This collection is the first of its kind to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the caseloads and clinical practice of speech-language pathologists.
The volume synthesises existing data on the wide-ranging effects of COVID-19 on the communication, swallowing, and language skills of individuals with COVID infection. Featuring perspectives of scholars and practitioners from around the globe, the book examines the ways in which clinicians have had to modify their working practices to prioritise patient and clinician safety, including the significant increase in the use of telepractice during the pandemic. The volume also reflects on changes in training and education which have seen educators in the field redesign their clinical practicum in order to best prepare students for professional practice in an age of COVID-19 and beyond, as the field continues to grapple with the long-term effects of the pandemic.
Offering a holistic treatment of the impact of COVID-19 on the work of speech-language pathologists, this book will be of interest to students, researchers, and clinicians working in the discipline.
Chapters 5, 6, 10, and 13 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com
Bijoyaa Mohapatra1 and Ranjini Mohan2
1Louisiana State University, USA
2Texas State University, USA
Chapter 2: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children’s speech and language development
Sara A. Charney,1 Stephen M. Camarata,2 and Alexander Chern 3,4
1Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
2Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
3Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, NewYork–Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
4Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, NewYork–Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
Chapter 3: Telepractice in child speech-language pathology during COVID-19
Megan Overby
Duquesne University, USA
Chapter 4: Neurolinguistic deficits and other cognitive disorders in adults with severe COVID-19 infection
Konstantinos Priftis
University of Padua, Italy
Chapter 5: Cognitive-linguistic difficulties in adults with Long COVID
Louise Cummings
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China
Chapter 6: Communication-related quality of life in adults with Long COVID
Louise Cummings
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China
Chapter 7: Management of voice disorders in COVID-19
Emerald J. Doll
University of Wisconsin Health and Clinics, USA
Chapter 8: Clinical presentation of patients with COVID-19 in critical care following intubation and tracheostomy
Sarah Wallace
Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Chapter 9: Swallowing difficulties in adults after COVID-19
Anna Miles
University of Auckland, New Zealand
Chapter 10: Telepractice in adult speech-language pathology during COVID-19
Elizabeth C. Ward and Ashley E. Cameron
The University of Queensland, Australia
Chapter 11: Psychological effects of COVID-19 on adults with aphasia and their caregivers: six-month consequences of COVID-19 lockdowns in Hong Kong
Anthony Pak-Hin Kong,1 Dustin Kai-Yan Lau2 and Vivian Nga-Ying Chai2
1The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
2The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China
Chapter 12: The impact of COVID-19 on education and training in speech-language pathology
Janet Ho-yee Ng
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China
Chapter 13: Case studies of adults with COVID-19 infection
Louise Cummings
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China
Biography
Louise Cummings is Professor in the Department of English and Communication at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research interests in speech-language pathology are pragmatic disorders, language impairment in COVID-19, and communication in neurodegenerative disorders. In 2020, she published the volume Language in Dementia with Cambridge University Press.
"This is an essential handbook for those regularly working with patients with COVID-19 or long COVID, and also extremely relevant to all SLT services to learn more about the wider impact of the pandemic on service provision and the communication and quality of life of service users." - Philippa Clay, University of London, Bulletin, the official magazine of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
