A Guide to School Services in Speech-Language Pathology, Fifth Edition, 5th Edition

A Guide to School Services in Speech-Language Pathology, Fifth Edition serves as a must read for school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs), college instructors, and students-in-training. The text begins by providing a brief history of school-based SLP services. The foundations of school services are highlighted, including the legal mandates set forth in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA); Every Student Succeeds Act, Americans with Disabilities Act; and landmark court cases that have influenced school services – such as the 2023 Midthun-Hensen & Hensen v. GHC court ruling regarding evidence-based practices. Pedagogical features include related vocabulary at the beginning of each chapter to promote equity in comprehension, end of chapter summaries with guiding questions to reinforce important information, facilitate class discussions, and enhance understanding, concrete, real-life success stories from public school SLPs, and links to useful strategies, materials, and resources.

This comprehensive textbook addresses issues paramount to school-based SLPs:

Options to expand and diversify service delivery models
Step-by-step instructions to implement a workload analysis
Examples of IEP goals that support flexible scheduling and workload solutions
Tables that describe evidence-based practices and provide links to the supportive research
Template for writing IEP goals that align with IDEA mandates
Methods for assessing multilingual language learners including dynamic, authentic, and criterion-referenced tools
Guidance for implementing proactive behavior management, conflict resolution, professional collaboration, conferencing and counseling and cultural competencies
Evidence bases that link language, literacy, and the achievement of school standards

New to the Fifth Edition

New content regarding COVID-19 impacts and the expansion of telepractice
Current references throughout that reflect state-of-the-art research
Updated evidence-based content for practices in the areas of:

articulation and phonology

language and literacy

voice, feeding, and swallowing

augmentative and alternative communication

social and cognitive aspects of communication

hearing habilitation

general clinical strategies
Modernized use of pronouns and terms that reflect our diverse society
Scenarios that promote reflection of neurodiverse practices
Digital resources including contemporary apps and video modeling

PluralPlus Online Ancillary Materials

For Instructors:PowerPoint slides and test bank

For Students: Downloadable forms, checklists, and user-friendly tools