Assessment In Speech-Language Pathology: A Resource Manual Download Free (EPUB, PDF)

                
              
Assessment In Speech-Language Pathology: A Resource Manual Download Free (EPUB, PDF)
This best-selling, widely lauded resource has been carefully revised to be the most important edition yet. Clinicians have come to depend on this accessible, easy to navigate resource manual for a wide range of procedures and materials for obtaining, interpreting, and reporting assessment data. In this new edition, you'll find a new chapter on literacy, including much-needed information on reading and writing assessment. There is also updated and expanded coverage of autism, auditory processing disorders, and pediatric dysphagia. The reproducible, customizable forms have been updated as needed, both in the text and in the accompanying CD-ROM, giving you unlimited access to these clinical resources. Now in beautiful full color, all illustrations have been completely updated for greater clarity and diversity. Additionally, chapters are color coded for easy navigation. Clinicians, instructors, and students all agree that this is one of the most valuable assessment resources available to speech-language pathologists.
Spiral-bound: 672 pages
Publisher: Cengage Learning; 4th edition (October 6, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1418053287
ISBN-13: 978-1418053284
Product Dimensions:  10.7 x 9.2 x 1.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:  4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
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Filled with report-writing samples and assessment examples, this text is very well organized and practical. It summarizes and outlines the topics of each chapter and then includes very functional worksheets, checklists (i.e. Checklist of Early Literacy Skills), stimulus materials (e.g. various Reading Examples for different age groups), large/legible diagrams (the Speech Banana, Age of Acquisition of Sounds), and reference tables such as "Differentiating the Six Dysarthrias" and The "Frequency of Occurrence of Individual English Consonants." The CD contains 61 EDITABLE forms and worksheets (case history forms, language sampling, DDK rates). Each is in Adobe Acrobat and then either Word or Excel formats. If you're going to be a clinical SLP, SLPA or graduate student this text is a keeper, and I'd highly recommend making sure the CD is included if you buy your texts used. Note, it is spiral bound and soft cover. The advantage is the book can fold over to one-page when open. Great for smaller desktops or if you're using the book itself in clinic. The disadvantage is you might see some wear and tear on the binding and covers faster. Also this books does not go very in-depth or contain tons of references to outside literature/research, background anatomy, etiologies.... So for teaching Assessment it may be (but not necessarily needs to be) supplemented with a more traditional text book like Diagnosis in Speech-Language Pathology (Tomblin, Morris, Spriestersbach). Still, as a resource manual and overview book, Shipley & McAfee are outstanding, and I wouldn't want to do without it! I say thanks to them, and I hope this info helps you.
There are some serious flaws with the Kindle version of this book. First, you do not get all the printable forms that you get on the CD that comes with the regular book. Second, it will not allow me to open the book on my PC, only on my tablet. Third, there is actual content missing from the book. Several of the charts and tables are simply not there. Instead there is a message saying, "Text not available due to copyright restrictions."  should definitely warn you about this, but they do not.
This book may seem elementary to seasoned SLPs, but as a graduate student I find it very easy to use. It is clear, straight to the point and easy to navigate. This is one of the most comprehensive books I have purchsed in regards to assessment and it has been required for 2 of my classes now. There are tons of report examples, goal writing tips, oral mech strategies, colorful pictures as well as generic forms. The CD is not really interactive, but it has printable/editable forms. A friend of mine is a practicing SLP and she continues to refer to this book. Highly recommended!
This was a required textbook for my diagnostics class and I have LOVED it. It is full of good information but on top of that the design is streamlined and straightforward. It is well organized and FULL of incredibly useful charts, questionnaires, lists, tables. This is hands-down the most broadly useful textbook I have bought. I am still in grad school and internships and I use it regularly even though the class was a year or more ago, and I will definitely be using materials out of it when I am working in the field next year. I highly recommend it and if you don't feel like you have a good assessment book, get this one! The only drawback is that I didn't think the content of the disc was super helpful. I would read the manufacturer's specs just to be sure you want it before spending extra on one that includes it.
Be very wary before buying the Kindle edition of this workbook. I have counted 13 sections that state "Text not available due to copyright restrictions." There is no indication of what material is missing or how important it might be. If the authors couldn't get authorization to print the omitted sections, they should have either shared where the information could be found, or included alternate information that could supplement it.Both  and the authors should be ashamed for selling this edition for as much as it is with missing information.
A very helpful resource for assessment (language, articulation, voice, stuttering, neurogenic etc.) It has various lists of norms and sample reports. I found the additions to this version very useful. The CD ROM for printable forms (and some are also editable) makes my life so much easier. The pictures and diagrams for testing and training are colorful. I would recommend this product to any clinician - new or experienced.
The materials and information are great and useful for beginning clinical work. Unfortunately, the spiral-bound book itself is flimsy, and I don't expect it to last throughout my grad program. There are many appendices and materials that need to be photocopied, but the pages are extremely thin and prone to tearing out of the spiral binding. Extremely frustrating to pay this much for a book that won't last!!
This text book had a lot of useful assessment forms and I found it useful for my communication disorders assessment class. It would be useful for screening children or adults to see if formal testing is needed if you didn't have your own screening forms.
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