A Guide for Parents, Teachers and Other Professionals
Parents of children who stammer (also called a stutter) may see their child suffering with embarrassment, frustration or anxiety but feel at a loss as to how best to help.The book explains stammering from a child's point of view, using firsthand accounts to demonstrate the common feelings of anguish experienced, and clarifying what the child is ......
Interactive Activities Combining Speech Language Pathology and Adaptive Physical Education
America X. Gonzalez is a Speech Language Pathologist Assistant, Lois Brady is a Speech Language Pathologist with 20 years' experience, and Jim Elliott is an Adapted Physical Educator. For the past 5 years they have worked together at Spectrum Center San Pablo, a private school for children with autism, Asperger Syndrome and severe emotional ......
Intensive Interaction is an extremely effective approach for communicating and developing emotional engagement with difficult-to-reach individuals. This easy-to-use guide steers those who wish to use Intensive Interaction through its practical application, showing how positive results can be achieved by everyone.The three-part structure explains ......
"Counselling People with Communication Problems" provides a practical and accessible step-by-step guide for those working with people who experience disorders of speech, language, voice and fluency. The author, herself both a speech and language therapist and a counsellor, emphasizes how counselling has come to play an increasing part in practitioners' approaches to communication problems. She evaluates the forms of counselling that are currently practised alongside direct treatment of the disorders themselves, and addresses issues of training and the responsibilities of counsellors, asking for greater training opportunities and a wider provision of counselling in this field. The book also explores the effects of communication problems on the person's sense of self, relationships and perceptions of the world. Peggy Dalton stresses the need for a greater understanding of the experiences of people whose lives may be severely limited by their communication problems, and shows how important it is to find ways of discovering the personal meaning of experience when it is unable to be expressed in words.
A manual for the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs). This edition presents instructions for administering and scoring the forms; a set of normative data and guidelines for using this data; an overview of the CDI-III; information on scanning and automated scoring options; and more.
Firestone explains the underlying theory of his voice therapy technique, maintaining that people are pre vented from experiencing an individuated life by the pressur es of society and that these forces are represented by inter nal voices. '
"Counselling People with Communication Problems" provides a practical and accessible step-by-step guide for those working with people who experience disorders of speech, language, voice and fluency. The author, herself both a speech and language therapist and a counsellor, emphasizes how counselling has come to play an increasing part in practitioners' approaches to communication problems. She evaluates the forms of counselling that are currently practised alongside direct treatment of the disorders themselves, and addresses issues of training and the responsibilities of counsellors, asking for greater training opportunities and a wider provision of counselling in this field. The book also explores the effects of communication problems on the person's sense of self, relationships and perceptions of the world. Peggy Dalton stresses the need for a greater understanding of the experiences of people whose lives may be severely limited by their communication problems, and shows how important it is to find ways of discovering the personal meaning of experience when it is unable to be expressed in words.
