PDF-(BOOK)-Clinical Decision Making in Fluency Disorders

This thoroughly updated edition provides an expansive discussion of the therapeutic journey to increasing fluency Humor creativity and other effective clinical techniques and principles are presented using a framework of personal experience Thoroughly discussed are the options and challenges faced by those who stutter and the clinicians who assist them in effectively communicating Whether you are a student or a clinician this text will provide you with the tools essential in making stuttering less of a mystery Benefits NEW Expand your clinical capabilities with a new chapter on the diagnosis and treatment of individuals with atypical fluency problems NEW Enhance your understanding of the techniques discussed in the text with online video and audio clips of actual treatment sessions Learn to effectively assess and apply clinical techniques with Clinical Decision Making boxes Help guide individuals who stutter towards effective communication through study of Clinical Insight boxes Increase your knowledge of fluency disorders by researching the Topics for Discussion at the end of each chapter. National Pediatric Nighttime Curriculum. Written by Noemi Adame, MD. University of TX Health Science Center San Antonio. Learning Objectives. Upon completion of this module, the learner will be able to independently:. Learning Outcomes. Identify the steps in the decision-making process. Describe various models of decision making. Discuss the individual influences that affect decision making. Explain how groups make decisions. Conference. Building . the Bridge: Maintaining Quality in the Face of Change . September . 20-21, . 2012. San . Antonio, . Texas. (Making) Shared Decision Making . Part of “. Usual Care. ”. David Wennberg. Statin Choice Decision Aid Share-Decision Making SCIP Shared Decision Making Shared Decision Making Glasziou and Haynes ACP JC 2005 Promote a process where patients and clinicians make a choice together. \"Fluency disorders such as stuttering, cluttering, and atypical disfluency are often accompanied by concomitant speech and language disorders, as well as other disorders impacting and interacting with fluency. Despite this common presentation, there is little training for speech-language pathologists to confidently treat fluency disorders and concomitant disorders together
. Fluency Plus: Managing Fluency Disorders in Individuals with Multiple Diagnoses
fills this much-needed gap, providing a strong research base along with practical strategies and treatment activities to guide speech-language pathologists in managing clients with fluency and concomitant disorders. Dr. Kathleen Scaler Scott brings her years of clinical experience and her research in the areas of stuttering, cluttering and atypical disfluencies to
Fluency Plus,
designing it to act as both a textbook for students and a practical guide for the clinician. The comprehensive review of current definitions of fluency disorders and the evidence base for treatments will be of great help to students, while clinicians will appreciate the specific guidelines, strategies, and activities for managing fluency in concomitant disorders. After reviewing general principles and covering how executive functions relate to the management of these multiple concerns, the text addresses seven concomitant disorder areas the speech-language pathologist may encounter in practice. For each disorder category, an overview of potential fluency problems is provided, myths regarding treatment of fluency disorders in each population are debunked, and effective treatment activities are recommended.Some Concomitant Disorders Covered:Intellectual DisabilitySpeech Sound Disorders (apraxia, phonological, articulation disorders)Learning Disabilities, Auditory Processing and Language DisordersAttention Deficit Hyperactivity DisorderAutism Spectrum DisorderSelective Mutism
Fluency Plus: Managing Fluency Disorders in Individuals with Multiple Diagnoses
helps close an education and training gap for students and clinicians alike by increasing their confidence, knowledge, and skills when dealing with fluency disorders and complex combinations of concomitant disorders.  \" This thoroughly updated edition provides an expansive discussion of the therapeutic journey to increasing fluency. Humor, creativity, and other effective clinical techniques and principles are presented using a framework of personal experience. Thoroughly discussed are the options and challenges faced by those who stutter and the clinicians who assist them in effectively communicating. Whether you are a student or a clinician, this text will provide you with the tools essential in making stuttering less of a mystery. Benefits: NEW! Expand your clinical capabilities with a new chapter on the diagnosis and treatment of individuals with atypical fluency problems. NEW! Enhance your understanding of the techniques discussed in the text with online video and audio clips of actual treatment sessions. Learn to effectively assess and apply clinical techniques with Clinical Decision Making boxes. Help guide individuals who stutter towards effective communication through study of Clinical Insight boxes. Increase your knowledge of fluency disorders by researching the Topics for Discussion at the end of each chapter. SLPs—get ready to work effectively with children and adolescents who have developmental language disorders with this indispensable resource. Highly respected editors Alan G. Kamhi, Julie J. Masterson, and Kenn Apel have developed a comprehensive, one-of-a-kind text thatTeaches assessment and intervention. The book\'s first half shows SLPs how to assess spoken and written communication skills and select targets for intervention, and the second half is an extensive guide to interventions for specific areas of language development.Covers the widest range of topics. Current and future practitioners will get clear, explicit guidance on all the practical issues they\'ll face on a daily basis.Addresses a broad age span. Readers will discover how to manage the specific issues they\'ll encounter when assessing and intervening with infants, toddlers, preschool children, school-age children, and adolescents.Incorporates both scientific evidence and clinical insight. More than two dozen expert contributors lay out the latest research and add their own wisdom from years of practice—showing readers how to use sound clinical judgment to fill the gaps in available evidence.The most complete treatment of this critical subject area, this essential text will prepare SLPs to make the best possible clinical decisions—and improve the communication and overall quality of life for children and adolescents with developmental language disorders.Clinical Decision Making in Developmental Language Disorders is a part of the Communication and Language Intervention Series \"Fluency disorders such as stuttering, cluttering, and atypical disfluency are often accompanied by concomitant speech and language disorders, as well as other disorders impacting and interacting with fluency. Despite this common presentation, there is little training for speech-language pathologists to confidently treat fluency disorders and concomitant disorders together
