Persisting Speech Difficulties in Children focuses on the psycholinguistic nature of their difficulties, how to design intervention programmes, and how intervention outcomes might be measured

Features:

• Each chapter will summarise recent research findings and close with a bulleted summary of the main points in the chapter.
• Provides an explanation of the psycholinguistic approach and how to implement it, and integrate it with other approaches.
• Includes case studies

Contents

1. Persisting Speech Difficulties
2. Theory, Therapy and Methodology
3. Stimuli Design: Segments in Single Words
4. Working on Segments in Single Words
5. Stimuli Design: Consonant Clusters in Single Words
6. Working on Consonant Clusters
7. Stimuli Design: Connected Speech
8. Working on Connected Speech
9. Generalisation
10. Linking with Literacy
11. Intelligibility
12. Evaluating Intervention Outcomes
13. Service Delivery Issues
14. Putting the Speech back into Speech Therapy

Index

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