Do you wonder why you have children on your caseload who have had the same speech sound production errors for years? Do you wonder what you can do to help the 5th grader who continues to have trouble with the /r/ sound? Do you wonder what happens to these children after they are off your caseload? This webinar will discuss these and other questions that the presenter herself had as a practicing school-based SLP and that she now attempts to solve as a researcher. In this webinar, she will explore the factors that influence language, literacy, and cognitive skills for children with early, persistent, and remediated speech sound disorders. Discussion will include how SLPs can help these children more quickly as well as assessment considerations for ensuring the best outcomes from intervention.

Learning Objectives:
You will be able to:

• implement early screenings of children with speech sound disorders
• implement “receptive” phonological skills in intervention for children with speech sound disorders
• reframe the idea of “artic only” as being something easy to treat or something that does not require treatment

Contents

• Defining phonological disorders
• Speech sound disorders
• Dyslexia
• Phonological awareness
• Phonological and orthographic representations
• Clinical implications: Assessment and treatment

Related Courses

This course is part of a collection—Assessing and Treating Speech Sound Disorders—designed for clinicians who work with children with speech sound disorders as well as clinicians who are new to this population. Taken together, these courses provide a comprehensive view of assessment and treatment of speech sound disorders. Access the full collection in the ASHA Learning Pass or purchase courses individually in the ASHA Store.

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Assessment Type

Self-assessment—Think about what you learned and report on the Completion Form how you will use your new knowledge.