Hegde's PocketGuide to Assessment in Speech-Language Pathology

Now in its fifth edition, Hegde’s PocketGuide to Assessment in Speech-Language Pathology is a renowned resource, the first of its kind, and now a classic in communication sciences and disorders.

This fifth edition retains and enhances its unique feature of three books in one: a dictionary of assessment procedures, a textbook on assessment of every disorder of communication, and a comprehensive clinical guide useful in everyday practice. With this guide, students and professional clinicians have, at their fingertips, the encyclopedic knowledge of the entire range of assessment concepts, methods, and practical and easy-to-follow procedures.

The guide offers a quick as well as a detailed description of not only standard and standardized assessment procedures, but also task-oriented assessment outlines the clinician may follow in assessing every client with any kind of communication disorder. Many assessment outlines are self-sufficient in the manner of client-specific or criterion-referenced procedures that help evaluate assessment and treatment targets.  The information may be efficiently reviewed before assessment sessions, course examinations, and the Praxis test in speech-language pathology.

New to the Fifth Edition

• New information on teleassessment procedures, limitations, and possibilities relative to disorders of communication
• A new entry on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in assessment, its application, current limitations, and future possibilities
• Expanded description of Quality of Life (QoL) assessments for specific disorders as well as a separate entry
• New information on ethnographic interview of clients and family members
• Streamlined and enhanced information on social communication assessment 
• Updated new entry on assessment of communication disorders in ethnoculturally diverse individuals  
• Updated and reformatted entry on genetic and congenital disorders 

Key Features

• Current knowledge on assessment philosophies, approaches, and techniques
• Alphabetical entries and section tabs for ease of access
• Underlined terms that alert the reader for cross-referenced entries on related procedures
• Detailed diagnostic and differential diagnostic guidelines on disorders that tend to be confused
• Assessment guidelines and procedures for African American and bilingual individuals, including the Hispanic, Native American, and Asian American persons with communication disorders

Also Available

• Hegde’s PocketGuide to Treatment in Speech-Language Pathology, Fifth Edition

Major Entries

Preface to the Fifth Edition
How the PocketGuide Is Organized
How to Use This PocketGuide
About the Author
Acknowledgments

Abstract and Figurative Language
Agnosia
Agraphia
Alexia
Alternating Motion Rates (AMRs)
Alternative (Nonbiased) Assessment Approaches    
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD)     
Aphasia    
Aphasia: Specific Types    
Apraxia    
Apraxia of Speech (AOS) in Adults
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Assessment    
Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)    
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Bound Morphemes
Cerebral Palsy    
Childhood Apraxia of Speech 
Children With Complex Communication Needs    
Cleft Palate Speech
Cluttering
Communication Disorders in Ethnoculturally Diverse Individuals    
Dementia, Progressive    
Dementia, Reversible
Developmental Norms for Phonemes        
Dysarthrias in Adults    
Dysarthria: Specific Types        
Ethnographic Interview
Executive Dysfunction
Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS)
Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD)
Functional Communication Assessment 
Genetic and Congenital Syndromes Associated With Communication Disorders     
Hearing Loss 
HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorder (HAND)
Huntington’s Disease (HD)
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDDS)    
Joint Attention
Language Disorders in Children    
Language Disorders in Infants and Toddlers    
Language Disorders in Older Students and Adolescents    
Laryngectomy    
Lewy Body Dementia
Literacy and Literacy Skills
Maximum Phonation Duration (MPD)
Mean Length of Utterance (MLU)
Minimal Competency Core
Mutism
Narrative Skills
Neurogenic Stuttering
Orofacial Examination
Parkinson’s Disease (PD)
Phonological Awareness
Phonological Patterns
Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA), the Logopenic Variant 
Primary Progressive Apraxia of Speech (PPAOS)
Psychiatric Problems Associated With Communication Disorders    
Quality of Life Assessments
Reliability
Right Hemisphere Disorder (RHD)        
Social Communication Skills
Spasmodic Dysphonia
Speech Sound Disorders in Children
Standard/Common Assessment Procedures    
Stuttering    
Teleassessment
Transgender and Gender-Diverse Individuals
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Underextensions
Validity
Vascular Dementia (VaD)
Velopharyngeal Dysfunction (VD)
Voice Disorders
Wilson’s Disease
Word Fluency
Word-Retrieval Problems
XO Syndrome