Handbook on Children's Speech

Raymond D. Kent, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His publications include more than 250 journal articles, book chapters, and reviews on various topics in speech science and speech pathology. He has authored or edited 18 books, including: Clinical Phonetics (with L. D. Shriberg), Intelligibility in Speech Disorders, The Acoustic Analysis of Speech (with C. Read), Reference Manual for Communicative Sciences and Disorders: Speech-Language Pathology, The Speech Sciences, Handbook of Voice Quality Measurement (with M. J. Ball), and The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders. He served as editor of the Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, associate founding editor of Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, and associate editor of Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica. His awards include: Honors of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association; Docteur Honoris Causa from the Universite de Montreal; Honorary Professor, The University of Queensland, Australia; Visiting Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, New Zealand; and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Oulu, Finland.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Biological and Psychological Foundations of Speech DevelopmentChapter 3. Systems and Processes in Spoken and Inner LanguageChapter 4. Typical Speech DevelopmentChapter 5. Assessment of Articulation and Sensorimotor FunctionsChapter 6. Assessment of Voice and ProsodyChapter 7. Assessment of PhonologyChapter 8. Assessment of Intelligibility, Comprehensibility, and Other Global FeaturesChapter 9. Principles of Motor Development and Motor Learning of SpeechChapter 10. Bilingualism and DialectsChapter 11. Clinical Populations and ConditionsChapter 12. Prevention, Treatment, and Clinical Decision MakingAppendix A. International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)Appendix B. Variations of the Oral Mechanism ExaminationAppendix C. Cranial Nerve SummaryReferencesIndex