SLHS 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Speech Disfluency, Therapeutic Relationship, Differential Diagnosis
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Individuals shall engage in only those aspects of the professions that are within the scope of their competence, considering their level of education, training, and experience (asha principle of ethics iib) Objectives of the evaluation: to formulate diagnostic impressions, to formulate recommendations, to establish a therapeutic relationship with the client and parents of significant others. Describe &/ or measure disfluency behaviors & their variability. Describe &/or measure reactions (a, b, c) & their variability. Hypothesize re. prognosis, based on history & causal factors. Establish rapport with client and caregivers/others involved. Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. albert einstein. A ten point self-rating scale can be used for measurement of any stuttering symptom (disfluency or reaction) The frequency of any type of symptom. The severity of any type of symptom. On a scale of one to ten, 1 representing, extremely mild; and 10 representing,