Copyright © 2008 Delmar. All rights reserved. Unit One Foundations of the Professions.

Copyright © 2008 Delmar. All rights reserved.

Unit One

Foundations

of the Professions


Chapter 1

Professionals

and the Professions


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SLP: Scope of Practice

1. Identification of communication and swallowing delays and disorders

2. Evaluation of communication and swallowing delays and disorders


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SLP: Scope of Practice

3. Treatment of communication and swallowing delays and disorders

4. Prevention of communication and swallowing delays and disorders


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Audiology

• Identification, evaluation, treatment, and prevention of hearing disorders

• Selection and evaluation of hearing aids

• Habilitation/rehabilitation of people with hearing impairments


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Personal Qualities of Effective Helpers

• Encouraging

• Emotionally stable

• Self-aware

• Patient

• Sensitive to others

• Empathic


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The Team Approach

• Speech pathologists and audiologists provide their services within the context of a TEAM


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Team Members

Nurse

Psychologist

OT

PT

Audiologist

SLP

Physicians

Teachers

Client/Family


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Profession Entry-level degree requirements

Speech Pathology Master’s degree – either an M.A. or M.S.

Audiology M.A. or M.S. through 2012

After 2012, doctoral degree – Au.D., Ed.D. or Ph.D.

Team Members


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SLP: Work Settings

• Schools

• Hospitals

• Residential health care

• Nonresidential health care

• Private practice

• Universities


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SLP: Job Outlook

• Projected increased need of 27 percent for speech pathologists between 2002 and 2012– According to the U.S. Department of Labor

Bureau of Labor Statistics


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Audiology: Work Settings

• Schools

• Hospitals

• Residential health care

• Nonresidential health care

• Private practice

• Industry

• Universities


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Audiology: Job Outlook

• Projected increased need of 29 percent for audiologists between 2002 and 2012– According to the U.S. Department of Labor

Bureau of Labor Statistics


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Professional Organizations

• ASHA – American Speech-Language-Hearing

Association– www.asha.org

• AAA – American Academy of Audiology– www.audiology.org


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Professional Organizations

• Each U.S. state will have it’s own professional organization

• Minnesota’s organization, MSHA, has a website www.msha.net

• Does your state have a professional organization? Find the website for your state organization.


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Student Organizations

• NSSLHA – National Student Speech Language

Hearing Association– www.nsslha.org

• Does your own university have a NSSLHA chapter?


Chapter 2

Foundations

of Communication


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Communication

• Verbal– Spoken language

• Nonverbal– Facial expressions– Eye contact– Body posture– Gestures


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Communication Modality Matrix

• Input– Auditory, Nonverbal, Reading

• Output– Verbal, Nonverbal, Written


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Speech

• Respiration

• Phonation

• Resonance

• Articulation


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Respiration

• Includes:– Lungs– Diaphragm– Chest muscles


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Phonation

• Includes vocal folds and structures within the larynx


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Resonance

• Modifies the sound produced by the larynx

• Includes:– Throat– Nose– Mouth


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Articulation

• Modifies the sounds that enter the oral cavity

• Includes:– Mandible– Lips– Tongue


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What Is Language?

• Socially shared code

• Represents concepts

• Uses arbitrary symbols

• Rule governedOwens, 2001


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Components of

Language

Phonology Syntax Morphology Semantics Pragmatics

What Is Language?


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Phonology

• Speech sounds

• Rules for using speech sounds in a language

• Phoneme – Distinctive sound in a language


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Morphology

• Study of the way words are formed

• Morpheme– Smallest unit of language that conveys

meaning


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Syntax

• Rules of word combinations to convey meaning


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Semantics

• Meaning of a language


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Pragmatics

• Use of language in social situations

• Verbal

• Nonverbal


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Nonverbal Pragmatics Skills

• Physical appearance

• Proxemics

• Kinesics

• Vocalics

• Haptics

• Chronemics

• Artifacts

Copyright © 2008 Delmar. All rights reserved. Unit One Foundations of the Professions.

Documents

language slide

team slide

meaning slide

larynx slide

empathic slide

written slide

mandible lips tongue

throat nose mouth slide