This session focuses on children with severely impaired phonological systems. The first part presents information about methods for expediting intelligibility gains, including identification of patterns of phonological deviations, selection of optimal target patterns, and specific information regarding treatment. Because children with highly unintelligible speech frequently experience difficulties in the domain of early literacy, information about assessing and enhancing metaphonological skills is explained in the second part. Assessment results and outcome data for a preschool client and video clips of sessions are provided in the third part to exemplify phonological principles and procedures.
Learning Outcomes--Participants will be able to:
- Identify highly unintelligible children’s major phonological and metaphonological deficiencies
- Determine optimal treatment targets to facilitate the development of phonological and metaphonological skills
- Select appropriate tasks for enhancing children’s phonological and metaphonological skills
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