Differentiating Speech Sound Disorders From Phonological Dialect Differences

Differentiating Speech Sound Disorders From Phonological Dialect Differences: Implications for Assessment and Intervention.

Correlates of phonological awareness in preschoolers with speech sound disorders.

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among variables that may contribute to poor phonological awareness (PA) skills in preschool-aged children with speech sound disorders (SSD). METHOD Ninety-five 4- and 5-year-old children with SSD were assessed during the spring of their prekindergarten year. Linear structural equation modeling was used to compare the fit of 2 ...

Phonological processing and reading in children with speech sound disorders.

PURPOSE To examine the relationship between phonological processing skills prior to kindergarten entry and reading skills at the end of 1st grade, in children with speech sound disorders (SSD). METHOD The participants were 17 children with SSD and poor phonological processing skills (SSD-low PP), 16 children with SSD and good phonological processing skills (SSD-high PP), and 35 children with ...

Phonological processing in children with speech disorders

This study investigates the output phonological processing of children with phonological disorder and delay and asks whether different processing deficits underlie different speech disorders. The study compares the speech errors of two groups of children on four tasks: naming, repetition of sentence, repetition of non-words and words. These tasks arguably tap different levels of output processi...

Childhood Speech Sound Disorders: From Postbehaviorism to the Postgenomic Era

I’ll never forget the sunny spring day in Madison when Rhea and Peter spilled the beans about this book. What an incredible, wonderful surprise. It took two months before I could get my head around the reality of this gracious gesture and hunker down to begin my writing assignment. Rhea and Peter asked me to sketch the “arc” of my research to date. I’ve tried to capture that rather wobbly line ...