SPEECH THERAPY WORKBOOK FOR ADULTS: Portuguese & English- TPT Version
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Description
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The Speech Therapy Workbook for Adults: Bilingual Portuguese & English is a published book sold on Amazon. This is the TPT version at a more affordable price. All pages are included.
DESCRIPTION
Ages 16+
This workbook comes in color and contains cognitive and communication exercises that can be used to provide therapy and assessment. Worksheets can be presented in written form or verbally to guide therapy in either/or English and Portuguese. Numerous screening forms are provided to assess memory, attention, communication, social, adaptive, and gross motor skills. Handouts are provided with wording that is understandable and translatable in both English and Spanish for patients with aphasia, dysarthria, head and neck cancer, dysphagia, and dementia.
WHO WOULD BENEFIT FROM THIS WORKBOOK?
This workbook can be used by people with traumatic brain injury, cognitive deficits, and/or communication impairments, such as aphasia, dementia, dysarthria, cancer, and more.
WHAT GOALS ARE WORKED ON DURING THIS ACTIVITY?
The following objectives are among many that can be targeted during therapy while using this resource:
· improve skills of daily living
· answer “wh” questions about photographs
· answer “wh” questions from written texts
· recall labels of common objects
· state feelings and emotions
· state functions and attributes
· make inferences
· categorize and make lists
· make word associations
· complete phrases
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. Cristina Saldaña, CCC-SLP has worked for over 20 years in numerous settings, such as hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, and the public-school systems of New York, Connecticut, Georgia, and Mexico. She is the author of several books in the field and the owner of Bilingual Resources.
Dr. Saldaña’s goal is to educate and motivate professionals in choosing appropriate materials for their bilingual clients. She stresses that “language should never be a barrier," or "o idioma nunca deve ser uma barreira.” Her workbooks, screening tools, and therapy materials are created for clients to practice the same skills at home with their caretakers as it is done in therapy.
View her story at https://bilingualresourcesforteachers.blogspot.com/2022/01/my-journey-as-bilingual-speech-language.html
