Carryover Techniques

by Pam Marshalla

Learn how to approach carryover in speech therapy and arm yourself with heaps of games and activities to use with your clients! This book contains hundreds of ideas for the carryover process in articulation therapy. Carryover Techniques combines methods and procedures from modern research, traditional textbooks, Pam’s three decades of clinical experiences, and practical ideas contributed by hundreds of professional SLPs. Carryover is the term that commonly refers to a client’s ability to take a speech skill learned in the therapy room and to apply it broadly in all speaking situations. Many speech-language clients acquire this skill almost immediately and without effort, but there are those who do not. For these clients, special focus on carryover is needed. Carryover Techniques is research-based and practical. It contains therapy ideas to ponder and use during the process of carryover training. The text contains an integration of ideas from five (1) Published research reports, (2) Modern textbooks on articulation and phonology, (3) Historical textbooks on articulation therapy, (4) The author’s three decades of clinical experience, and (5) Games and activities contributed by hundreds of professional speech-language pathologists. 1. What is Carryover? 2. Studies of Generalization and Carryover 3. Managing the Carryover Process 4. Self-Monitoring and Carryover 5. Speech Production Activities for Carryover 6. The Role of Behavior Modification in Carryover 7. Conversational Speech in the Carryover Process 8. Personality, Emotion, and Attitude in Carryover 9. Games and Activities to Promote Carryover

170 pages, Perfect Paperback

First published January 4, 2011