TY - BOOK ID - 101253124 TI - Assessment of communication disorders in adults AU - Hegde, M. N AU - Freed, Donald B AU - Hegde, M N PY - 2022 SN - 9781635501957 1635501954 1635502632 9781635502633 PB - San Diego, CA DB - UniCat KW - Communicative disorders KW - Medical protocols KW - Diagnosis. KW - Prevention KW - Needs assessment. KW - Clinical algorithms KW - Clinical protocols KW - Patient care plans KW - Plans for patient care KW - Protocols in medicine KW - Clinical medicine KW - Medical records KW - Communication disorders (Medicine) KW - Disorders of communication KW - Nervous system KW - Diseases KW - Communication Disorders KW - Clinical Protocols KW - Needs Assessment KW - Assessment of Healthcare Needs KW - Determination of Healthcare Needs KW - Assessment of Health Care Needs KW - Determination of Health Care Needs KW - Educational Needs Assessment KW - Assessment, Educational Needs KW - Needs Assessment, Educational KW - Needs Assessment, Healthcare KW - Needs Assessments KW - Needs Assessments, Educational KW - Needs Assessments, Healthcare KW - Clinical Protocol KW - Clinical Research Protocol KW - Clinical Research Protocols KW - Protocol, Clinical KW - Protocol, Clinical Research KW - Protocols, Clinical Research KW - Protocols, Treatment KW - Research Protocol, Clinical KW - Protocols, Clinical KW - Research Protocols, Clinical KW - Treatment Protocols KW - Treatment Protocol KW - diagnosis UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101253124 AB - 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 New to the Third Edition: 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 ER -