Ch. 1 Flashcards
What is the definition of cognition?
The process of knowing
What areas are included in cognition?
- Attention
- Memory
- Problem Solving
What is the definition of rehabilitation?
To restore or bring to a condition of health, or useful and constructive activity
What are the roles of SLP in cognitive communication disorders?
-Identification
• Individuals at risk for or presenting with cognitive communication disorders
What are the roles of SLP in cognitive communication disorders?
-Assessment
- Select and implement clinically, culturally, and linguistically appropriate approaches to assessment and diagnosis.
- Identify contextual factors that contribute to or can be used to ameliorate the cognitive communication disorder.
What are the roles of SLP in cognitive communication disorders?
-Intervention
• Selection and implementation of clinically, culturally, and linguistically appropriate and evidence based approaches to intervention.
What are the roles of SLP in cognitive communication disorders?
-Counseling
• Providing culturally and linguistically appropriate counseling for individuals and their significant others about cognitive communication disorders and their impact.
What are the roles of SLP in cognitive communication disorders?
-Collaboration
• Family, school teachers, employers
What are the roles of SLP in cognitive communication disorders?
-Case Management
- Working as a team member or as a team leader.
* Call the meeting, monitoring, and insuring the appropriate and timely delivery of a comprehensive management plan.
What are the roles of SLP in cognitive communication disorders?
-Education
- Refers to your own development as an SLP, CEU’s
* Educating others
What are the roles of SLP in cognitive communication disorders?
-Prevention
- Public education
* Preventive factors, Heel walk on Tulsa Campus
What are the roles of SLP in cognitive communication disorders?
-Advocacy
• Advocate for services for individuals with these disorders
What are the roles of SLP in cognitive communication disorders?
-Research
- Advance our knowledge based on what we are seeing, and their treatment
- Looking for new ways to treat disorders and new ways to approach things.
Criteria for Empirically Validated Treatment: What are some well established treatments?
i. At least two good between-group design experiments, demonstrating efficacy in one or more of the following ways:
A. Superior (statistically significant differences) to pill or psychological placebo or to another treatment.
B. Equivalent to an already established treatment in experiments with adequate sample sizes.
Or
II. A large series of single-case design experiments (n> 9) demonstrating efficacy. These experiments must have:
A. Used good experimental designs and
B. Compared the intervention to another treatment as in IA.
Further criteria for both I and II:
I. Experiments must be conducted with treatment manuals or detailed descriptions.
II. Characteristics of the client samples must be clearly specified.
III. Effects must have been demonstrated by at least two different investigators or investigating terms.
Criteria for Empirically Validated Treatment: What are probably efficacious treatment criteria?
Probably efficacious treatments
I. Two experiments showing the treatment is superior (statistically significant so) to a waiting-list control group.
Or
II. One or more experiments meeting the Well-Established Treatment criteria IA or IB, III, and IV, but not V.
Or
III. A small, series of single-case design experiments (n>3) otherwise meeting the Well-established Treatment criteria.