Description: 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 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

Series: The Source

Publisher: Linguisystems

Grade: Birth - 18

Format: SOFTCOVER