Differential Diagnosis And Treatment Of Children With Speech Disorder
by Barbara Dodd /
2005 / English / PDF
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Paediatric speech and language therapists are challenged by
diminished resources and increasingly complex caseloads. The new
edition addresses their concerns. Norms for speech development are
given, differentiating between the emergence of the ability to
produce speech sounds (articulation) and typical developmental
error patterns (phonology). The incidence of speech disorders is
described for one UK service providing crucial information for
service management. The efficacy of service provision is evaluated
to show that differential diagnosis and treatment is effective for
children with disordered speech. Exploration of that data provides
implications for prioritising case loads. The relationship between
speech and language disorders is examined in the context of
clinical decisions about what to target in therapy. New chapters
provide detailed intervention programmes for subgroups of speech
disorder: delayed development, use of atypical error patterns,
inconsistent errors and development verbal dyspraxia. The final
section of the book deals with special populations: children with
cognitive impairment, hearing and auditory processing difficulties.
The needs of clinicians working with bilingual populations are
discussed and ways of intervention described. The final chapter
examines the relationship between spoken and written disorders of
phonology.
Paediatric speech and language therapists are challenged by
diminished resources and increasingly complex caseloads. The new
edition addresses their concerns. Norms for speech development are
given, differentiating between the emergence of the ability to
produce speech sounds (articulation) and typical developmental
error patterns (phonology). The incidence of speech disorders is
described for one UK service providing crucial information for
service management. The efficacy of service provision is evaluated
to show that differential diagnosis and treatment is effective for
children with disordered speech. Exploration of that data provides
implications for prioritising case loads. The relationship between
speech and language disorders is examined in the context of
clinical decisions about what to target in therapy. New chapters
provide detailed intervention programmes for subgroups of speech
disorder: delayed development, use of atypical error patterns,
inconsistent errors and development verbal dyspraxia. The final
section of the book deals with special populations: children with
cognitive impairment, hearing and auditory processing difficulties.
The needs of clinicians working with bilingual populations are
discussed and ways of intervention described. The final chapter
examines the relationship between spoken and written disorders of
phonology.