Here's How to Do Therapy
Subtitle: hands-on core skills in speech-language pathology
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Plural Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: San Diego, CA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781597565653
Description: The best-selling Here's How to Do Therapy: Hands-on Core Skills in Speech-Language Pathology is back in a newly revised second edition. Unique in design and content, this text and accompanying DVD provide a logical and manageable approach to therapy and help students and practitioners enhance their clinical skills through guided practice of key concepts. Twenty-eight fundamental therapeutic skills are presented in a workshop format using organizers, definitions/demonstrations, think-out-loud questions, prompts for practice, post-organizers, and more. This second edition also includes an all new chapter that examines the concept of critical incidents in learning speech-language therapy and details 18 classroom activities for clinical supervisors and instructors. The 80-minute DVD significantly enhances the tutorial aspect of this text by presenting visual demonstrations of core therapeutic skills. One-to-three-minute vignettes give students real-life examples of implementing these skills and two extended DVD sessions demonstrate the basics of language-based therapy, highlighting articulation and language intervention. Here's How to Do Therapy, Second Edition, is an ideal reference for providing effective therapy for both clinical practicum and management courses, as well as for clinicians engaged in SLP intervention. - Publisher.

Presents an easy-to-read, easy-to-follow guide on conducting effective therapy sessions. The book includes concepts, explanations, and strategies directly keyed to the therapy session and provides checklists and therapeutic-specific workshop forms.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: here's how to use this text; title: Basic considerations for the therapeutic process; title: Foundations for the therapeutic process: overview; title: Learning theories related to speech-language intervention; title: Developmental domains and special classifications related to the therapeutic process : an overview; title: Peripheral speech-language therapy management issues; title: Hands-on core skills: the speech-language pathologist as facilitator of positive communication change; title: Basic structure within the therapeutic process; title: Guided practice in language therapy; title: Guided practice in articulation therapy; title: Guided practice for voice therapy; title: Guided practice for resonance therapy; title: Guided practice for fluency therapy