Test 1 vocab Flashcards
Artistry
- merging of the what and how of our profession
* bridge between research-based knowledge and practical application
Therapeutic Interaction
- Responsive fluid exchange between clinician and client
- Conversation
- Actions of the client and the clinician
Task Analysis
- Behavior concept - tasks are broken down into component parts in order to learn the parts separately, then put back together to demonstrate the target or task
- Break it down, learn it, put it back together
Hierarchy of treatment
Small bits at a time - like running a marathon, you have to start small and build up
Interpersonal Communication skills
- Interactions used to engage others
* empathy, politeness, non-verbal behavior
Therapeutic-specific skills
- taught and learned in relation to their applications in s-l therapy
- Enthusiasm, animation, seating arrangements, pacing, fluency, learning modalities, reinforcers
Therapeutic mindset
- mental disposition or attitude that predetermines the SLPs responses to and interpretations of situations that occur in therapy sessions
- Continuously assess stimuli, responses, all other interactions and be ready to act or respond accordingly
Function of the therapeutic mindset
The awareness of the options and the preparedness to select and implement the appropriate option for the situation
Anticipation
• consider, predict or anticipate what might happen and be ready
Evaluation
Be ready to assess what is happening
Interaction
- ready-to-respond mode
- questions that can note client’s expressive language, phonological skills, conversational pitch, intensity, fluency, etc.
Facilitator
SLP doesn’t simply correct the disorder, but serves in a role that helps the client improve communication skills
Interpersonal Demeanor
- Being an effective communicator
* Consider the personality and basic needs of the client before beginning therapy
5 keys of communicaiton
- Two-way and symbolic
- Real-life process
- receiver phenomenon
- Complex, transitory, continuous
- Contextually-based event
What constitutes a good communicator?
Engage in not only message sending and receiving, but in playing a game of constant interaction with the words as well as other things
Nonverbal behaviors
Eye contact, facial cues, proximity, body language
Affect
- The feeling, emotion, mood, and temperament associated with a thought
- interactions, relationships, and client progress
- Manipulate our affect to influence therapy
- Read affective behaviors associated with the client during tx in order to respond and make changes
Professionalism
- Appearance (dress, hairstyle, grooming)
- Communicate - answer calls and emails in a timely manner
- Metered confidence, professional speech and vocab
- Responsible, timely, polite, calm, poised, neat, available, accountable
Define Therapeutic Process
- Broad-based professional procedures, activities, and interactions with clients designed for the intervention of communication disorders
- “improve quality of life by reducing impairments of body, activity limitation, participation restrictions, environmental barriers of the individuals they serve”
3 things to increase confidence
- Gather information: age, gender, documented disorder, suspected disorder
- Interpret findings: explain normal, mild, moderate, severe disorders
- Develop conclusions and appropriate rationales: is therapy indicated? Why or why not?
ASHA Principle I
Individuals shall honor their responsibility to hold paramount the welfare of the persons they serve professionally
•All about the people
ASHA Principle II
Individuals shall honor their responsibility to achieve and maintain the highest level of professional competence and performance
• Professional competence
ASHA Principle III
Individuals shall honor their responsibility to the public by promoting public understanding of the profession, supporting development of services designed to fulfill the needs of the public, and by providing accurate information in all communications involving any aspect of the professions, including dissemination of research findings in scholarly activities, and the promotion, marketing, and advertising of products and services.
•Public understanding
ASHA Principle IV
Individuals shall honor their responsibilities to the profession and their relationships with colleagues, students, and members of other professions and disciplines
Rules of ASHA I
- Shall provide services competently
- shall use every resource, including referral
- no discrimination
- don’t discontinue service without reasonable notice
Rules of ASHA II
- engage in the aspects that are within the scope of practice
- Engage in lifelong learning
Rules of ASHA III
- don’t misrepresent credentials, education, training, experience
- Don’t participate in conflict of interest activities
- refer on basis of referral, not for personal gain
- don’t misrepresent research
- be honest with the public in all aspects
Rules of ASHA IV
- Uphold dignity and autonomy of the profession, maintain harmonious relationships
- Don’t engage in dishonesty, fraud, deceit
- Don’t sleep with clients
- Give credit where its due
- Comply with code of ethics and tell on people when they don’t
Progress of IDEA
EHA (75) –> Amended in 86 —> Amended in 90 and became IDEA –> Amended in 97 –> Amended in 2004 —> Additional funding in 2009
EHA
- 1975
- First federal law mandating FAPE
- Parents don’t pay for speech therapy
- Appropriate could mean sped day class
EHA 1986 Amendment
Include children birth to 5