The Source for Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Speech Disorders Sandra L. Sulprizio

Description Ages: Birth-18Grades: Birth-Adult SLPs who see a few children with craniofacial conditions and SLPs who are new to the craniofacial team will be well-prepared to assess and treat such children with this comprehensive resource. This book explains: the unique speech needs of infants and children with cleft palate and/or craniofacial anomalies what speech skills to address at each stage of development how to prevent faulty learning of compensatory errors of speech how to differentiate speech symptoms due to physical limitations from speech symptoms due to learned patterns (which require speech therapy) how to treat compensatory errors of speech with a step-by-step, phonetically-controlled approach how to manage and reduce the symptoms of velopharyngeal dysfunction The book comes with these printable ready-to-use tools, to help you assess and treat cleft palate and craniofacial speech disorders: The Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Speech Assessment (CPCSA) consisting of