MUSC Acute Care Speech Practicum

Specific information regarding the Communication Sciences and Disorders' Acute Care Speech Language Pathology practicum led by Carley Evans MS CCC SLP. Carley is a medical speech pathologist at the Evelyn Trammell Institute for Voice and Swallowing of the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. If you are new to this practicum, start with the oldest post listed in Archive.

Monday, August 27, 2007

Tests for Review and Readings to Complete

Hi CSD Student,

Welcome to your CMH practicum in acute care and transitional care. The following is information regarding tests I often administer and readings I expect you to complete during your time with me.

Please be prepared to give, score, and interpret (to the best of your present abilities, of course):

  • The Cognistat
  • The Ross Information Processing Assessment - 2nd Edition and Geriatric Edition
  • The short form of the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination - 3rd Edition
  • The Frenchay Dysarthria Assessment
  • The Scales of Cognitive Abilities for TBI
  • The Cognitive Linguistic Quick Test
  • story retelling from the Arizona Battery for Communication Disorders of Dementia
  • symbolic relations from the Detroit Test of Learning Aptitude/Adults

Please choose at least 3 of the following to read:

"Chapter 2: Classification of the Aphasias," in APHASIA AND ITS THERAPY by Anna Basso, Oxford University Press, 2003.

"Functional Treatment Approaches to Memory Impairment Following Brain Injury," by Judith Hutchinson, PhD and Thomas P. Marquardt, PhD in TOPICS IN LANGUAGE DISORDERS V18 NO 1 NOVEMBER 1997.

"Remediation Challenges in Treating Dysphagia Post Head/Neck Cancer," by Barbara Sonies in CLINICS IN COMMUNICATION DISORDERS V3 NO 4 FALL 1993.

Chapter One from page 24 Patient Interview to end of chapter: "Medical Record Review and Patient Interview" in Murray's book MANUAL OF DYSPHAGIA ASSESSMENT IN ADULTS.

The chapter "Treating Naming" in Rosenbeck, LaPointe, and Wertz's book APHASIA: A CLINICAL APPROACH.

The article "Swallowing after Lateral Medullary Syndrome Plus" by Robbins and Levine in CLINICS IN COMMUNICATION DISORDERS V3 NO 4 FALL 1993.

The article "Evaluation and Treatment planning for the head-injured patient with oral intake disorders" by Jeri A. Logemann in THE JOURNAL OF HEAD TRAUMA REHABILITATION, V 4, No 4 December 1989.

The article "Optimal Patterns of Care in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease" by Bonnie Martin-Harris in SEMINARS IN SPEECH AND LANGUAGE: DYSPHAGIA: OPTIMAL PATTERNS OF CARE, V 21, No 4, 2000.

The article "Treatment of Swallowing Disorder: Method of Jeri A. Logemann" in CURRENT THERAPY OF COMMUNICATION DISORDERS: PHONATORY-ARTICULATORY DISORDERS, ed. Perkins, 1983.

Chapter 11 in Chapey, Leora's book: APHASIA: REHABILITATION, call no: WL 340.5 L287 1994. Thanks.


When you read these, please take notes and turn a copy in to me so that we can discuss. This is expected!


Thanks! Val

Posted by Carley at 5:10 PM
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