Survival Guide for the Beginning Speech-Language Pathologist, Second
Edition will guide you when taking your first clinical steps toward a
career as a speech-language pathologist. Graduate and undergraduate
students, as well as beginning therapists, will find this book useful
and easy-to-understand. It provides realistic, practical, and
comprehensive overviews of clinical problems that are often encountered
by beginning clinicians and offers solutions to those problems. It also
prepares you for what you will experience along the way. This text does
not focus on the numerous principles and theories which underlie various
aspects of the clinical process because these are thoroughly covered in
undergraduate and graduate courses. The second edition has expanded and
updated information on many topics, including parent conferences and the
concomitant reports, group therapy and play therapy, preparing for
public schools, and more. Writing quality reports remains a major focus
of the book. Drawing on her more than 30 years of experience, the author
teaches the ins and outs of report writing. She provides many real-world
examples of reports, showing what to do and what not to do. You'll make
the transition from theory to practice much easier using this book as
your guide. Let this book help you avoid common pitfalls and provide you
with a solid foundation for your practice--from the very first day in
the clinic.
