This resource covers topics of interest to new and experienced speech-language pathology assistants, focusing on technical and clinical procedures, including professional issues and ethics and workplace behaviors like implementing treatment and collecting and summarizing data. It does not go into detail about normal processes of communication or communicative disorders. It describes the roles and responsibilities of the job, professional conduct, cultural and linguistic diversity issues, and health and safety issues, and skills development related to lesson plans and goals, note writing, augmentative and alternative communication, the use of play and literacy in therapy, speech sound remediation, and autism spectrum disorders. Reference is made to American Speech-Language-Hearing Association documents throughout. The accompanying CD contains forms. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)