Includes bibliographical references and index.

1 Completing a Single Session Speech Evaluation

2 Setting the Stage for Success: Establishing a Positive Working Relationship

3 Selecting Complex Treatment Targets

4 Selecting Linguistic Contexts for Treatment Targets

5 Developing Educationally Rich Activities:

6 Dynamically Prompting and Errorlessly Fading Multimodal Cues

7 Treating Motor Speech Disorders in Preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Preschoolers with Neurological Differences

8 Generalization Comes from Within

9 Promoting Early Literacy Skills When Treating Speech Sound Disorders

10 Researching Your Practice to Hone Your Craft

"Children with speech sound disorders are at higher risk of academic failure, behavioral difficulties, motor impairments, language delays, and literacy deficits. Speech Sound Disorders: Comprehensive Evaluation and Treatment by Kelly Vess provides the necessary tools to use research-based practices when diagnosing and treating preschoolers. Sophisticated yet readerfriendly, this interactive book is certain to revolutionize the methodology therapists use to treat children with these disorders and globally improve outcomes. Through a step-by-step process, readers will learn to critically review and evaluate research in practice. Guidance is provided on how to create educationally rich activities to comprehensively treat children with speech sound disorders. Readers will not only learn how to integrate research into practice, but also how to research their own practices to continually grow as professionals and advance the field. In addition, invaluable insights are provided on how to make efficient use of limited therapy time by targeting executive function, social communication, motor skills, language skills, and literacy skills while treating children with speech sound disorders"-- Provided by publisher.