Main description:

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.

Contents:

Preface. Compendium CD-Rom. Acknowledgements. Conventions. Phonetic Symbols and Diacritics. Chapter 1: A Psycholinguistic Approach. Chapter 2: Development of the Assessment Tasks and Normative Data. Chapter 3: Auditory Discrimination Tasks. Chapter 4: Auditory Lexical Discrimination Tasks. Chapter 5: Speech Production: Single Words. Chapter 6: Speech Production: Connected Speech. Chapter 7: Speech Accuracy, Rate and Consistency. Chapter 8: Predicting Persisting Speech Difficulties. Chapter 9: Assessing Risk Factors through Questionnaires. Chapter 10: Using Auditory and Speech Tasks in Practice References. Appendix A.1: Tasks for Each Question in the Psycholinguistic Assessment Framework. Appendix A.2: Speech Processing Profile. Appendix A.3: Speech Processing Model. Appendix B: Standardised Assessments used in the Longitudinal Study. Appendix C.1: Auditory Discrimination Task 1: Same/Different, S-Cluster Sequences, Words and Non-words - Reduced Version (from Bridgeman & Snowling, 1988). Appendix C.2: Auditory Discrimination Task 1: Same/Different, S-Cluster Sequences,Words and Non-words - Shortest Form (from Bridgeman & Snowling, 1988) . Appendix C.3: Auditory Discrimination Task 2: Complex Non-words (from Stackhouse, 1989). Appendix C.4: Auditory Discrimination Task 3: ABX Task - Full Version (Vance, 1996). Appendix C.5: Auditory Discrimination Task 3: ABX Task - Short Form (Nathan et al., 2004). Appendix C.6: Auditory Discrimination Task 4: Legal versus Illegal Non-words. Appendix D.1: Auditory Lexical Discrimination Task 1: Mispronunciation Detection - Full Version (from Vance, 1995). Appendix D.2: Auditory Lexical Discrimination Task 1: Mispronunciation Detection - Short Form (from Nathan et al., 2004). Appendix D.3: Auditory Lexical Discrimination Task 2:Without Pictures (from Constable, Stackhouse & Wells, 1997). Appendix D.4: Auditory Lexical Discrimination Task 2:With Pictures (from Constable, Stackhouse & Wells, 1997). Appendix D.5: Auditory Lexical Discrimination Task 3: Mispronunciation Detection for Individual Children (after Locke, 1980). Appendix D.6: Auditory Lexical Discrimination Task 4: Words in Sentences (from Cassidy, 1994). Appendix E.1: Picture Naming Task 1 - Full Version (from Vance, Stackhouse & Wells, 2005). Appendix E.2: Picture Naming Task 1 - Short Form. Appendix E.3: Guidelines for Scoring Full Versions and Short Forms of Speech Production Tasks. Appendix E.4: Speech Production: Single Words - Picture Naming Task 2 (from Snowling, van Wagtendonk & Stafford, 1988). Appendix E.5: Word Repetition Task - Full Version (from Vance, Stackhouse & Wells, 2005). Appendix E.6: Word Repetition Task - Short Form (from Nathan et al., 2004a). Appendix E.7: Word Repetition Task: Low-Frequency Words (from Nathan et al., 2004a). Appendix E.8: Non-Word Repetition Task - Full Version (from Vance, Stackhouse & Wells, 2005). Appendix E.9: Non-Word Repetition Task - Short Form (from Nathan et al., 2004). Appendix E.10: Non-word Repetition Task: Matched to Low-Frequency Words (from Nathan et al., 2004a). Appendix E.11: Mispronunciation Self-Correction. Appendix F.1: Connected Speech Task 1:Words in Sentences (from Vance, Stackhouse & Wells, 1995). Appendix F.2: Connected Speech Task 2: Connected Speech Processes (CSP) Repetition (from Newton, 1999). Appendix F.3: Connected Speech Task 3: Final Consonant Juncture Repetition (from Pascoe, Stackhouse & Wells, 2006). Appendix G.1: Speech Accuracy, Rate and Consistency Task 1: Oral Movements and Silent DDK Rates (from Williams & Stackhouse, 2000). Appendix G.2: Speech Accuracy, Rate and Consistency Task 2a: Repetition and Spoken DDK Rates:Words (from Williams & Stackhouse, 2000). Appendix G.3: Speech Accuracy, Rate and Consistency Task 2b: Repetition and Spoken DDK Rates: Non-Words (from Williams & Stackhouse, 2000). Appendix G.4: Speech Accuracy, Rate and Consistency Task 2c: Repetition and Spoken DDK Rates: Syllable Sequences (from Williams & Stackhouse, 2000). Appendix G.5: Speech Accuracy and Consistency Task 3 (from Coffield, 1994). Appendix H.1: Questionnaire 1: Developmental History. Appendix H.2: Questionnaire 2: Family Information. Appendix H.3: Questionnaire 3: Educational History. Appendix H.4: Questionnaire 4: Speech and Language Therapy. Index. Other Titles in this Series.