Developmental Phonological Disorders
A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR FAMILIES AND TEACHERS
Caroline Bowen © 1998

About the book

Practical 
This practical book aims to help the parents of children with developmental phonological disorders, in conjunction with speech-language pathology intervention, help their own children to acquire normal speech.

Cover Text
"Developmental phonological disorders are a group of language disorders that affect children’s ability to develop speech that is easily understood by the time they are 4 years old, because the sound patterns of language are disrupted. The good news is that the disorders can be successfully treated by speech-language pathologists.

This guide for parents shows how important their role is in the treatment process. Written in a clear accessible style, the contents of the guide is divided into two parts. The first part outlines the major milestones of phonetic and phonological acquisition. It describes: how and when speech sounds are acquired; how and why children make errors; and, how errors can be understood as part of the child’s overall development of speech and language.

The second part of the book displays how the treatment program works. The program itself is set out clearly and simply, and terms such as metalinguistic training, auditory bombardment, modelling and labelled praise are clearly explained. A special feature of this section is the series of questions that parents commonly ask.

The treatment approach of Dr Caroline Bowen reflects her fascination with the way children learn to talk, her wide experience as a speech-language pathologist, the influence of scientific inquiry into developmental phonological disorders internationally in the last 10 to 15 years, and her own carefully controlled research at Macquarie University, in Sydney, Australia.

Child, parent and clinician 
For Dr Bowen, child, parent and clinician each have an important, and usually enjoyable, part to play in encouraging, and gradually untangling disrupted speech patterns. This book should prove an invaluable aid in the process."

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