I have been invited to write the Foreword and Appendix containing speech acquisition data for the PEEPS and today I received the page proofs:
Williams, A. L., & Stoel-Gammon, C. (2023). Profiles of Early Expressive Phonological Skills™ (PEEPS™). Paul H. Brookes Publishing.
Part of my foreword states:
To date, there have been few tools available to speech-language pathologists (SLPs) to assess young children’s emerging speech skills. The Profiles of Early Expressive Phonological Skills™ (PEEPS) has been designed for young children (18–36 months of age) who have small vocabularies and limited inventories of speech sounds. PEEPS™ is a unique evidence-based speech assessment and is a welcome addition to SLPs’ almost empty toolboxes for young children...The authors of PEEPS™ are eminent authorities on children’s speech and have undertaken extensive research that underpins their conceptualization and operationalization of this unique tool. They have spent more than 15 years developing PEEPS™, and the world has been waiting...
