Publisher's Synopsis
THE ADULT SPEECH THERAPY PROTOCOLS PACK is your instruction manual for adult speech therapy. It will guide you through effective, evidence-based speech therapy treatment options for your patients and includes step-by-step protocols whenever possible.
WHAT'S INCLUDED: Speech therapy protocols and treatment guides for Dysphagia, Aphasia, AAC, Fluency, Voice, Resonance, Dysarthria, Apraxia of Speech, Memory, Attention, Executive Functioning, & Visual Neglect.
ABOUT THE PROTOCOL PACK:
- Adult speech therapy: Learn effective treatments for common diagnoses and disorders across adult speech therapy, including stroke, Parkinson's disease, TBI, dementia, ALS, and more.
- Evidence-based yet practical. Draws from 300+ journal articles, textbooks, and other high-quality references (includes reference list and in-text citations). Peer-reviewed by expert clinicians and university professors to ensure the content is both accurate and practical.
- Written by Chung Hwa Brewer a speech-language pathologist, university instructor, author, and co-founder of adultspeechtherapy.co
- Peer Reviewed by Alisha Kleindel MA, CCC-SLP & Hillary Edwards MA, CCC-SLP
WHAT'S INCLUDED IN EACH CHAPTER OF THE PROTOCOLS PACK:
- Each chapter covers a major area of adult speech therapy (Dysphagia, Aphasia, Voice, Memory, etc.)
- Protocols: Step-by-step instructions for how to do a specific treatment (Ice Chip Protocol, Forward Focus, Integral Stimulation, etc.)
- Treatment Guides: General guidance on how to do treatments that don't have protocols (functional cognitive treatments, AAC for aphasia, etc.)
- Summaries of evidence-based treatments sold/offered by other sources (LSVT, Cognitive Stimulation Therapy, etc.)
- Referrals. Common referrals for each area of speech therapy.
- Environmental modifications. How to maximize each patient's environment for improved outcomes.
- In-text citations to evidence-based references.
