Developing and implementing an aural rehabilitation plan and counseling
This is developed and implemented by Speech-Language Pathologists within an Aural Rehabilitation plan for infants or toddlers
What is an IFSP?
The first step that Speech-Language pathologists are involved in to combat the effects of hearing loss and language
What is early intervention?
The means by which the individual and their communication partners receive and express language through more than one modality
What is multimodal communication?
Speech-Language Pathologists can only do this as a form of hearing assessments on infants, toddlers, school-age children, and adults
What is hearing screening?
A Speech-Language Pathologist can use this in order to assess for the preferred communication mode of an adult
What are caregiver interviews and patient self reports?
This Speech-Language Pathology intervention approach focuses on providing more than one sensory modality for speech and language therapy, typically audition and vision
What is multisensory?
The most straightforward assessment procedure administered by Speech-Language Pathologists for individuals with hearing loss
What is interviewing?
These are the most appropriate hearing screenings for a school-age child that a Speech-Language Pathologist can administer
What are OAE and Pure Tone Audiometry?
This is defined as a system which uses phonemically based hand gestures in order to supplement speechreading
What is cued speech?
Someone’s belief that he or she can succeed in performing a task, independent of external odds…
What is self-efficacy?
The most widely used communication method by Speech-Language Pathologists in educational settings for individuals who are deaf
What is total communication?
This promotes efficacy in Speech-Language Pathology treatment by ensuring that parents are included in developing facilitative patterns of communication with deaf infants
What is family-focused intervention?
Speech-Language pathologists are not explicitly taught to be professional counselors, this action can be done by these professionals in order to ensure patient well being during the process of counseling
What is simultaneously addressing content and emotion?
This Speech-Language Pathology intervention technique promotes language development by focusing on discriminating between words, listening to well informed spoken language, and through focusing on the residual hearing of the individual, amplified as best as possible
What is auditory-verbal approach?
Listening in a way that lets patients know they are being heard without being judged
What is generous listening?
A Speech-Language Pathology therapy approach that allows individuals to learn in everyday meaningful communication environments
What is naturalistic language therapy?
“Explore a richer or thicker narrative of one’s life” is this step of Narrative therapy which is commonly provided to adolescents and adults by Speech-Language Pathologists
What is second?
These are the three components Speech-Language Pathologists should focus on during speech intervention with children with hearing loss
What are overall intelligibility, segmental production, and suprasegmental production?
This appears to be a primary mediator of outcome regardless of the communication option used
What is family involvement?
What refers to processing speech with visual information such as movement of articulators, gestures, and facial cues
What is speechreading?