. Fluency Plus: Managing Fluency Disorders in Individuals with Multiple Diagnoses
fills this much-needed gap, providing a strong research base along with practical strategies and treatment activities to guide speech-language pathologists in managing clients with fluency and concomitant disorders. Dr. Kathleen Scaler Scott brings her years of clinical experience and her research in the areas of stuttering, cluttering and atypical disfluencies to
Fluency Plus,
designing it to act as both a textbook for students and a practical guide for the clinician. The comprehensive review of current definitions of fluency disorders and the evidence base for treatments will be of great help to students, while clinicians will appreciate the specific guidelines, strategies, and activities for managing fluency in concomitant disorders. After reviewing general principles and covering how executive functions relate to the management of these multiple concerns, the text addresses seven concomitant disorder areas the speech-language pathologist may encounter in practice. For each disorder category, an overview of potential fluency problems is provided, myths regarding treatment of fluency disorders in each population are debunked, and effective treatment activities are recommended.Some Concomitant Disorders Covered:Intellectual DisabilitySpeech Sound Disorders (apraxia, phonological, articulation disorders)Learning Disabilities, Auditory Processing and Language DisordersAttention Deficit Hyperactivity DisorderAutism Spectrum DisorderSelective Mutism
Fluency Plus: Managing Fluency Disorders in Individuals with Multiple Diagnoses
helps close an education and training gap for students and clinicians alike by increasing their confidence, knowledge, and skills when dealing with fluency disorders and complex combinations of concomitant disorders.  \" This one-of-a-kind resource presents a wide range of expert opinions about phonological disorders in children, allowing readers to understand and compare diverse approaches to assessment and intervention, choose the ones that will work best, and use their new knowledge to make decisions during clinical interventions. For each of the book\'s three sections—Assessment and Classification, Goal and Target Selection, and Intervention —the editors pose important frequently asked questions for each contributor to answer, such asWhich diagnostic classification system do you find useful?How does your assessment differ for children of different ages, developmental levels, or linguistic backgrounds?How do you integrate language goals with phonological goals?What factors influence your selection of treatment goals and targets?When should a child receive individual therapy as opposed to group therapy?What do you do when your intervention plan is not working?Through the theoretical insights and practical experience each contributor shares— and a helpful conclusion that comments on all the approaches discussed — readers will have the broad and balanced knowledge they need for informed clinical decision making. Speech-language pathologists, graduate students, audiologists, and educators will use this comprehensive, accessible resource to shape their practices and improve the lives of children with phonological disorders.Phonological Disorders in Children is a part of the Communication and Language Intervention Series This thoroughly updated edition provides an expansive discussion of the therapeutic journey to increasing fluency. Humor, creativity, and other effective clinical techniques and principles are presented using a framework of personal experience. Thoroughly discussed are the options and challenges faced by those who stutter and the clinicians who assist them in effectively communicating. Whether you are a student or a clinician, this text will provide you with the tools essential in making stuttering less of a mystery. Benefits: NEW! Expand your clinical capabilities with a new chapter on the diagnosis and treatment of individuals with atypical fluency problems. NEW! Enhance your understanding of the techniques discussed in the text with online video and audio clips of actual treatment sessions. Learn to effectively assess and apply clinical techniques with Clinical Decision Making boxes. Help guide individuals who stutter towards effective communication through study of Clinical Insight boxes. Increase your knowledge of fluency disorders by researching the Topics for Discussion at the end of each chapter. This popular reference facilitates diagnostic and therapeutic decision making for a wide range of common and often complex problems faced in outpatient and inpatient medicine. Comprehensive algorithmic decision trees guide you through more than 250 disorders organized by sign, symptom, problem, or laboratory abnormality. The brief text accompanying each algorithm explains the key steps of the decision making process, giving you the clear, clinical guidelines you need to successfully manage even your toughest cases.An algorithmic format makes it easy to apply the practical, decision-making approaches used by seasoned clinicians in daily practice. Comprehensive coverage of general and internal medicine helps you successfully diagnose and manage a full range of diseases and disorders related to women\'s health, emergency medicine, urology, behavioral medicine, pharmacology, and much more.A Table of Contents arranged by organ system helps you to quickly and easily zero in on the information you need.More than a dozen new topics focus on the key diseases and disorders encountered in daily practice.Fully updated decision trees guide you through the latest diagnostic and management guidelines. Never before have the powerful techniques of decision analysis had more importance for patient and doctor. This book translates the major principles of medical decision making into clinically relevant and easy-to-understand terms. Filled with examples drawn from patient care and familiar games of chance, Making Medical Decisions teaches the reader how to feel confident about giving the best advice in the face of the inherent uncertainties of real-world medicine. Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex (vmPFC) Connectivity in Eating Disorders. Brenna Bray. March 24, 2017. http://. www.stop-binging.com. /. wp. -content/. uploads/2016/04/Long-term-effects-of-. bulimia.jpg.