This week our paper was featured by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) for Research Tuesday:
Crowe, K., & McLeod, S. (2020). Children's English consonant acquisition in the United States: A review. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 29(4), 2155-2169. https://doi.org/doi:10.1044/2020_AJSLP-19-00168
Immediately, a Facebook question came up:
There has been LOTS of discussion on just this point, beginning with the McLeod and Crowe (2018) article.
- Here is a summary of all of the discussion based on McLeod and Crowe (2018): https://www.theinformedslp.com/how-to/that-one-time-a-journal-article-on-speech-sound-norms-broke-the-slp-internet
- And part two based on Crowe and McLeod (2020): https://www.theinformedslpmembers.com/reviews?month=08-2020
- Here’s another blogpost on the topic: https://www.slptoolkit.com/blog/we-have-been-interpreting-the-articulation-norms-all-wrong/
- Here is a paper that puts the discussion into perspective for US schools (open access): Ireland, M., McLeod, S., Farquharson, K., & Crowe, K. (2020). Evaluating children in U.S. public schools with speech sound disorders: Considering federal and state laws, guidance, and research. Topics in Language Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1097/TLD.0000000000000226
The bottom line – typically developing children produce s, l, r by 5 years and here are the free images everyone can use to promote it: https://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech/speech-acquisition
Here is the email we received from ASHA announcing they had selected our article to profile: We've been doing this Research Tuesday initiative since 2015, and we have found it to be a very successful way of getting the word out about our authors' publications and research. I hope that the readership of your important article sees a spike because of next week's highlight! 🙂 Congratulations, and best wishes, ~ Kathleen Halverson, Editorial Projects Editor, Serial Publications and Editorial Services Team Social Media Liaison, Scholarly Journals Program 301-296-8719 khalverson@asha.org Follow us on social media! Twitter for Journals: @ASHAJournals Twitter for Perspectives: @SIGPerspectives Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/ashaweb/asha-journals
