Main description:

This book comprises 50 tips for speech and language therapy practitioners who are new to, or less experienced in, working with adult voice disorders. It considers the full clinical pathway from assessment to management and on through to discharge.

Packed with easily accessible, practical hints about therapy and useful self-development activities for the reader, sections cover:

Reflecting on the normal voice
'Doing' therapy
Assessment
Management
Specific diagnoses
Professional voice users
Professional liaison
Learning from clients

The resource concludes with a handy appendix providing further reading and useful resources. Presenting diagnosis-specific and client group-specific tips alongside widely applicable guidance, this is a go-to book for accessible and practical support for voice newbies.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Your voice, the normal voice

Chapter 3: Doing voice therapy

Chapter 4: Assessment

Chapter 5: Management

Chapter 6: Working with specific diagnoses

Chapter 7: Working with professional voice users

Chapter 8: Professional liaison

Chapter 9: Learning from clients

Chapter 10: Appendices

Chapter 11: Useful resources

Index