Special issue: Transcription of Children's Speech

Over the past couple of years, Yvonne Wren, Sarah Verdon and I have been editing a special issue of Folia Phoniatrica et Logopedia on the topic of "Transcription of Children's Speech". We are pleased to announce it has just been published. It can be found here (https://www.karger.com/Journal/Issue/278480) and includes excellent papers from authors across the world (Canada, South Africa, UK, Ireland, US, Australia, and Vietnam). We undertook this task as part of being on the Child Speech Committee of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP).

Special topic issue of Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica: Transcription of Children’s Speech

In our roles on the Child Speech Committee of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP), Yvonne Wren, Sarah Verdon and I have been guest editors of a special topic issue of Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica titled Transcription of Children’s Speech. This week the entire issue has been finalised by the editor-in-chief Mike Robb and is ready for publication.
Here are the titles of the included papers:

1. Phonetic Transcription for Speech-Language Pathology in the 21st Century 
2. An Alternative Approach to Measuring Reliability of Transcription in Children’s Speech Samples: Extending the Concept of Near Functional Equivalence 
3. Transcription of Vietnamese Adults’ and Children’s Consonants by English-Speaking Speech-Language Pathologists 
4. Transcribing and Transforming: Towards Inclusive, Multilingual Child Speech Training for South African Speech-Language Therapy Students 
5. The Impact of Real-Time Articulatory Information on Phonetic Transcription: Ultrasound-Aided Transcription in Cleft Lip and Palate Speech 
6. Use of Transcription when Assessing Children’s Speech: Australian Speech-Language Pathologists’ Practices, Challenges, and Facilitators 
7. Percent Consonant Correct as an Outcome Measure for Cleft Speech in an Intervention Study
8.  Protocol for the Connected Speech Transcription of Children with Speech Disorders: An Example from Childhood Apraxia of Speech