilities relative to disorders of communication
• A new entry on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in assessment, its application to specific disorders, its current limitations, and future possibilities  
• A streamlined and updated new entry on assessment of communication disorders in ethnoculturally diverse individuals  
• Updated and reformatted entry on genetic and congenital disorders associated with communication disorders 
• All entries updated to reflect current practice, procedures, and the research base for every disorder of communication
• Tables of standardized tests and other materials better integrated with the main entry 
• Information on newer standardized tests and evidence-based alternative approaches to assess ethnoculturally diverse individuals
• Succinct presentation of assessment outlines that clinicians can use during assessment
• Liberal use of heading styles for quicker access to assessment subtopics or procedures

Key Features

• Current knowledge on assessment philosophies, approaches, and techniques
• Alphabetical entries and section tabs for ease of access
• Underlined terms that alert the reader for cross-referenced entries on related concepts and procedures
• Detailed diagnostic guidelines on disorders of communication
• Detailed differential diagnostic guidelines on disorders that tend to be confused
• Summaries of developmental norms
• Assessment guidelines and procedures for African American and bilingual individuals, including the Hispanic, Native American, and Asian American persons with communication disorders.