Apraxia Uncovered: Seven Stages Of Phoneme Development

by Pam Marshalla

Using a month-by-month developmental framework, Pam describes how to nurture sound development in children who have great difficulty learning to make sounds and speech. Pam Marshalla integrates information from articulation, phonology, oral-motor, and infant vocal development into a comprehensive plan of treatment. Apraxia Uncovered will help you understand how to help the child make a wider variety of consonants, vowels, syllables and words, and to become more intelligible. Techniques are appropriate for children of all ages. - Hundreds of therapy suggestions - Reference book that summarizes material - Based on thirty years of clinical experience - Pam’s famous practical style THE SEVEN STAGES OF PHONEME DEVELOPMENT Preparing – getting the voice ready for speech Speechifying – making utterances sound speech-like Honing – zeroing-in on non-vocalic consonants differentiated by place Oscillating – incorporating reciprocating oral movements Solidifying – establishing basic syllable constructions Advancing – leaping beyond simple syllable constructions Finishing – adding clusters and stridency at all levels of speech A NOTE TO PARENTS Pam has written this book and recorded this seminar in such a way that you will be able to follow the content. However, before you dig into this rather detailed material, Pam recommends that you read her earlier book, Becoming Verbal With Childhood Apraxia. APRAXIA UNCOVERED - Book, softcover, 160 pages - Also 3 CDs (3.5-hour audio seminar, see Pam Marshalla's website) - Also optional 0.35 ASHA CEUs (see details at Pam Marshalla's website) - Appropriate for SLPs and some parents - For children of all ages

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Bob Bateman · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you aren't a speech therapist, then don't even both with this book, it'll bore you to tears.

For you speech therapist (which I think is only Kristin on my list), if you plan on working with kids with apraxia or wanna in depth lesson on speech development for kids under 3 then get this book. It has some great stuff for childhood apraxia of speech, and its changed the way I'll do therapy with highly unintelligible kiddos.

Of course its reads a bit like a text book, but at least its short.