The effects of treatment on errors in consonant clusters and in ambisyllabic consonants were investigated in two adults with histories of developmental phonological problems. Results indicated that treatment, consisting of a sound-referenced rebus approach, affected change in production of trained words as well as generalization to untrained words…

This study reviewed the exceptional educational needs histories of 36 children who had received preschool speech services at a phonology clinic. Findings indicated that 75-80 percent of children continued to have speech/language and other special education needs as they neared middle school and beyond. (Author/DB)

Two tracheoesophageal speakers experienced in use of the tracheostoma valve (TSV) produced speech samples varying with location of contrastive stress, sentence intonation, and use of TSV. Listeners (n=34) found that TSV-use reduced speaker ability to signal suprasegmentals; however, locus of the suprasegmentals, particularly stress placement,…

Concerned about the number of teachers who have substandard speech and pronunciation, the author directs attention to some of the more glaring problems related to pronunciation and voice. (RB)

Reviewed are seven recent books on the various difficulties some children have in the development of normal language acquisition. (Editor/RY)

Results of perceptual and acoustic analyses revealed that 20 Down's syndrome young adults were significantly more hypernasal than were two other groups (20 idiopathic and 20 nonretarded Ss). (Author/CL)

The validity and reliability of Wilson Voice Profile System (WVPS) was assessed by using taped matched voice samples of groups of 20 previously evaluated voice disordered and 20 normal children. A group of 11 trained listener judges evaluated these vocal samples. Results for differentiating normal from abnormal voiced children were similar to…

As a portion of a community service program for childhood communicative development, 999 sixth-to-eighth grade children were screened for speech and voice problems. (PHR)

This study examined visual analog scaling judgments of disfluency by normal listeners in response to oral reading by 20 adults with spasmodic dysphonia (SD) and nondysphonic controls. Findings suggest that although dysfluency is not a defining feature of SD, it does contribute significantly to the overall clinical impression of severity of the…

This study examined the interaction of ambient frequency and feature complexity in the diphthong errors produced by 13 Cantonese-speaking children with phonological disorders. Perceptual analysis of 611 diphthongs identified those most frequently and least frequently in error. Suggested treatment guidelines include consideration of three factors:…