WALC 10 Language and Cognition.pdf

Grades

Skills Ages

 use of visual-auditory-kinesthetic (VAK)  16 and up

coding strategies

 associations

 following directions

 recalling information  high school and up

Evidence-Based Practice

According to the Preferred Practice Patterns for the Profession of Speech-Language Pathology

(http://www.asha.org/members/deskrefer-journals/deskref/default, 2004), the Clinical Guidelines

of The Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists (www.rcslt.org/resources, 2005) and the

National Stroke Association (2006), the following therapy principles are supported:

 Intervention should address processing of varied types of information in various activities and

settings (e.g., ability to attend to, perceive, organize, and remember verbal and nonverbal

information including social cues, reasoning, and problem solving).

 Communication, both verbal and nonverbal, is a fundamental human need. Meeting this need

by facilitating and enhancing communication in any form can be vital to a patient’s well-being.

 Therapy should include tasks that focus on semantic processing, including semantic cueing

of spoken output, semantic judgments, categorization, and word-to-picture matching.

 Therapy may target the comprehension and production of complex, as well as simple,

sentence forms.

 Therapy should be conducted within natural communication environments.

 Rehabilitation is an important part of recovering from a stroke, and the goal is to regain

as much independence as possible.

This book incorporates the above principles and is also based on expert professional practice.

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10: Memory

Workbook of Activities for Language and Cognition

by Kathryn J. Tomlin