Compendium of Auditory and Speech Tasks, with CD-ROM: Children's Speech and Literacy Difficulties 4

by Maggie Vance, Joy Stackhouse, Michelle Pascoe

The book summarises research findings from a range of projects using a set of auditory and speech procedures designed for the psycholinguistic framework developed by Stackhouse and Wells (1997). These procedures have been used with children and adolescents with a range of difficulties associated with cleft lip and palate, dysarthria, dyspraxia, phonological impairment, Down syndrome, dyslexia, stammering, autism, semantic-pragmatic difficulties, general learning difficulties, and disadvantaged backgrounds. The procedures have also been used with normally developing children in the age range of 3-7 years. As a result, the book includes descriptions of typical performance on the procedures so that atypical can be identified more easily. In addition, as the materials were used in a longitudinal study of children's speech and literacy development between the age of 4 and 7 years we can highlight which procedures will help in identifying children a) who are likely to persist with their speech difficulties and b) have associated literacy difficulties.

486 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Kim Knight · Rating 4 out of 5]

Clear explanations of psycholinguistic processes (mainly the speech input and output chain). Numerous tasks are provided, designed to assess each step in the speech processing chain, so clinicians can identify communication breakdown.