
Treatment Companion: A Speech-Language Pathologist's Intervention Guide for Students With Developmental Delays and Disorders
First Edition
Inna Itskovich, Megan Meyer, Miriam Shaffer
Details: 274 pages, B&W, Softcover, 8.5 " x 11"
ISBN13: 978-1-63550-481-1
© 2023 | Available
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Whether you’re working with a new student and don’t know where to begin, or you have a long-term client and you’re feeling stuck, Treatment Companion: A Speech-Language Pathologist’s Intervention Guide for Students With Developmental Delays and Disorders provides ideas and strategies for a variety of common language goals. Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) often face the challenge of adapting interventions to meet the needs of students with severe or complex disorders and diagnoses. As seasoned clinicians, the authors fuse their real-world experience with up-to-date research to create a robust road map for customizing SLP intervention strategies.
User friendly and straightforward, the Treatment Companion offers a conversational approach to identifying options and goals that meet students where they are, whether they are visual or kinesthetic learners, oral speakers or AAC users, engaged or distracted, from birth to age 21. With easy-to-navigate headings, examples, and visuals, this guide can be consulted on an as-needed basis. The suggestions and strategies are accessible and innovative, often not requiring any specialized supplies to implement.
The Treatment Companion offers both novice and experienced clinicians a valuable tool to support their clients in achieving the highest level of communication possible.
Key Features:
- Language goals are divided into four levels that are aligned with developmental milestones
- Detailed figures feature examples of intervention resources and strategies (color versions provided on the companion website)
- Steps Toward Mastery outlines a progression for guiding students to mastery of a goal, from introduction of a skill to achieving independence and generalizing the skill
- Activities in Treatment offers suggestions for working on skills through specific therapy activities
- Demystifying Augmentative and Alternative Communication appendix provides an approachable overview and example scenarios for those new to AAC
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Reviewers
I. Introduction: How to Use the Treatment Companion
Before You Begin
Where to Begin/Choosing Goals
Aligning to the Common Core State Standards
Targeting Goals
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
References
II. What You Need to Know
General Guidelines
Meeting a Student for the First Time
Developmental Hierarchy
Assessment
Progress Monitoring
Prompt Hierarchy
Modeling Appropriate Communication
Student Factors Affecting Treatment
Echolalia
Perceived Negative Behavior
Deaf/Hard of Hearing (DHH)
Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
Physical Disabilities
Bilingualism and Multiculturalism
Helpful Tips
Building Relationships With School Staff and Parents
Setting Yourself Up: Organization
Suggestions of Supplies, Books, Toys, and Games
References
III. Level I
Speech, Manual Signs, or Aided AAC?
Speech
Unaided AAC
Aided AAC
Note About the Goals in Level I
Attention to Modeling
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
Exploring
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
Five-Word Vocabulary
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
10-Word Vocabulary
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
20-Word Vocabulary
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
50-Word Vocabulary
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
References
IV. Level II
Two-Word Utterances
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
Actions
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
Three-Word Utterances
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
Expanding Vocabulary
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
Sentences in Present Tense
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
Concrete Simple Wh- Questions
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
Conceptual Simple Wh- Questions
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
References
V. Level III
Possessive ’s
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
Prepositions
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
Pronouns
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
Past Tense Verbs
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
Attributes
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
Grammatical Sentences
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
Yes and No Questions
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
Short Narrative
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
Simple Problem Solving
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
References
VI. Level IV
Introduction to Complex Wh- Questions
Complex Wh- Questions: Why Questions
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
Complex Wh- Questions: When Questions
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
Complex Wh- Questions: How Questions
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
Introduction to Detailed Narrative
Detailed Narrative: Story Grammar Markers
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
Detailed Narrative: Narrative Recall and Retell
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
Detailed Narrative: Sequencing
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
Introduction to Verbal Analogies
Verbal Analogies: Categories
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
Verbal Analogies: Object Function
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
Verbal Analogies: Synonyms and Antonyms
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
Verbal Analogies: Associations
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
Introduction to Figurative Language
Figurative Language: Idioms
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
Figurative Language: Multiple Meaning Words
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
Compound and Complex Sentences
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
Identifying the Problem
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
Identifying the Cause/Making Inferences
Steps Toward Mastery
Activities in Treatment
References
Appendix: Demystifying Augmentative and Alternative Communication
What You Need to Know About AAC
The Right to Communicate
What Does AAC Include?
Dispelling Common Myths About AAC
Communicative Competence
Comprehensive Assessment Leads to Comprehensive Intervention
Choosing Words to Target
Fostering Collaboration
Training
Creating a Culture of AAC
References
Index
Purchase of Treatment Companion: A Speech-Language Pathologist’s Intervention Guide for Students With Developmental Delays and Disorders comes with access to supplementary resources on a PluralPlus companion website.
The companion website is located at:
https://www.pluralpublishing.com/publication/tcslpig
STUDENTS:
The student resources include color versions of the figures presented in the text.
To access the student resources, you must register on the companion website and log in using the access code located in the front of your textbook.
*Note for students: If you have purchased this textbook used or have rented it, your access code will not work if it was already redeemed by the original buyer of the book. Plural Publishing does not offer replacement access codes for used or rented textbooks.

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