Description
Ages: Birth-18Grades: Birth-Adult
SLPs who see a few children with craniofacial conditions and SLPs who are new to the craniofacial team will be well-prepared to assess and treat such children with this comprehensive resource.
This book explains:
- the unique speech needs of infants and children with cleft palate and/or craniofacial anomalies
- what speech skills to address at each stage of development
- how to prevent faulty learning of compensatory errors of speech
- how to differentiate speech symptoms due to physical limitations from speech symptoms due to learned patterns (which require speech therapy)
- how to treat compensatory errors of speech with a step-by-step, phonetically-controlled approach
- how to manage and reduce the symptoms of velopharyngeal dysfunction
The book comes with these printable ready-to-use tools, to help you assess and treat cleft palate and craniofacial speech disorders:
- The Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Speech Assessment (CPCSA) consisting of:
- Articulation Screening (for compensatory errors of speech)
- Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Case History
- Oral Peripheral Evaluation
- Velopharyngeal Functioning Scale
- Auditory-Perceptual Evaluation
- 79 pages of pictures and scenes with phonetically-controlled stimuli to eliminate compensatory errors of speech
- 19 pages of pictures and scenes with phonetically-controlled stimuli to improve intelligibility by reducing symptoms of velopharyngeal dysfunction
- 18 pages of word, phrase, and sentence lists for the treatment of compensatory errors of speech
- 6 pages of word, phrase, and sentence lists for the management of velopharyngeal functioning
138-pages 8.5 x 11, softcover book with 136 printable pages (evaluation tools and therapy materials) 2010
