Speech Sound Disorders in Children in Honor of Lawrence D. Shriberg

Details: 280 pages, B&W, Softcover, 7" x 10"

ISBN13: 978-1-59756-249-2

Release Date: 11/01/2009

Written in honor of Lawrence D. Shriberg, Speech Sound Disorders in Children covers a variety of perspectives and disciplines on the way in which children's speech sounds develop and the difficulties in both specific speech disorders and the speech of children with other primary disabilities.

Contents:

• Chapter 1. Childhood Speech Sound Disorders: From Post-Behaviorism to the Postgenomic Era
  Lawrence D. Shriberg
• Chapter 2. Explaining Developmental Disorders
  Bruce Tomblin and Morton H. Christiansen
• Chapter 3. Genetic Influences on Speech Sound Disorders
  Barbara A. Lewis, Ph.D.
• Chapter 4. Subgroups, Comorbidity, and Treatment Implications
  Ann A. Tyler
• Chapter 5. Children's Speech Sound Disorders: An Acoustic Perspective
  Raymond D. Kent, Luciana Pagan-Neves, Katherine C. Hustad, and Haydee Fiszein Wertzner
• Chapter 6. Computer Processing for Analysis of Speech Disorders
  John-Paul Hosum
• Chapter 7. Motor Speech Disorders in Children with Autism
  Shelley L. Velleman, Mary V. Andrianopoulos, Marcil Boucher, Jennifer Perkins, Keren Averback, Alyssa Currier, Michael Marsello, Courtney Lippe, and Richard Van Emmerik
• Chapter 8. Acoustic Properties of Vocalizations in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
  Elizabeth Schoen, Rhea Paul, and Katyrzyna Chawarska
• Chapter 9. Understanding Speech Sound change in Young children following Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
  Thomas Campbell, Christine Dollaghan, and Janine Janosky
• Chapter 10. Factors Associated with the Intelligibility of Conversational Speech Produced by Children with Cochlear Implants
  Peter Flipsen Jr.