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Phonological Disorders in Children Clinical Decision Making in Assessment and Intervention

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ISBN-10: 1557667845

ISBN-13: 9781557667847

Edition: 2005

Authors: Alan G. Kamhi, Karen E. Pollock, Marc Fey, A. Williams

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This is one-of-a-kind resource presents a wide range of expert opinions about phonological disorders in children, allowing readers to understand and compare diverse approaches to assessment and intervention, choose the ones that will work best, and use their new knowledge to make decisions during clinical interventions. For each of the book's three sections--Assessment and Classification. Goal and Target Selection, and Intervention--the editors pose important "frequently asked questions" for each contributor to answer, on topics such as diagnostic classification systems, integration of language goals with phonological goals, selection of treatment goals and targets, individual therapy…    
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List price: $42.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Brookes Publishing
Publication date: 4/20/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

A. Lynn Williams, Ph.D., joined the Communicative Disorders faculty of East Tennessee State University in 1995 following academic positions at Oklahoma State University and California State University at Fullerton. Most of her research over the past decade has involved clinical investigations of models of phonological treatment for children with severe to profound speech disorders. She developed an alternative model of phonological intervention, called multiple oppositions, which she has examined in National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded treatment efficacy studies and recently has compared with other models of contrastive phonological intervention. Dr. Williams is the author of SCIP:…    

Series Preface
Editorial Advisory Board
About the Editors
Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Assessment and Classification
Clinical Diagnosis of Developmental Speech Disorders
Perspectives in Assessment
Components of Phonological Assessment
Assessment for Determining a Communication Profile
Assessment and Classification: An Integrative Model of Language and Motor Contributions to Phonological Development
Goal and Target Selection
Promoting Generalization: Selecting, Scheduling, and Integrating Goals
Goals and Targets: Facilitating the Self-Organizing Nature of a Neuro-Network
Goal and Target Selection for Developmental Speech Disorders
From Developmental Norms to Distance Metrics: Past, Present, and Future Directions for Target Selection Practices
Selection of Phonological Goals and Targets: Not Just an Exercise in Phonological Analysis
Intervention
Planning and Monitoring Intervention Programs
Intervention: Manipulating Complex Input to Promote Self-Organization of a Neuro-Network
Special Considerations in Intervention
A Treatment Program for Enhancing Stimulability
The Importance of Phonetic Factors in Phonological Intervention
A Model and Structure for Phonological Intervention
Phonological Intervention: The How or the What?
Summary, Reflections, and Future Directions
Index