The introduction to four papers on generalization in language intervention stresses the importance of generalization, the need to have reasonable expectations for generalization following intervention, and ways that learned insights about language form, content, and use can encourage generalization of new skills. (DB)

This response to commentaries on EC 604 058 attempts to update and clarify views on the application of principles of assessment and intervention in phonological disorders in children. The lack of empirical demonstration that this approach is more effective and efficient than existing procedures is noted. (Author/DB)

This paper, originally published in 1985, advocates a phonological approach to speech assessment and intervention with children having speech sound disorders in addition to traditional approaches to articulation disorders. New procedures incorporating principles of the phonological approach can be expected to consist of both new and traditional…