Description
Book SynopsisThis is the third book in the series Children's Speech and Literacy Difficulties and is based on research and practice with school-age children with persisting speech and associated difficulties. It focuses on the psycholinguistic nature of their difficulties, how to design intervention programmes, and how intervention outcomes might be measured.
Table of ContentsForeword.
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Chapter 1: Persisting Speech Difficulties.
Chapter 2: Theory, Therapy and Methodology.
Chapter 3: Stimuli Design: Segments in Single Words.
Chapter 4: Working on Segments in Single Words.
Chapter 5: Stimuli Design: Consonant Clusters in Single Words.
Chapter 6: Working on Consonant Clusters.
Chapter 7: Stimuli Design: Connected Speech.
Chapter 8: Working on Connected Speech.
Chapter 9: Generalisation.
Chapter 10: Linking with Literacy.
Chapter 11: Intelligibility.
Chapter 12: Evaluating Intervention Outcomes.
Chapter 13: Service Delivery Issues.
Chapter 14: Putting the Speech back into Speech Therapy.
Appendix 1: Speech processing profile.
Appendix 2: Updated List of Examples of Tests for Each Question in the Psycholinguistic.
Assessment Framework.
Appendix 3: Speech processing model.
Appendix 4: Template for Journal Review.
Appendix 5: Examples of Core Vocabulary used with a child with PSDs.
Appendix 6: Sample minimal pair lists.
Appendix 7: Pro-forma for describing therapy tasks.
Appendix 8: Child interview questions.
Glossary.
References.
Index.
