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172 JCPSLP Volume 17, Number 3 2015 Journal of Clinical Practice in Speech-Language Pathology
The book’s strengths lie in its teaching of practical and
clinical skills, and in this it fills a gap in the literature. It
also presents these in a readable and interactive format,
using examples, workshop forms for guided practice and
a readable style. However, I found the book to be quite
repetitive and some of the information presented in the
earlier chapters, such as that on typical developmental
expectations and learning theories, is covered in fuller detail
in other broader introductory texts to speech and language
development and disorders. The style of clinician interaction
described in the text and illustrated in the DVD vignettes
also may not appeal to an Australian audience which might
find it too didactic in style. I am not convinced it will appeal
to a wide range of Australian speech pathologists.
which continue to be commonly drawn upon despite little
scientific evidence as to their utility as an instructionally
useful concept in differentiated instruction.
Chapter 6 is the core of this text and addresses 28
therapeutic specific skills ranging from expectations,
enthusiasm and volume to more classically “clinical” skills
such as shaping, feedback and prompting. Many of these
therapeutic specific skills are illustrated in vignettes on the
accompanying DVD.
The second half of the book contains 5 chapters, each
of which outlines guided practice for therapy in the areas of
language, articulation, voice, resonance and fluency. Two
longer vignettes are also presented on the DVD.
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