8 – Family-Centered Practice and Counseling Strategies

Your Family-Centered Practice and Counseling Strategies

Purpose: This assignment will help you apply core principles of prevention, assessment, and intervention for communication and swallowing disorders. You will consider how anatomical, physiological, psychological, developmental, linguistic, and cultural factors influence clinical decision-making and shape effective, individualized care across diverse populations.

Instructions: Speech-language pathologists do more than treat communication disorders, they build trusting partnerships with families, especially when children face complex life situations. In this assignment, you will explore how family-centered care and trauma-informed practices come together in real-world clinical work.

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After watching the video of the SLP Mayas grandmother, reflect on how the SLP supports both the childs development and the caregivers confidence. In 450 words, respond to the prompts below by drawing from course concepts and the video to analyze, explain, and apply best practices in family engagement and generalization strategies.

Define key components of family-centered care and explain how they apply to Maya and her grandmothers situation.

Describe the SLPs role in addressing communication-based trauma or stress that may affect the family.

Formulate 2-3 generalization strategies that Mayas grandmother could use at home to support adherence to the treatment plan and promote carryover of communication skills.

Required Readings

Textbook: Hegde, M. (2024). Clinical Methods and Practicum in Speech-Language Pathology (7th ed.). Plural Publishing, Inc..

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Video:

Book: Luterman, D. M. (2022). Counseling persons with communication disorders and their families (6th ed.). Plural Publishing.

Rubric:

Defines key components of family-centered care and applies them to the case.

Explains the SLPs role in supporting families dealing with communication-based trauma or stress experienced by the family.

Offers 23 strategies that Mayas grandmother could implement at home. Strategies are clearly tied to treatment goals and promote carryover of communication skills.

The paper is 450 words, is formatted based on APA guidelines, and includes in-text citations with page number and a reference page (minimum 3 resources in addition to the video I will cite the transcribed grandma video in reference page use quotes from video (Grandma Video, 2026) – I will look for timestamp).