Children's Speech: An Evidence-Based Approach to Assessment and Intervention

Children's Speech distills scientific  evidence from around the world on sound disorders  across the areas of  speech acquisition, assessment, analysis, diagnosis,  and intervention,  and presents it with practical knowledge to prepare  speech-language  pathologists (SLPs) to work with children and their  families. The book  is guided by two contemporary frameworks that direct  the successful  management of speech sound disorders in children:  evidence-based  practice (EBP) and the International Classification of  Functioning  Disability and Health―Children and Youth (ICF-CY). The  foundation  knowledge covers important topics including defining the  population,  types of speech sound disorders, anatomical structures,  articulation  and transcription of speech sounds, and theoretical  foundations of  speech and speech acquisition. Practical evidence-based  knowledge is  covered in chapters that mirror the stages of contact when  working with  children with speech sound disorders including assessment,  analysis,  goal setting, intervention principles and plans, intervention   procedures, phonological interventions, motor speech interventions, and   the conduct of EBP. The last chapter provides comprehensive clinical   information for five clinical cases, including transcribed speech   samples, case history information, assessment results and other   real-life material. Throughout, readers are directed to complete   clinical application tasks, drawing on the case-based information in   this final chapter.