Here's How to Do Therapy Hands-on Core Skills in Speech-Language Pathology

Unique in its design and content, this book-DVD combination helps clinicians enhance their skills by working through guided practices of skills and concepts on topics such as developing the therapeutic mindset, appropriate proximity, stimulus presentation, and much more. The use of task-analysis for development of specific underlying therapeutic skills makes therapy provision logical and manageable. The author focuses on the fundamental activities that occur within the speech-language therapy session and on specific core skills of the therapeutic process. She provides definitions of numerous research-based terms related to underlying skills within the speech-language therapy session and offers guided practice and demonstrations of approximately 15 fundamental therapeutic skills in the form of systematic "workshops" that include both scripted and DVD demonstrations of skills using advance organizers, definitions/demonstrations, think-out-loud questions, prompts for practice, and post organizers for each therapy skill addressed. A 50-minute DVD accompanies the text and adds significantly to the tutorial aspects of the book by presenting visual demonstrations of skills. One- to three-minute vignettes give viewers examples of how nine specific therapeutic skills can be implemented into real therapy sessions. Then, in two 15-minute sessions of therapy, viewers are given examples of the implementation of basic articulation and basic language therapy from introduction to closing, demonstrations that are invaluable to the beginning and practicing SLP. This invaluable digital resource gives clinicians an opportunity to study at length-as often as needed - the specific underlying skills needed toprovide effective therapy. Here's How to Do Therapy is an ideal text plus DVD for clinical practicum experiences or clinical management courses, as well as an individual guide book for those engaged in SLP intervention.Dwight, Debra M. is the author of 'Here's How to Do Therapy Hands-on Core Skills in Speech-Language Pathology', published 2005 under ISBN 9781597560023 and ISBN 1597560022.