Full Description
Children's Speech Sound Disorders Concise, easy-to-understand overview of current practice in articulation disorders, childhood apraxia of speech, developmental dysarthria, phonological disorders, and structurally based speech sound disorders
Children's Speech Sound Disorders provides reader-friendly explanations of key aspects of the classification, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of speech sound disorders, with clinically applicable insights from 58 distinguished contributors who draw on their current work in the child speech field in providing expert essays.
This bestselling guide with international appeal includes case vignettes and relatable real-world examples to place topics in context. Children's Speech Sound Disorders also delivers information on:
The evolution of current practices, working with families, telepractice innovations, and important new speech acquisition norms
Phonetic, stimulability, perceptual, phonological, and motor-learning-based interventions, and facilitating phonological awareness development in children with speech sound disorders
Treatment target selection, phonemic placement and shaping techniques, and goal attack strategies for a range of sounds including affricates, compensatory errors in cleft lip and palate, fricatives, /ɹ/, and vowels
Lifelong speech and psychological consequences of childhood apraxia of speech and measuring speech intelligibility in children with motor speech disorders
Multilingualism, language variation, and the application of constraint-based nonlinear phonology across languages
Drawing on a range of theoretical, research and clinical perspectives and emphasising treatment fidelity, quality client care, and evidence-based practice, Children's Speech Sound Disorders comprises an indispensable collection of research-based clinical nuggets, hands-on strategies, thoughtful discussion, and inspiration for academics, clinicians, educators and students in speech-language pathology/speech and language therapy.
Contents
Acknowledgement of Country viii
Contributors ix
Part I a Practical Update 1
1 The Evolution of Current Practices 25
2 Terms, Classification, and Assessment 66
3 Working with Families and Special Populations of Children 114
4 Phonetic, Stimulability, Perceptual, and Phonological Interventions 171
5 More Intervention Approaches 235
6 Common, Best, and Evidence-based Practice 283
Part II Speech Intervention in Everyday Practice 309
7 Phonological Disorders and CAS: Characteristics, Goals, and Intervention 321
8 Motor Speech Disorders 363
9 Treatment Targets and Strategies 426
10 Multilingualism and Language Variation 472
11 Technology, Communication, and SSD 511
12 Change 550
Contributor Index 558
Subject Index 559
