Ages: Birth-18
Grades: 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:
  • Articulation Screening (for compensatory errors of speech)
  • Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Case History
  • Oral Peripheral Evaluation
  • Velopharyngeal Functioning Scale
  • Auditory-Perceptual Evaluation
• 79 pages of pictures and scenes with phonetically-controlled stimuli to eliminate compensatory errors of speech
• 19 pages of pictures and scenes with phonetically-controlled stimuli to improve intelligibility by reducing symptoms of velopharyngeal dysfunction
• 18 pages of word, phrase, and sentence lists for the treatment of compensatory errors of speech
• 6 pages of word, phrase, and sentence lists for the management of velopharyngeal functioning

138-pages • 8.5 x 11, softcover book with 136 printable pages (evaluation tools and therapy materials) • ©2010