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Overview
Aside from the positive aspects of involvement of families, legislation and outcome targets mean that knowing how to most effectively interact with and involve families in intervention is of increasing importance to clinicians. Working with Families in Speech-Language Pathology provides a comprehensive guide for speech-language pathologists, audiologists, teachers, and other professionals about working with parents and families in intervention for young children.Synopsis
Aside from the positive aspects of involvement of families, legislation and outcome targets mean that knowing how to most effectively interact with and involve families in intervention is of increasing importance to clinicians. Working with Families in Speech-Language Pathology provides a comprehensive guide for speech-language pathologists, audiologists, teachers, and other professionals about working with parents and families in intervention for young children.
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Reviewer:Amanda N Ihle, B.S.(George Washington University)
Description:This comprehensive tool analyzes research outcomes and provides applications on how to effectively and efficaciously work with families who have children with speech and language impairments.
Purpose:The purpose is to draw attention to the importance of family interaction when working with children who have speech and language impairments by addressing the history of speech pathologists' involvement with families and to provide a comprehensive literature review that describes the level of parental involvement that yields the greatest treatment outcomes. The authors chose a topic of increasing importance within the field of speech-language pathology that has not been written and compiled so thoroughly before. The book exceeds the authors' objectives.
Audience:The authors suggest that this book is intended for practitioners in many different fields as it serves as a textbook and a reference. However, due to the number of charts, the literature reviews, and terminology used, this book would serve predominantly as a reference for practicing speech-language pathologists or researchers in the field.
Features:The organization of the book makes it easy to navigate. The evidence derived from the literature reviews is easy to understand and use to rationalize/explain a particular approach to parents. Extensive charts with shaded features draw the readers' attention to particular sections. However, the charts are not concise and often are redundant. Additionally, the scope of the book is narrow, focusing only on the pediatric population. Lastly, the book should have included additional diagnoses while many of the documented diagnoses should have been given more attention (i.e. the chapter on working with families of children who stutter).
Assessment:This is a very useful reference for speech pathologists working with pediatric patients. It documents well-researched rationales for using various therapeutic approaches in an organized fashion on a topic of increasing importance within the field.
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Reviewer: Amanda N Ihle, B.S.(George Washington University)Description: This comprehensive tool analyzes research outcomes and provides applications on how to effectively and efficaciously work with families who have children with speech and language impairments.
Purpose: "The purpose is to draw attention to the importance of family interaction when working with children who have speech and language impairments by addressing the history of speech pathologists' involvement with families and to provide a comprehensive literature review that describes the level of parental involvement that yields the greatest treatment outcomes. The authors chose a topic of increasing importance within the field of speech-language pathology that has not been written and compiled so thoroughly before. The book exceeds the authors' objectives. "
Audience: The authors suggest that this book is intended for practitioners in many different fields as it serves as a textbook and a reference. However, due to the number of charts, the literature reviews, and terminology used, this book would serve predominantly as a reference for practicing speech-language pathologists or researchers in the field.
Features: The organization of the book makes it easy to navigate. The evidence derived from the literature reviews is easy to understand and use to rationalize/explain a particular approach to parents. Extensive charts with shaded features draw the readers' attention to particular sections. However, the charts are not concise and often are redundant. Additionally, the scope of the book is narrow, focusing only on the pediatric population. Lastly, the book should have included additional diagnoses while many of the documented diagnoses should have been given more attention (i.e. the chapter on working with families of children who stutter).
Assessment: This is a very useful reference for speech pathologists working with pediatric patients. It documents well-researched rationales for using various therapeutic approaches in an organized fashion on a topic of increasing importance within the field.