International Mother Tongue Day - meeting with colleagues from Cyprus

On International Mother Tongue Day (21 February) I had a productive meeting with colleagues from Cyprus and Australia about their chapter addressing cross-linguistic taxonomies of speech sound disorder that they have submitted for inclusion in our book "Multilingual Aspects of Children's Speech Sounds".

Maria Vasilopoulou, Sharynne, Kakia Petinou, Kerry Ttofari

 

Free lectures and resources based on our research

The following free lectures and resources have been created for colleagues who are suddenly teaching Speech Sound Disorders or Clinical Phonology online:

Phonological Interventions for Children with Speech Sound Disorders 
Baker, E., Williams, A. L., McLeod, S., & McCauley, R. J. (2018). Elements of phonological interventions for children with speech sound disorders: The development of a taxonomy. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 27, 906-935. doi:10.1044/2018_AJSLP-17-0127 (https://doi.org/10.1044/2018_AJSLP-17-0127)

Lectures recorded by Prof Lynn Williams about decision-making using the Phonological Intervention Taxonomy.

• PART 1: https://etsu.zoom.us/rec/sha/u8ZHdrOqqmZLeNbctRzSeLRiTpjfT6a82ilPrvoJnUrfdCQ2Kx68TuHpiQDxhA_t
• PART 2: https://etsu.zoom.us/rec/share/x5EyFZP5-SBIGqfUx12Ff7N_O5zjeaa8gHUf_fVfzXtuBj8wHb6D2I1zzxb5k1E
• .pdf of slides https://www.dropbox.com/s/pab2uvlvkf96kj2/Phonological%20Intervention%20Taxonomy_zoom%20lecture_Williams.pdf?dl=0

Speech acquisition
McLeod, S. & Crowe, K. (2018). Children’s consonant acquisition in 27 languages: A cross-linguistic review. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 27(4), 1546-1571. doi:10.1044/2018_AJSLP-17-0100

Last year I recorded a short lecture about children's speech acquisition:

• LECTURE: https://csu.ap.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=2a03515b-8d16-4906-bbc6-a9910071ce5d 
   
• Additional critical thinking activities and resources are available here: https://speakingmylanguages.blogspot.com/2019/11/supporting-students-critical-thinking.html

Elements in phonological intervention: A comparison of three approaches using the Phonological Intervention Taxonomy

The following book chapter has been accepted for publication:
Baker, E., McCauley, R. J., Williams, A. L., & McLeod, S. (2019, in press). Elements in phonological intervention: A comparison of three approaches using the Phonological Intervention Taxonomy. In E. Babatsouli & M. J. Ball (Eds.) On under-reported monolingual child phonology. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters.

Here is the final summary paragraph of our chapter

In summary, in this chapter, we have outlined the value of a carefully developed system for describing interventions, such as the Phonological Intervention Taxonomy, which builds on the rich history of Ingram’s work in child phonology. We did this primarily by illustrating how explicit, detailed descriptions of intervention structure can facilitate comparisons that can help the clinician make clearer decisions about what intervention may meet a child’s needs. In addition, we have presented thoughts about how such a taxonomy might be applied with the goals of increasing accuracy in the use of interventions, the clinician’s understanding of their own readiness to learn and use an intervention, and the field’s development of more rationally based curricula for beginning clinicians. Finally, we suggest research efforts that may lead to a better understanding of how interventions work and for whom they might work best.

The Phonological Intervention Taxonomy was originally described here:
Baker, E., Williams, A. L., McLeod, S., & McCauley, R. (2018). Elements of phonological interventions for children with speech sound disorders: The development of a taxonomy. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 27(3), 906-935. doi:10.1044/2018_AJSLP-17-0127.