There is more to listening than just hearing. A miraculous process that begins in the womb, learning to communicate is a vital part of expressing oneself and of understanding and interacting with the world. A child’s ability to listen well affects every aspect of his or her life. But for some 1.5 million children in the United States who have normal hearing and intelligence, communication and language are blocked. Words are jumbled and distorted. These children have a hard time following direc...
Fly is sneaky and very cheeky. He likes to tease and annoy other creatures around him. Then he meets Platypus, who is ready for lunch. The race is on, but who will win? This picture book targets /l/ blends and is part of Speech Bubbles 2, a series of picture books that target specific speech sounds within the story. The series can be used for children receiving speech therapy, for children who have a speech sound delay/disorder, or simply as an activity for children's speech sound development...
The Common Core Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades K-2 (Corwin Literacy)
by Sharon D. Taberski and Jim Burke
Organized by the Anchor Standards in each category covering reading, literature, informational text, Foundational Reading Skills, writing, speaking and listening and language, this book will aid teachers working across grade levels. It features a range of support material including: Resources Common Core Recommended Reading ListsText Complexity ToolPlanning Calendar TemplatesTeacher Notes
Jane Passy's highly successful technique first came about through her work with children with severe speech and language disorders. Each of the 49 sounds (phonemes) that make up the English phonological system has a separate hand sign - related to where and how, in the mouth, the sound is made. The signs are logical and based on sound linguistic theory. The consonant sounds are colour-coded as an extra visual cue when doing written work. Cued Articulation and Cued Vowels are two companion texts...
What are today's best interventions for supporting language acquisition and literacy for children who are deaf or hard of hearing (D/HH)? This comprehensive textbook-and-DVD set brings the answers to life for tomorrow's speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and educators. The newest addition to the respected Communication and Language Intervention (CLI) series, this important volume enlisted more than a dozen experts to present evidence-based intervention approaches, spanning the critical...
Diction in Context is a unique and highly practical textbook for singers learning to sing in English, Italian, German, and French. Each chapter is designed for use in diction courses in academic music and voice programs, helping students learn through pronunciation, articulation, enunciation, punctuation, and cultural context in each language. Students and teachers of singing will benefit from the text's pertinent biographical, historical and literary sources along with diction rules and textual...
Speech Sound Disorders in Children
by Dr John E Bernthal, Dr Nicholas W Bankson, and Dr Peter Flipsen
Previously published as Articulation and Phonological Disorders, this classic text is the leading resource for courses on articulation, phonology, and speech sound disorders. Now in its ninth edition, this book continues to offer the most up-to-date and comprehensive discussion of the clinical literature and evidence-based treatment available.
Fitting and Dispensing Hearing Aids is an introductory book written for ENTs, prospective hearing instrument specialists studying to obtain their state license, audiology assistants, and speech pathologists working with hearing impaired adults. It also is an excellent introduction for Au.D. students or practicing audiologists just beginning work with hearing aid dispensing. This extremely practical and engaging book logically takes the reader from beginning to end of the entire hearing aid sele...
It is now established that difficulties in understanding other people s minds underlie many of the social and communication problems that are characteristic of autism. This book offers practical teaching materials for the practitioner in the field, exploring the relationship of theory of mind deficits to social and communication problems in children with autism. Based on their successful experimental work, the authors provide a detailed intervention programme, with accessible teaching materials...
Psychoacoustics (Springer Series in Information Sciences)
by Hugo Fastl and Eberhard Zwicker
Psychoacoustics - Facts and Models represents a comprehensive collection of data describing the processing of sound by the human hearing system. It includes quantitative relations between sound stimuli and auditory perception in terms of hearing sensations. In addition, quantitative psychoacoustic models of hearing sensations are given. The monograph contains a unique collection of data on the human hearing system as a receiver of acoustic information as well as many examples of the practical ap...
Tinnitus: A Self Management Guide for the Ringing in Your Ears provides a comprehensive self-help program to managing tinnitus ("ringing in the ears") and related difficulties (e.g. low mood, stress, anxiety, poor sleep).The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive self-help program for people with tinnitus ("ringing in the ears"). The book provides a resource integrating educational materials with pragmatic information on how to effectively implement a tailor-made approach to managing tin...
I'm a Speech Therapist What's Your Super Power? (Funny Therapist Gifts, #7)
by Comfy Couch Press
Read Having a Hearing Test to learn all about what to expect from a hearing test.
Early hearing detection and intervention (EHDI) is the gold standard for any practising audiologist, and for families of infants and children with hearing impairment. EHDI programmes aim to identify, diagnose and provide intervention to children with hearing impairment from as early as six months old (as well as those at risk for hearing impairment) to ensure they develop and achieve to their potential. Yet EHDI remains a significant challenge for Africa, and various initiatives are in place to...
Personal stories are the way we develop a sense of who we are, make sense of our experiences and make and sustain relationships. Research shows that people with severe communication difficulties - such as severe and profound learning disabilities, autism and language impairments - find it hard to recall and share the stories of their lives. This handbook draws on fifteen years of research and practice into personal storytelling in adult services and educational settings. Storysharing is a unique...
Antecedent Control
Promoting new and alternative approaches to behavioral support, this book explains both the theory and the methodology of antecedent control. Drawing on research and clinical experience, the authors -- a group of distinguished experts in the field -- explain how well-designed stimulus control procedures can lead to more diverse education, therapeutic, and habilitation options than can traditional reactive methods. Addressing behavior disorders that are commonly associated with a range of diagnos...
Neurology for the Speech-Language Pathologist- Elsevier eBook on Vitalsource (Retail Access Card)
by Rima Abou-Khalil and Wanda Webb
The new edition of this practical accessible text introduces preservice SLPs to 12 evidence-based interventions that improve the communication and social skills of people with autism spectrum disorder.
Speech, Language, and Hearing Disorders
by Herbert J Oyer, Barbara J. Crowe, and William H.. Haas
Presents information needed by classroom teachers seeking to be effective in meeting the special educational and emotional needs of children with speech, language, or hearing problems, and also to suggest ways to promote speech and language development of all children. Annotation copyright Book News
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