Synopsis
Using a month-by-month developmental framework, Pam describes how to nurture sound development in children who have great difficulty learning to make sounds and speech. Pam Marshalla integrates information from articulation, phonology, oral-motor, and infant vocal development into a comprehensive plan of treatment. Apraxia Uncovered will help you understand how to help the child make a wider variety of consonants, vowels, syllables and words, and to become more intelligible. Techniques are appropriate for children of all ages. - Hundreds of therapy suggestions - Reference book that summarizes material - Based on thirty years of clinical experience - Pam’s famous practical style THE SEVEN STAGES OF PHONEME DEVELOPMENT Preparing – getting the voice ready for speech Speechifying – making utterances sound speech-like Honing – zeroing-in on non-vocalic consonants differentiated by place Oscillating – incorporating reciprocating oral movements Solidifying – establishing basic syllable constructions Advancing – leaping beyond simple syllable constructions Finishing – adding clusters and stridency at all levels of speech A NOTE TO PARENTS Pam has written this book and recorded this seminar in such a way that you will be able to follow the content. However, before you dig into this rather detailed material, Pam recommends that you read her earlier book, Becoming Verbal With Childhood Apraxia. APRAXIA UNCOVERED IS: - Book, softcover, 160 pages - Also available: 3 CDs (3.5-hour audio seminar, see Pam Marshalla's website) - Also available: optional 0.35 ASHA CEUs (see details at Pam Marshalla's website) - Appropriate for SLPs and some parents - For children of all ages
About the Author
Pam Marshalla, MA, CCC-SLP, is the author of several best-selling books, lectures, and other materials on the topics of apraxia, motor speech (oral-motor) and articulation therapy. She is celebrated as a “clinician’s clinician” whose practical books and seminars successfully integrate research data and clinical experience. Pam was founder and co-chair of the Oral Motor Institute, and for five years served on the advisory board of the Library of Speech-Language Pathology (now closed), and was involved in an advisory capacity with the International Association of Orofacial Myology.
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