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By Ken Bleile, PhD
March 12, 2021
Speech knowledge refers to how similar a treatment sound is compared to other sounds a child makes. If you select a treatment sound only slightly different from other sounds the child already produces, you are following a most knowledge method. If you…
By Geraldine P. Wallach, Ph.D., CCC-SLP & Alaine Ocampo, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
February 25, 2021
In this article, we ask the question: How do we begin to pull together several interacting skills often interpreted under the broad-based heading of “central auditory processing” in a coherent and meaningful way? We will address ways that SLPs can…
By Ken Bleile, PhD
February 12, 2021
Treatment sounds are the speech elements (vowels, consonants, consonant clusters, syllables, prosody, etc.) through which a clinician facilitates speech change. Another (more widely used) word for treatment sound is treatment target. I prefer treatment…
By Eldré W. Beukes
January 28, 2021
You can spot them in your waiting room, the patient that you know is going to be more challenging than the average. That is the patient with distressing tinnitus. You may have had numerous conversations already and suggested sound enrichment, but for this…
By Ken Bleile, PhD
January 15, 2021
Knowledge of speech development is a foundation of speech treatment. To illustrate this relationship, suppose you determine that a child of 3 years has a speech sound disorder. Next, you might ask what I believe is the best question in our profession,…