Eliciting Sounds: Techniques and Strategies for Clinicians

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Synopsis

Most speech-language pathologists will, at one time or another, experience the frustration that often accompanies attempts to elicit new speech sound behaviors in their clients. This is especially true when a client does not have a target sound in his or her response repertoire. Eliciting Sounds: Techniques and Strategies for Clinicians is a quick, easy-to-use compendium of techniques for immediately evoking any phoneme targeted for remediation. This new edition of the classic resource continues to provide the most clinically relevant information in a compact, accessible format. No clinical speech-language pathologist should be without Eliciting Sounds.

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Reviewer:Sarah P. Colle, BA (George Washington University)
Description:This is a detailed account of the features (place, manner, voice) , production, common errors, common contextual variants, and eliciting techniques of consonant and vowel sounds (including diphthongs) . In addition, the book outlines procedures for assessing speech sound stimulability and completing articulation screens.
Purpose:The purpose is to provide clinicians with a resource to aid in the evaluation and treatment of articulation in clients. This book meets the author's worthy objectives of providing "quick and easy" techniques for eliciting phonemes.
Audience:Speech-language clinicians are the audience. In general, this book could be very useful for students, professors, or clinicians in teaching, treating, or assessing a client's articulation capabilities. The various experiences of each of the authors, as well as the use of well established research, establish this book as a credible source for this area of the field.
Features:The book reviews methods of eliciting sounds in general, techniques for eliciting individual consonants and vowels (including techniques for children with lisps) , detailed information on /r/ including its phonetics, elicitation techniques, and the science behind those techniques, and procedures for assessing sound stimulability and administering articulation screens. This informative and easy to use book is a valuable tool.
Assessment:This is a wonderful resource for students, professors, or clinicians. The book is easy to carry around or into therapy. The information on evaluation andtreatment of sounds is also displayed in a clear and practical format which makes the book incredibly valuable and easy to use.

Biography

Wayne A. Secord, Ph.D., was recently appointed by the University of Central Florida as the College of Health and Public Affairs Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders. He is also currently the Director of the National Center for Speech-Language-Pathology in Schools (NCSLPs) in Cincinnati, OH. The NCSLPs is a joint project of the University of Cincinnati (UC) and Miami University (MU). It is supported by a Project of National Significance Grant from the US Department of Education. Dr. Secord served as the Coordinator of School Speech-Language Pathology at The Ohio State University (OSU) from 1989 to 1995 and Chair of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Northern Arizona University (NAU) from 1995 to 2000. He is a Fellow of the Ohio Speech & Hearing Association (OSHA) and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), and has received awards for outstanding service or clinical achievement from UC, OSU, OSHA, the ASHA Foundation, and the Speech-Language-Hearing Association of Western New York (SHAWNY). He has authored or co-authored numerous articles, books, tests and intervention programs on assessment and treatment of speech and language disorders, and served as the Editor of Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, a major ASHA journal, from 1992 to 1998. A former school speech-language pathologist, Dr. Secord is a frequent conference presenter and a nationally recognized expert on clinical and educational assessment and the delivery of school-based services for children with special needs.