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Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Speech Disorders

Sandra L. Sulprizio
  • Product Code 31740 ( MR #066150 )

Price $54.00

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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 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

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