Child Phonology: Characteristics, Assessment and Intervention with Special Populations

This volume on articulatory and phonologic disorders in the child population covers current opinion on diagnosis, assessment and therapy. Each chapter is outlined as follows: introduction, history, current status; nature, characteristics and differentiating features; clinical evaluation; clinical treatment; specific clinical treatment and/or case presentations; conclusions; and suggested reading. The main features of the book are: oral mechanism factors, neurological factors, sensory factors and cultural factors. It should be of interest to speech pathologists and speech pathology students.