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Textbook: Goal Setting in Speech-Language Pathology - A Guide to Clinical Reasoning

Textbook: Goal Setting in Speech-Language Pathology - A Guide to Clinical Reasoning
Casey Taliancich-Klinger, PhD, CCC-SLP, Angela J. Kennedy, SLPD, CCC-SLP, Catherine Torrington Eaton, PhD, CCC-SLP
January 1, 2025

Please note that to complete this course, you will need to read the textbook Goal Setting in Speech-Language Pathology - A Guide to Clinical Reasoning by Casey Taliancich-Klinger, PhD, CCC-SLP, Angela J. Kennedy, SLP-D, CCC-SLP, and Catherine Torrington Eaton, PhD, CCC-SLP. If you don’t already own a copy of the textbook, you can purchase it at Plural Publishing.

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casey taliancich klinger

Casey Taliancich-Klinger, PhD, CCC-SLP

Casey Taliancich-Klinger, PhD, CCC-SLP, is a bilingual speech-language pathologist, researcher, and Project Director. She holds a PhD in speech-language pathology from the University of Texas at Austin, where she also earned her MA in speech-language pathology, BA in Spanish, and BA in communica­tion sciences and disorders. Dr. Taliancich-Klinger currently serves as an adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at UT Health San Antonio, and as a project director for Western Psychological Services. Her research focuses on language characteristics of Spanish-English bilingual children, multicultural issues, and graduate student learning. Together with a non-profit partner, Dr. Taliancich-Klinger codirects a community engagement pedi­atric clinical experience for graduate students and is passionate about fostering inter-professional collaborations within the field of speech-language pathology and other health professions.


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Angela J. Kennedy, SLPD, CCC-SLP

Angela J. Kennedy, SLPD, CCC-SLP, is the Director of Clinical Education and an Assistant Professor for the Speech-Language Pathology program in the Department of Communication Sci­ences and Disorders. She received her BA and MA in speech-language pathology from the University of North Texas and completed her clinical doctorate in speech-language pathology from Northwestern University. She has over 15 years of clinical experience in pediatric speech-language pathology in a variety of clinical settings including school-based, pediatric outpatient, home health, and university-based settings. Her current areas of research interest include increasing access to rehabilitative services for pediatric patients with communication disorders in under-resourced areas, examining the training and equipping of speech-language pathologists specifically in the area of speech sound disorders, and the implementation of interprofessional clinically based activities in graduate-level curriculums.


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Catherine Torrington Eaton, PhD, CCC-SLP

Catherine Torrington Eaton, PhD, CCC-SLP, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, Texas. She has worked as a speech-language patholo­gist in various medical and education settings, but her clinical specialty is aphasia. Her primary research interests include func­tional language use in patients with post-stroke and primary progressive aphasia as well as communication partner training for healthcare providers. Dr. Eaton teaches graduate courses in neuroanatomy and neurophysiology, clinical methods, and neurogenic language disorders, and she loves the challenge of clinical supervision.



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