Person-Centered Approach for Assessment of Adult Neurogenic Disorders

1. Person-Centered Care and Best Practices in Assessment

This chapter will compare and contrast the best practice recommendations for assessment with a traditional medical model approach (use of standardized tests alone).

2. Key Components of Nonstandardized Assessment

This chapter will describe and use case examples for three key components of a person-centered, nonstandardized assessment.

3. Case Example

This chapter is a case study with a video example of person-centered assessment. This case example demonstrates where a nonstandardized assessment fits in the overall clinical flow.

4. How Do Standardized Test Scores Fit In?

This chapter will review philosophy and goals behind choosing standardized testing, including speaker recommendations for tests that include more than impairment level results. Insurance coverage will also be addressed.

5. Functional Goal-Setting

This chapter will describe three frameworks that can be used to create functional, measurable goals, in contrast to nonrelevant medical goals. In order to write successful goals that include person-centered outcomes, SLPs may need to broaden how or what they measure. Workbook activities or generic goals can be tempting because they are easy to quantify. This section will make a case for consideration of multiple factors that can be measured or quantified to show improvement during the course of therapy, using a functional context and evidence-based frameworks. It will also include goal examples for neurological disorders, by setting.