Assessment of Communication Disorders in Adults: Resources and Protocols

Assessment of Communication Disorders in Children: Resources and Protocols, Fourth Edition offers a unique combination of scholarly information, invaluable  resources, and time-saving protocols on assessment of the full range of  communication disorders in children, including nonverbal or minimally  verbal children. 

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 texts 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:

• Includes  an extensive discussion of issues in using standardized tests along  with detailed information on psychometric principles and offers a  detailed discussion of alternative assessment approaches that minimize  the problems inherent to standardized tests
• Describes  a new, comprehensive, and integrated assessment approach that derives  its strengths from the traditional as well as several alternative  approaches
• Addresses  the multicultural issues in assessing communication disorders in  children and integrates culturally responsive assessment procedures into  the assessment protocols 
• Contains  two chapters for each disorder: one on resources that offers scholarly  and research background and one on resources that describe practical  procedures and protocols that save the clinician’s preparation time 
• Includes  access to a PluralPlus companion website which allows clinicians to  view, modify, and print the assessment protocols for their personal use