Children's Speech Sound Disorders

Childrens Speech Sound Disorders is a comprehensive guide to the classification, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of speech sound disorders in children. It includes expert essays from 58 distinguished contributors and offers clinically applicable insights and information on current practices, working with families, telepractice innovations, and new speech acquisition norms. The book covers phonetic, stimulability, perceptual, phonological, and motor-learning-based interventions, as well as treatment target selection, phonemic placement, and shaping techniques. It also discusses the lifelong speech and psychological consequences of childhood apraxia of speech and measures speech intelligibility in children with motor speech disorders.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 592 pages
Publication date: 03 August 2023
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Children's Speech Sound Disorders is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the current practices in the field of articulation disorders, childhood apraxia of speech, developmental dysarthria, phonological disorders, and structurally based speech sound disorders. Written in a concise and easy-to-understand manner, this book offers a concise overview of these disorders, providing clinically applicable insights from 58 distinguished contributors who are experts in the child speech field.

The book begins with an introduction that provides an overview of speech sound disorders and their impact on children. It then proceeds to cover various topics, including the classification and assessment of speech sound disorders, the diagnosis of these disorders, and the treatment approaches employed.

One of the key strengths of this book is its inclusion of case vignettes and relatable real-world examples. These examples help to place the topics discussed in context and make them more accessible to readers. The book also provides information on the evolution of current practices in the field, including working with families, telepractice innovations, and important new speech acquisition norms.

In addition to covering the clinical aspects of speech sound disorders, the book also delves into phonetic, stimulability, perceptual, phonological, and motor-learning-based interventions. It discusses the use of these interventions to facilitate phonological awareness development in children with speech sound disorders and provides detailed information on 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 are also discussed in the book. Multilingualism, language variation, and the application of constraint-based nonlinear phonology across languages are also explored, highlighting the importance of considering these factors in the treatment of speech sound disorders.

Throughout the book, theoretical, research, and clinical perspectives are integrated, emphasizing treatment fidelity, quality client care, and evidence-based practice. The contributors draw on their extensive experience and expertise to provide readers with practical insights and strategies that can be applied in clinical settings.

Children's Speech Sound Disorders is an indispensable resource for speech-language pathologists, audiologists, educators, and other professionals who work with children with speech sound disorders. It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the field, covering both the clinical and theoretical aspects of speech sound disorders. With its reader-friendly format, case vignettes, and real-world examples, this book is sure to be a valuable tool for practitioners and researchers alike.

Weight: 1296g
Dimension: 204 x 256 x 34 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781119743118
Edition number: 3 ed