A Guide to School Services in Speech-Language Pathology, Fifth Edition

A Guide to School Services in Speech-Language Pathology, Fifth Edition is an essential resource for school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs), educators, and students in training. This comprehensive text provides an up-to-date overview of school-based SLP services, integrating legal mandates, evidence-based practices, and practical strategies to enhance student outcomes. Through real-world examples, pedagogical features, and digital resources, the book prepares practitioners to deliver effective, equitable, and culturally competent services across diverse educational settings.

Key Features:

• Offers a thorough overview of school-based SLP services, including historical context and relevant legislation such as IDEA, ESSA, and the Americans with Disabilities Act, with discussion of recent landmark court rulings.
• Includes pedagogical tools such as chapter vocabulary, summaries, guiding questions, and real-life success stories to enhance comprehension and classroom discussion.
• Addresses service delivery options, workload analysis, IEP goal development, flexible scheduling, and evidence-based practice implementation.
• Provides guidance for assessing multilingual learners using dynamic, authentic, and criterion-referenced tools.
• Covers proactive behavior management, professional collaboration, conferencing, counseling, and cultural competence.
• Updated Fifth Edition content includes COVID-19 impacts, telepractice, and modernized inclusive language reflecting neurodiversity and societal diversity.
• Features updated evidence-based strategies across key areas, including articulation, phonology, language and literacy, voice, feeding and swallowing, AAC, social-cognitive communication, hearing habilitation, and general clinical strategies.
• Offers digital and online resources for instructors (PowerPoint slides, test bank) and students (downloadable forms, checklists, apps, and video modeling).
• Integrates research-based practices linking language, literacy, and school achievement standards.