Persisting Speech Difficulties in Children

Dr. Michelle Pascoe: ESRC/MRC Research Fellow. Professor Joy Stackhouse: Professor of Human Communication SciencesProfessor Bill Wells: Professor/Head of DepartmentAll at: Department of Human Communication Sciences, University of Sheffield, U.K.

• Foreword. Preface.Acknowledgements.Chapter 1: Persisting Speech Difficulties.Chapter 2: Theory, Therapy and Methodology.Chapter 3: Stimuli Design: Segments in Single Words.Chapter 4: Working on Segments in Single Words.Chapter 5: Stimuli Design: Consonant Clusters in Single Words.Chapter 6: Working on Consonant Clusters.Chapter 7: Stimuli Design: Connected Speech.Chapter 8: Working on Connected Speech.Chapter 9: Generalisation.Chapter 10: Linking with Literacy.Chapter 11: Intelligibility.Chapter 12: Evaluating Intervention Outcomes.Chapter 13: Service Delivery Issues.Chapter 14: Putting the Speech back into Speech Therapy.Appendix 1: Speech processing profile.Appendix 2: Updated List of Examples of Tests for Each Question in the Psycholinguistic.Assessment Framework.Appendix 3: Speech processing model.Appendix 4: Template for Journal Review.Appendix 5: Examples of Core Vocabulary used with a child with PSDs.Appendix 6: Sample minimal pair lists.Appendix 7: Pro-forma for describing therapy tasks.Appendix 8: Child interview questions. Glossary.References.Index.

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