Source for Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Speech Disorders - Book

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

Ready-to-use tools are found in the book to help you assess and treat cleft palate and craniofacial speech disorders. The book comes with a CD of these printable materials in PDF format:

• 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