Synopses & Reviews
This adult-centered book meets the demand for the problem-solving and decision-making process involved with clinical intervention planning for adult communication problems. Readers are introduced to theories of learning rehabilitation that apply specifically to treatment of adult communication problems. With its clinical and practical orientation, this book applies an intervention planning model to specific language disorder types and levels of severity. The authors suggest that current thinking regarding speech and language disorders in children also hold true for adults. Interactions among semantic, syntactic, phonologic, and pragmatic components are thus a key topic of this book. The authors also explain how impaired speech and language performance may rest on the relationship between linguistic and nonlinguistic behavioral systems such as the cognitive, sensorimotor, and psychosocial. This book also offers suggestions on how to make management decisions at three major points in the intervention process, regardless of speech/language disorder type and severity. Selected areas of adult intervention include: aphasia and related disorders, motor speech disorders, language learning disabilities, fluency disorders, voice disorders, and bidialectal/bicultural phonological differences. In addition, this book guides the reader in the derivation of intervention goals and procedures, moving from the development of long-term goals and procedural approaches to specific session goals and procedures. Anyone who practices or is interested in speech-language pathology.
Table of Contents
All chapters close with “Summary” and “References.”
1.Introduction to the Intervention-Planning Process with Adults.
The Adult Client.
Components of Intervention Planning for Adults.
Categories of Knowledge Utilized in Intervention Planning.
2.The Phases of Intervention Planning.
The Long-Term Planning Phase.
The Short-Term Planning Phase.
The Session-Planning Phase.
3.Funds of Knowledge for Intervention Planning with Adults: Normal Communication and Discourse.
Overview.
The Discourse Functions and Conventions of Communication and Language.
Conversation.
Narratives.
4.Funds of Knowledge for Intervention Planning with Adults: Language Content and Form.
Overview.
Content.
Content/Form Interactions: Lexicon.
Content/Form Interactions: Syntax.
5.Funds of Knowledge for Intervention Planning with Adults: Maintaining Factors.
Psychosocial Factors.
Cognition.
Sensorimotor.
6.Funds of Knowledge for Intervention Planning with Adults: Theories of Adult Language Learning and Rehabilitation.
Behaviorism/Operant Theory.
Constructivist Cognitive Theory.
Social-Cognitive Learning Theories.
Functional Communication Theory.
Motor Theory.
Theories of Discourse Comprehension.
7.Intervention Planning for Adults with Language-Learning Disabilities.
Characteristics of Speech, Language, and Communication Functioning in Adults with Language-Learning Disabilities.
Maintaining Factors.
Theories of Learning and Rehabilitation.
Performance Demands.
Case Study: Baseline Data.
Long-Term Planning Phase.
Short-Term Planning Phase.
Session Planning Phase.
8.Intervention Planning for Adult Aphasia.
Introduction.
Categories of Aphasia.
Models of Aphasia Rehabilitation.
Maintaining Factors.
Case Study.
9.Intervention Planning for Adults with Voice Disorders.
Introduction.
What Constitutes a Voice Disorder.
Classifying Voice Disorders.
Sources of Information for Intervention Planning.
Case Study.
Additional Comments Concerning Treatment.
Lack of Access to Laboratory Instrumentation: A Clinical Reality.
10.Intervention Planning with Adults Who Stutter.
Introduction.
Definition of Terms.
Differential Diagnostic Characteristics of Stuttering.
Etiology and Conceptualizations of Stuttering.
Performance Demands: In Search of Universal Truth.
Guiding Intervention Assumptions.
Case Example: Initial Clinical Portrait.
Long-Term Goals and Procedural Approach.
Short-Term Goals and Procedural Approach.
Session Goals and Procedures.
11.Intervention Planning for Second Language Phonology.
Nature of the Problem.
Sources of Information for Intervention Planning.
Case History Information on José.
The Management Plan.