Pro-ed The Source for Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Speech Disorders by Sandra L. Sulprizio - 31740

Pro-ed The Source for Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Speech Disorders

Ages: Birth-18
Grades: Birth-Adult

SLPs who see a few children with craniofacial conditions and SLPs who are new to the craniofacial team will be well-prepared to assess and treat such children with this comprehensive resource.

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

The book comes with these printable ready-to-use tools, to help you assess and treat cleft palate and craniofacial speech disorders:

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