Hegde's PocketGuide to Assessment in Speech-Language Pathology

di M.N. Hegde (Autore)

Plural Publishing Inc, 2025

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 fifth edition 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 comprehensive clinical guide useful in everyday practice. With this guide, students and professional clinicians have, at their fingertips, the encyclopedic knowledge of the entire range of assessment concepts, methods, and practical and easy-to-follow procedures. The guide offers 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 assessment and treatment targets. The information may be efficiently reviewed before assessment sessions, course examinations, and the Praxis test in speech-language pathology. New to the Fifth Edition New information on teleassessment procedures, limitations, and possibilities relative to disorders of communication A new entry on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in assessment, its application, current limitations, and future possibilities Expanded description of Quality of Life (QoL) assessments for specific disorders as well as a separate entry New information on ethnographic interview of clients and family members Streamlined and enhanced information on social communication assessment Updated new entry on assessment of communication disorders in ethnoculturally diverse individuals Updated and reformatted entry on genetic and congenital disorders 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 procedures Detailed diagnostic and differential diagnostic guidelines on disorders that tend to be confused Assessment guidelines and procedures for African American and bilingual individuals, including the Hispanic, Native American, and Asian American persons with communication disorders Also Available Hegde's PocketGuide to Treatment in Speech-Language Pathology, Fifth Edition

• Autore: M.N. Hegde
• Editore: Plural Publishing Inc
• Anno: 2025
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 576 p.
• Dimensioni: 203 x 114 mm
• EAN: 9781635507850

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