Wright Jannet A. - Speech and language therapy: the decision-making process when working with children

Speech and Language Therapy

Now in its second edition, Speech and Language Therapy: the decision-making process when working with children reveals how recent research and changes in health and education services have affected the decision-making process in the assessment and management of children with speech and language problems.

With individual chapters written by experts in their field, this book:

• illustrates how the decisions made by practitioners may vary within different work set-tings;
• shows how these decisions may need to be adapted when working with specific client groups;
• explores how such decisions are part of effective evidence-based practice;
• offers an overview of the skills required by the developing professional;
• provides insight into working as a newly qualified therapist in the current job market.

Rigorously underpinned with current research and revised legislation, this is an important textbook for speech and language therapy students, potential students and specialist teachers in training. Speech and Language Therapy: the decision-making process when working with children will also be relevant to newly qualified therapists, therapists returning to the profession, specialist teachers and Special Educational Needs Coordinators.

Myra Kersner lectures at University College London, UK.

Jannet A. Wright is Professor of Speech and Language Therapy and Head of the Speech and Language Therapy Division at De Montfort University, UK.

Speech and Language Therapy

The decision-making process when working with children

Second edition

Edited by Myra Kersner and Jannet A. Wright

First published 2001

This second edition published 2012

by Routledge

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2012 Myra Kersner and Jannet A. Wright.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Kersner, Myra.

Speech and language therapy : the decision making process when working with children / Myra Kersner, Jannet A. Wright. 2nd ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Speech disorders in children. 2. Speech therapy for children. I. Wright, Jannet A. II. Title.

RJ496.S7K42 2012

618.92'855dc23

2011036751

ISBN: 978-0-415-61407-8 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-415-61408-5 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-0-203-12559-5 (ebk)

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Contributors

Carolyn Anderson is a senior lecturer at the University of Strathclyde and course director for the BSc (Hons) in Speech and Language Pathology. Her specialist areas are professional development, speech development and disorders, cerebral palsy and learning disabilities. She is co-author of Speech and Language Therapy: issues in professional practice.

Sally Bates is a Senior Lecturer at University College Plymouth St Mark and St John. Her specialist areas are clinical linguistics and phonetics and spoken and written language development. Sally co-edited the SLCN module within the government commissioned E-Learning for Health System, co-authoring sessions on typical development, SSI and SLI. She is also a co-author of the Clinical Assessment of Vowels English Systems (CAV-ES).

Sarah Beazley is a Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Manchester and a Consultant Speech and Language Therapist working with deaf people for Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust. She lectures for CSD Consultants who train speech and language therapists working in the field of deafness. She was a Speech Therapy Advisor at the RNID. She is co-author of Deaf Children, their Families and Professionals: dismantling barriers.

Monica Bray is now retired from her post as Senior Lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University, although she is still involved in some tutoring and teaching. She continues to work with children with special needs and their parents. She has contributed chapters on Down syndrome, on learning difficulties and on working with parents in a number of books and is the co-author of Speech and Language Clinical Process and Practice.

Michael Clarke is a Lecturer in speech and language sciences at University College London. As a speech and language therapist his work has primarily been with children with complex communication needs.

Mary Gale is a Senior Team Leader and speech and language therapist in the Community Child Health Partnership, North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol.

Marie Gascoigne is a speech and language therapist. She worked with children with SLI in mainstream schools, lectured at City University, London then developed the Integrated Speech and Language Therapy Service for Children in Hackney and the City. She now works at a national level advising Local Authorities and Primary Care Trusts regarding commissioning and delivery of services for children with SLCN.

Judy Halden is a specialist speech and language therapist for deaf people, a teacher of deaf children and was a Speech Therapy Advisor at the RNID. She works as a specialist teacher for hearing impairment in Hertfordshire; and is an advisor/lecturer at the University of Hertfordshires Teacher of the Deaf course. She also lectures for CSD Consultants and is an Honorary Research Associate at University College London.

Celia Harding is a Senior Lecturer and Clinical Tutor at City University, London. As a speech and language therapist she continues to practise at the Royal Free Hospital as part of the paediatric gastroenterology team. She teaches in the areas of learning disability, which includes augmentative and alternative communication and paediatric dysphagia both at pre-registration and post-registration level.

Anne Harding-Bell leads the specialist speech and language therapy team serving the East of England Cleft Lip and Palate Network based at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge. She also contributes to the Post Graduate Course in Cleft Palate Studies, at the University of Sheffield. Her many publications include a chapter in Cleft Palate Speech: assessment and intervention.

Sarah Hulme is the Head of Speech and Language Therapy in Whittington Health, London. Sarahs clinical speciality was working with pre-school children and their families in parentchild interaction therapy, a technique in which she has trained nationally, and has adapted for developing adultchild interaction techniques for nursery and childrens centre staff.

Nicola Jolleff is a Principal Speech and Language Therapist at Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, London. Her clinical experience has focused on complex communication disorders in association with autism spectrum disorders, epilepsy and rare syndromes such as Angelman, Landau Kleffner and Worster Drought.