Caraway has worked in a rehabilitation hospital for several years‚ and has recently changed her career path as a SLP. She has transitioned from rehab to home‚ long term care (dementia)‚ behavioral psych to outpatient and inpatient services within the whole spectrum of speech‚ including swallow studies. Her biggest challenge now is getting back into the swing of
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management for feeding and swallowing is vital to ensure that these infants are receiving the necessary nutrients to grow and be healthy. The role of the speech language pathologist (SLP) is to facilitate the process of feeding for infants with a cleft lip and/or palate and for their families and/or caregivers. SLPs implement evidence-based practice by utilizing the most efficient products and techniques‚ and by providing nutritional advice to maximize
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The lesions and etiologies of Apraxia of speech and ataxic dysarthria provide a foundation in understanding the correlating similarities and differences composed within the nature and details of these two disorders. Apraxia presents a dysfunction in the integration of coordinated motor plans that facilitate the muscles used in speech production. Motor planning dysfunction is typically caused by lesions within the left hemisphere of the brain‚ at‚ in‚ or‚ around broca’s area‚ which furthermore affects
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The service learning project (SLP) of nurse residency programs (NRP) conducted for Fitzgerald Mercy Hospital (FMH) presented opportunities for learning‚ growth‚ and teamwork for the members of group four. The expectation of our group was to search for relevant data in the form of research articles which offered strong evidence describing the benefits the nursing staff of FMH would gain in the event of their implementation of an NRP for their new to practice nurses. The findings of the research were
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Module 1 Assignment 1 July 15‚ 2009 Topic: Performance Management Overview Welcome to Module 1 of the Strategic Leadership Program (SLP)! If you have not already done so‚ read the Program Manual located in the Reference Material Section of the SLP home page. It provides you with important introductory information about the SLP. Module 1 focuses on performance management‚ performance measurement‚ risk management and governance‚ and financial reporting. Many of these task-related functions assist
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Background and diagnosis Working as a middle school English teacher‚ Mr. Wright always had a niche for socializing with peers‚ engaging in literature‚ and even participating in outdoor activities such as hiking and fishing. After experiencing a series of medical issues including headaches‚ Mr. Wright eventually became a patient of an invasive brain surgery. Within his surgery he acquired the condition known as Broca’s aphasia due to a hemorrhagic stroke. Mr. Wright’s Broca’s aphasia affected his
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like to learn about the different AAC systems available to individuals and what exactly SLPs do when working with these individuals. A second area of intervention I would like to learn about is focused on individuals with ASD. Being that most individuals with ASD have difficulties using gestures‚ facial expressions‚ may have inappropriate turn-taking and have delayed speech‚ I would like to learn what skills SLPs focus on to get ASD individuals to communicate with others. Lastly‚ I would like to learn
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Introduction To the Disorder Asperger’s syndrome (AS)‚ originally described by Hans Asperger in 1944 (Attwood‚ 2007‚ p. 23)‚ was historically considered a distinct high-functioning subtype of autism. It is now considered simply an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) following a change to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 2013 (Kite‚ Gullifer‚ & Tyson‚ 2013). “Autism spectrum disorders are severe disorders of development that can affect social interaction‚ communication
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of class to come to in order to receive therapy. During the hour that I observed the speech language pathologist‚ or SLP‚ saw a total of 5 kids; she had three kids in the first group and two kids in the second. It is a rather small school‚ so Mrs. Ferris‚ the SLP‚ is the only speech language pathologist working in that particular elementary school. In group therapy sessions‚ the SLP cannot have anymore than three students in a group so that all the students can get individualized attention. Before
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What is communication? Interactive nature: it is a give and take process‚ conveying and receiving thoughts and ideas (exchange of verbal and nonverbal between speaker and listener) Sociolinguistics: cultural identity‚ setting‚ participants‚ context‚ social‚ and environmental factors (study of social language) Language: “A socially shared code or conventional system for representing concepts through the use of arbitrary symbols and a rule governed combination of those symbols” ----Language (ability
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