Assessment of Communication Disorders in Adults: Resources and Protocols - 3rd Edition

Assessment of Communication Disorders in Adults: Resources and Protocols, Third Edition offers a unique combination of scholarly information, invaluable resources, and time-saving protocols on assessment of communication disorders in adults.

Most resource books offer limited research and scholarly information, thus making them unsuitable as textbooks for academic courses on assessment and diagnosis. Similarly, most traditional textbooks do not include practical, easy-to-use, and time-saving resources and protocols that the practicing clinicians can readily use during assessment sessions. By combining the strengths of traditional textbooks with newer assessment resources and protocols, this one-of-a-kind book offers a single, comprehensive source that is suitable as a textbook and useful as a practical clinical resource.

This bestselling and trusted text:

• Covers the full range of communication disorders in adults, from aphasia to voice disorders
• Gives a comprehensive outline of basic assessment procedures
• Provides a set of protocols that are necessary to assess any communication disorder in adults
• Addresses the multicultural issues in assessing communication disorders in adults and offers an integrated assessment approach that includes the most desirable features of the traditional and several alternative approaches
• Contains two chapters for each disorder: one on resources that offers scholarly and research background on the disorder and one on resources that describes practical procedures and protocols that save preparation time and effort for the clinician
• Includes access to a PluralPlus companion website containing the assessment protocols that can be viewed, customized, and printed by instructors, students, and clinicians

New to the Third Edition:

• Lecture slides for instructors in the PluralPlus companion website
• Expanded emphasis and specific guidelines on making a correct differential diagnosis
• Latest research on the characteristics of communication disorders in adults
• Review of recent trends on diagnostic assessment with critical recommendations for students and clinicians
• Updated epidemiological research on communication disorders
• Revised text to offer more succinct information on assessment tools and diagnostic criteria
• The latest standardized and informal assessment instruments
• Student-friendly, step-by-step instructions on how to conduct initial interviews and share final assessment results with patients in each protocol chapter
• Updated web links for key assessment materials mentioned in the text

Review

"Students, licensed speech-language pathologists, and university professors can benefit from this book. It covers all of the assessment areas for adults with communication disorders. The writing is clear, concise, and organized in such a way that a clinician could easily use any one of the protocols to assess the needs of their clients. The authors are well-versed in the area of adult communication deficits. 
This book is divided into eight sections of more than 50 assessment protocols for adults with communication deficits. I appreciated the various assessment protocols. They are practical, functional, and easy to administer to clients with each type of disorder.
My favorite part of the book is the inclusion of dementia protocols. Quite often, dementia is left out of the mix because of the degenerative nature of the disease. Instead, the authors of this book included a complete section on dementia. They provided up-to-date research and protocols so not only will the clients benefit, but their loved ones will also receive the help they need along the dementia pathway."
—Lorelei J  Peirson, MA, Biola University, in Doody's Reviews (February 2021)