Overview

This new book is a resource for clinicians, students, and academics working with students whose speech contains errors affecting [th] (voiced theta), [th] (unvoiced theta), [s], [z], [l], Vocalic [r], [r], [sh], or [ts]. These nine sounds typically are the last acquired by English speaking children, and are the sounds most likely to challenge school-aged students and non-native English speakers, both children and adults. It fill the need for a resource that a student or clinician can turn to when treating a school-aged student or non-native English speaker who experiences difficulties with one or more late acquired sound.

Resources for each late acquired sound include: Technical and non-technical definitions; Age of acquisition; Common errors; Key phonetic environments; Useful metaphors; Touch cues; Initial screening tests; Stimulability tests; Demonstrations of place, manner, and voicing; Phonetic placement and shaping techniques; Speech exercises; Language awareness and speech activities; List of words divided by phonetic and word environments; Minimal pairs.

Included is a free CD with reproducible "cheat sheets," exercises, and word lists for clinical use. Included in these materials are: 24 different demonstrations of place, manner, and voicing; 53 phonetic placement and shaping techniques; different types of speech exercises; 35 language awareness and speech activities; over 4,000 words divided by phonetic and word environments; over 2,200 minimal pairs.

Reviews

• Doody Enterprises, Inc.:
  "* * * * Four stars from Doody's Review Service!"

• Ann Bosma Smit, Ph.D., Kansas State University:
  "This book will replace all existing references on ways to elicit difficult speech sounds. It will be an extraordinarily helpful reference for any SLP who provides clinical services to children with speech sound disorders. I certainly plan to recommend this book to my classes in phonological and articulatory disorders as a comprehensive source of valuable information for their future practice of speech-language pathology."

• A. Lynn Williams, Ph.D., East Tennessee State University:
  "Ken Bleile has written a user-friendly, clinician-oriented manual for the last and most difficult sounds that young children acquire. This book comes with complete screening tests, stimulability tests, key environments, tough cues, and one of the largest easily-pictured word lists, organized into minimal pairs, deletions, themes, and phonetic environments for each of the late eight sounds--all the fundamentals for designing individualized intervention plans and monitoring children's progress. This book is essential to any school-based, clinical, or agency practice working with children who have speech sound disorders."

• John Bernthal, Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln:
  "Bleile has created a wonderful compendium of information and clinical help regardless of one's clinical philosophy....This book brings together in one place the tools one needs to work with individuals with the common speed sound errors. Students and working clinicians will find it invaluable."

Audience

Primary Subject: Speech and Language Pathology / Articulation, Phonetics, Phonology
Audience Level: Professional/Textbook - Desk Copy

• Chapter One: Overview
• Chapter Two: [¥è]
• Chapter Three: [©£]
• Chapter Four: [s]
• Chapter Five: [z]
• Chapter Six: [l]
• Chapter Seven: Vocalic [r]
• Chapter Eight: Consonantal [r]
• Chapter Nine: [¡ò]
• Chapter Ten: [t¡ò]
• Chapter Eleven: Language Therapy for Speech Disorders
• Appendix A: Language Activities
• Appendix B: Tips for Students

About The Author

Ken Bleile, Ph.D.

Dr. Bleile is a professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders, University of Northern Iowa. He has also served as a visiting scholar in the University of Anatolia, Turkey, in the Ministry of Health, Singapore, in Hertzen University, Saint Petersburg, Russia, and in the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Dr. Bleile was Speech-Language Pathology Chair of the 2003 ASHA Conference and is a recent Associate Editor for the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. Dr. Bleile publishes widely on speech development, pediatric head injury, and communication disorders in children with medical and developmental needs.

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