The Source for Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Speech Disorders

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 Ready-to-use tools are found in the book to help you assess and treat cleft palate and craniofacial speech disorders. The book comes with a FREE CD of these printable materials in PDF format: 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 Copyright © 2010