Dr. Goldberg has presented workshops on clinical skills to enthusiastic audiences throughout the United States and Central Americal. Clinical Skills For Speech-Language Pathologists: Practical Applications, an outgrowth of those workshops, provides a research basis and practical suggestions for developing and using clinical skills that are appropriate to all clients (core) as well as clients from various cultural backgrounds (culturally-specific). TEXTBOOK
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A brilliant approach:
Goldberg has a brilliant approach to speech-language pathology: since there is so little (and I mean very little) clinical research to support what we speech therapists do, why not utilize research from other fields that is very closely related to the clinical skills performed in speech therapy? This will reveal to us what works and what does not. This book is one of the most important which I have purchased. Goldberg's approach is so obvious once you read it-so why hasn't anyone else thought of this... more info
The most useful speech pathology book I've purchased:
Clinical methods has been a "gray" area for most graduating master's students in speech-language pathology. It is often taught via the "memorize and regurgitate" method. Dr. Goldberg, however, gives a readable, practical guideline that is useful for training new clinicians, as well as for helping practicing clinician's answer the "why's" of what they are doing, an area that has desperately needed to be addressed in our profession. The content is applicable to all clinical settings, and draws heavily on... more info
