Description
Book SynopsisSECOND EDITION Children''s Speech Sound Disorders
Speaking directly to experienced and novice clinicians, educators and students in speech-language pathology/speech and language therapy via an informative essay-based approach, Children''s Speech Sound Disorders provides concise, easy-to-understand explanations of key aspects of the classification, assessment, diagnosis and treatment of articulation disorders, phonological disorders and childhood apraxia of speech. It also includes a range of searching questions to international experts on their work in the child speech field.
This new edition of Children''s Speech Sound Disorders is meticulously updated and expanded. It includes new material on Apps, assessing and treating two-year-olds, children acquiring languages other than English and working with multilingual children, communities of practice in communication sciences and disorders, distinguishing delay from disorder, linguistic sciences, counsel
Table of Contents
Contributors vi
About the companion website xiii
Part I A Practical Update 1
1 The evolution of current practices 21
2 Terminology, classification, description, measurement, assessment and targets 62
3 Special populations of children 121
4 Intervention approaches 174
5 ‘Common’, ‘best’ and evidence-based practice 227
Part II Speech Intervention in Everyday Practice 285
6 Phonological disorder and CAS: Characteristics, goals and treatment 292
7 Childhood apraxia of speech 343
8 Treatment targets and strategies for speech sound disorders 380
9 Parents and children together in phonological intervention 414
10 Directions and reflections 452
Contributor index 470
Subject index 471
