An Advanced Review of Speech-Language Pathology: Preparation for Nespa and Comprehensive Examination [Hardcover]

Celeste Roseberry-Mckibbin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1999

An Advanced Review of Speech-Language Pathology, Second Edition is tailor made for speech-language pathology students preparing to take departmental comprehensive examinations as well as the Praxis Examination in Speech-Language Pathology. In addition, this inclusive book is a terrific teaching tool for university faculty---offering preview outlines, brief introductions, and summaries. Each chapter concludes with test questions in essay and multiple-choice formats. Practitioners will find this book to be an outstanding reference text.

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 831 pages
• Publisher: Pro-Ed; Har/Cas edition (January 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0890798214
• ISBN-13: 978-0890798218
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.6 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #885,296 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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57 of 59 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Speech PAthology Review Materials, June 7, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: An Advanced Review of Speech-Language Pathology: Preparation for Nespa and Comprehensive Examination (Hardcover)

This review text is an excellent resource for speech-pathology students. It provides a comprehensive review for the NESPA and comps. This book is even broad enough to include sections devoted to anatomy, physiology, neuro, research, audiology, and others. This book would be very valuable as you begin practice because it has every subject related to SLP's. Beyond the vast amount of subjects, this text provides chapter outlines, topic intros, summaries, and it highlights the most important areas. There are also test questions at the end of each chapter to help prepare for the NESPA. It's impossible to go through every bit of notes you took in graduate school! This text will help you review and help you identify weak areas. It is definetely a must for your collection.

37 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It's ok but not really worth the money, June 19, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: An Advanced Review of Speech-Language Pathology: Preparation for Nespa and Comprehensive Examination (Hardcover)

This book serves as a guide but I found it a little too basic. I find it's ok to have when studying but not worth the money. It fills over with information in bullet format - not really great to memorize and the information I found not to be really relevant. I recommend to go to the AHSA website and print out the content index of the praxis (for SLPs) exam. Take the index as a study guide and go to your books and notes from the lectures you had or go to the university library. I didn't use this book even though it was available to me and I passed the test the first time.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great Reference Book, June 16, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: An Advanced Review of Speech-Language Pathology: Preparation for Nespa and Comprehensive Examination (Hardcover)

I purchased this book my last semester of grad school. I found it to be a great book for refererence and resource. I wish I had had this book at the beginning and throughout the speech program. This book gives good information regarding theories, anatomy,neurology, speech and language. Other areas; for example special topics were more general (this area is a must for NESPA prep) It was also a plus to have to refresh and solidify many of the courses I had previously taken. As far as a preparation for the NESPA exam, I didn't feel it competely corrolated to what was actually tested on the exam. It did not assist higher order thinking skills or serious techniques needed to actuallly unravel the complexity of this exam. Lengthy case studies and/or hypothetical scenarios were not addressed, but then again I used other resources for NESPA preparation, and they too, never really prepared me for what was really on this exam. Still, it is a great book for basic reference and review for coursework. Maybe someone will publish a NESPA prep book that really depicts the ambiguity and lengthy "narrative-like questions" the NESPA requires one to answer.