Making a Difference for America's Children: Speech Language Pathologists in Public Schools

by Judy K. Montgomery and Barbara J. Moore-Brown

Book Overview

Two nationally known experts, Drs. Judy Montgomery and Barbara Moore, provide a framework for the expanded working situations of SLPs and help create a vision of the possibilities for children and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1888222522
• ISBN13: 9781888222524
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Thinking Publications
• Length: 466 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.

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ASHA Review

Making a Difference for America's Children: Speech-Language Pathologists in Public Schools is a comprehensive text dealing with the role of speech-language pathologists in the public school setting. The readings contained in the 10 chapters of this text deal with a wide variety of practical and professional issues that impact public school SLPs. This resource reviews the history of the role of SLPs in public schools, presents a discussion of school reform issues, and examines changes in federal legislation and regulations in special education, including how SLPs function as part of a school team in the areas of prevention, assessment, and intervention. Many readings in this voluminous text discuss issues surrounding the educational system, such as trends of speech-language services, legislative history of special education, issues relating to IDEA, standards-based educational reform, applications and relevance of least restrictive environment for speech-language services, and IEP process and procedures. Other chapters provide information that relates specifically to the role of public school SLPs such as pre-referral, referral and assessment, service delivery options, annual goals and benchmarks, meeting school standards, providing access to the curriculum, eligibility and exit criteria, functional outcomes, SLPs role in pre-literacy/literacy development, cultural/linguistic diversity, and issues surrounding certification and licensing. The information presented in this text is extremely well-organized. A concise synopsis of the contents precedes each chapter, and review/discussion questions follow each chapter with applications for a university or training program. A comprehensive glossary and numerous appendices accompany this book, including ASHA position statements in reading, writing, caseload size, and collaborative consultation. Also included are ASHA's Code of Ethics, competencies required by school-based SLPs, and examples of eligibility criteria from various states. Information from the latest ASHA school survey is also included, as well as guidelines on roles and responsibilities of school-based SLPs and extracts from ASHA's technical assistance documents on developing educationally relevant IEPs. There are also numerous helpful and practical tables and charts throughout the text. This ambitious and successful undertaking is one of the few resources written by public school SLPs about the role of school-based SLPs. The authors have compiled a wide variety of important and current information that has never previously been printed in one resource. This resource would be an excellent textbook for a course in speech-language pathology and could be extremely valuable for students who are considering a career as an SLP in the public schools. This text fills a void in that it contains a vast amount of information that has never been previously taught in training programs. The wealth of practical information contained in this text will help