Week One Flashcards
What is Treatment?
Speech and language intervention is a dynamic process which follows a systematic progression
Ultimate Goal of therapy
Facilitate a process for improved communication rather then isolated skills which enable to individual to know how and when to use skills on varied context
What are Principles
Main beliefs
Values
Philosophy
Ideology
Morality
Ethics
Doctrine
Speech Pathology Goals
Speech and Language abilities are acquired and used primarily for the purpose of communication and therefore should be taught in communicative context
Therapy should occur in realistic situations and provide opportunities to engage in meaningful communicative interactions.
Rehabilitation
Neurological - Programs designed for people with disease, trauma or disorders of the nervous system. This can often improve function, reduce symptoms and improve overall well-being.
Remediation
Treatment should encompass attempts at restoration of lost FUNCTION teaching compensatory strategies to minimise the cognitive impairments.
Compensation
Maximise or Optimise skills while learning new ways of doing things to minimise the problem - Work arounds for tasks, functions or processes; changing environment or approach to learn to adapt their lifestyle.
Prevention - Primary
Health Promotion, vaccinations, legislation and policy
Prevention - Secondary
Screening and Early Detection, Early Intervention
Prevention - Tertiary
Rehabilitation, Chronic disease management
Therapy Approaches
Prevention - Encouraging parents to read books to children
Eliminate - Behaviour that is unwanted, e.g., stuttering behaviours
Maintenance - Maintain current skills over period of time
Modifying / Changing a behaviour - Stuttered speech to non-stuttered speech
ICF: Social Model
Uses a biopsychosocial approach which combine a medical and social view of health. It is holistic and multidirectional.
ICF Assessment - Impairment View
The client has problems with speech or language, with processing or knowledge. What parts are not working?
Assumptions: optimal communication involves a combination of separable entities working together in an individual in predetermined ways.
ICF Assessment - Social View
Client-centered approach
Talk to your clients and their significant others to find out what they want/expect
Barriers/opportunities to short and long term goal?
ICF - Intervention - Impairment view
Therapy tasks focus on impairment (the problem)
Based on American behviourism approach to learning (modelling, practice, feedback, accuracy and transfer)
Lesson or drills
