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dc.contributor.authorMcIntosh, Beth
dc.contributor.authorThomas, Sian
dc.contributor.authorCrosbie, Sharon
dc.contributor.authorHolm, Alison
dc.contributor.authorDodd, Barbara
dc.contributor.editorBarbara Dodd and Abgela Morgan
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-26T01:41:44Z
dc.date.available2018-10-26T01:41:44Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.isbn9781907826337
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/380936
dc.description.abstractPreschool children with delayed development of communication perform poorly on measures of speech, language and/or literacy. On standard tests of language and literacy, most are at the bottom of, or just below, the normal range, with qualitative phonological analyses showing errors typical of a younger child (Dodd, 2005a). It is not surprising, then, that children with delayed phonology are the largest group of children referred to speech language pathologists (around 60% of children with speech difficulties, Broomfield & Dodd, 2004). Recent evidence from a large community cohort study suggests that 57% of children with phonological delay, at age 4, had resolved by 7 years (Morgan et al., 2017), unlike children with disordered phonological development, whose difficulties are more likely to persist. Children with delayed communication pose a problem for paediatric speech-language pathology services. They require significant resources because of their number, but deciding whether to intervene is not straightforward. Bishop and Leonard (2001) argued that therapy for children with speech disorders should be postponed, given that so many of them spontaneously resolve. If all children with speech difficulties were left untreated, those with articulation and phonological disorders, as well as the 43% with delay who don't resolve, would accrue the disadvantages of impaired communication (McCormack et al., 2010). One compromise is to provide therapy that relies on agents of intervention to deliver cost effective group programmes in schools, given evidence (Broomfield & Dodd, 2005) that delay responds best to therapy at around 5 years of age.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherJ & R Press Ltd
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.publisher.urihttp://www.jr-press.co.uk/intervention-case-studies-child-speech-impairment.html
dc.relation.ispartofbooktitleIntervention Case Studies of Child Speech Impairment
dc.relation.ispartofchapter10
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom181
dc.relation.ispartofpageto200
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLinguistic Processes (incl. Speech Production and Comprehension)
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode170204
dc.titleA preschool programme for disadvantaged children with delayed communication: A collaboration between a speech-language pathologist and a teacher
dc.typeBook chapter
dc.type.descriptionB2 - Chapters (Other)
dc.type.codeB - Book Chapters
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorHolm, Alison


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