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Spanish-English Developmental Speech Norms

December 1, 2008

We got a question about what speech acquisitions norms to use. The truth is that a lot of different research that has different timeframes for sound acquisition. Lisa Bedore at the University of Texas compiled most of the available research in one table. I attached some of the forms that we use here in Central [...]

Stuttering Info in Spanish

November 24, 2008

Hey everyone,
   I found out that the Stuttering Foundation has a separate website with downloadable brochures in Spanish.  It’s at:
www.tartamudez.org
Scott

Stumbling over Cultural Considerations

November 17, 2008

Taking Culture into account when working with diverse populations is always a sticky point.  You don’t want to say that every member of a culture says or does a certain thing but you also don’t want to ignore cultural differences all together.  Anne put together some great research on therapy and evaluations related to culture.  [...]

Liking the C-PAC Spanish Articulation Test

November 10, 2008

For those of you working with Spanish-speakers,  Super Duper is debuting the Contextual Probes of Articulation Competence.   We have been helping with the field testing and it is actually a really nice measure.

Decisions, decisions: Where do we start with bilingual children with phonological disorders?

November 3, 2008

Working with a bilingual child with phonological impairments raises some questions about what might be a correct approach.  Different approaches may be considered, such as selecting a single target or multiple targets from one language first and then focusing on the other language, treating both languages simultaneously, choosing phonological patterns shared between languages, or targeting [...]