The book summarises research findings from a range of projects using a set of auditory and speech procedures designed for the psycholinguistic framework developed by Stackhouse and Wells (1997). These procedures have been used with children and adolescents with a range of difficulties associated with cleft lip and palate, dysarthria, dyspraxia, phonological impairment, Down syndrome, dyslexia, stammering, autism, semantic-pragmatic difficulties, general learning difficulties, and disadvantaged backgrounds. The procedures have also been used with normally developing children in the age range of 3-7 years. As a result, the book includes descriptions of typical performance on the procedures so that atypical can be identified more easily. In addition, as the materials were used in a longitudinal study of children's speech and literacy development between the age of 4 and 7 years we can highlight which procedures will help in identifying children a) who are likely to persist with their speech difficulties and b) have associated literacy difficulties.

Professor Joy Stackhouse, Professor of Human Communication Sciences.

Professor Bill Wells, Professor/Head of Department.

Dr Michelle Pascoe, ESRC/MRC Research Fellow; All of Department of Human Communication Sciences, University of Sheffield, U.K.

Dr Maggie Vance, Lecturer and Research Fellow, Department of Human Communication Sciences, University College London.

Compendium of Auditory and Speech Tasks investigates input and output speech processing skills in children with typical and atypical development. This practical handbook

• presents 30 auditory and speech tasks designed for use with the psycholinguistic framework presented in the first book of this series (Stackhouse and Wells, 1997);
• includes four questionnaire formats for collecting background information from parents and teachers;
• matches items across tasks, permitting detailed profiling of a client's strengths and weaknesses;
• focuses on typical development as a basis for identifying atypical performance;
• summarises research findings from projects which have used these auditory and speech tasks with a range of participants having a variety of problems.

Each task has instructions, pictures where appropriate, scoring procedures and sheets, normative data, a description of typical performance, and guidelines on interpretation of results. While most of the normative data are from children from 3-7 years, the tasks can be used with older children and adolescents with speech and literacy difficulties; indeed the principles described enable practitioners to develop tasks for clients of any age. Two chapters focus on how the tasks and questionnaires can be used to identify children at risk of persisting speech difficulties and associated literacy problems, and the final chapter shows how the data can be used as a basis for planning intervention and for deciding whether a speech difficulty has really been 'resolved'.

Preface.

Compendium CD-Rom.

Acknowledgements.

Conventions.

Phonetic Symbols and Diacritics.

Chapter 1: A Psycholinguistic Approach.

Chapter 2: Development of the Assessment Tasks and Normative Data.

Chapter 3: Auditory Discrimination Tasks.

Chapter 4: Auditory Lexical Discrimination Tasks.

Chapter 5: Speech Production: Single Words.

Chapter 6: Speech Production: Connected Speech.

Chapter 7: Speech Accuracy, Rate and Consistency.

Chapter 8: Predicting Persisting Speech Difficulties.

Chapter 9: Assessing Risk Factors through Questionnaires.

Chapter 10: Using Auditory and Speech Tasks in Practice References.

Appendix A.1: Tasks for Each Question in the Psycholinguistic Assessment Framework.

Appendix A.2: Speech Processing Profile.

Appendix A.3: Speech Processing Model.

Appendix B: Standardised Assessments used in the Longitudinal Study.

Appendix C.1: Auditory Discrimination Task 1: Same/Different, S-Cluster Sequences, Words and Non-words - Reduced Version (from Bridgeman & Snowling, 1988).

Appendix C.2: Auditory Discrimination Task 1: Same/Different, S-Cluster Sequences,Words and Non-words - Shortest Form (from Bridgeman & Snowling, 1988) .

Appendix C.3: Auditory Discrimination Task 2: Complex Non-words (from Stackhouse, 1989).

Appendix C.4: Auditory Discrimination Task 3: ABX Task - Full Version (Vance, 1996).

Appendix C.5: Auditory Discrimination Task 3: ABX Task - Short Form (Nathan et al., 2004).

Appendix C.6: Auditory Discrimination Task 4: Legal versus Illegal Non-words.

Appendix D.1: Auditory Lexical Discrimination Task 1: Mispronunciation Detection - Full Version (from Vance, 1995).

Appendix D.2: Auditory Lexical Discrimination Task 1: Mispronunciation Detection - Short Form (from Nathan et al., 2004).

Appendix D.3: Auditory Lexical Discrimination Task 2:Without Pictures (from Constable, Stackhouse & Wells, 1997).

Appendix D.4: Auditory Lexical Discrimination Task 2:With Pictures (from Constable, Stackhouse & Wells, 1997).

Appendix D.5: Auditory Lexical Discrimination Task 3: Mispronunciation Detection for Individual Children (after Locke, 1980).

Appendix D.6: Auditory Lexical Discrimination Task 4: Words in Sentences (from Cassidy, 1994).

Appendix E.1: Picture Naming Task 1 - Full Version (from Vance, Stackhouse & Wells, 2005).

Appendix E.2: Picture Naming Task 1 - Short Form.

Appendix E.3: Guidelines for Scoring Full Versions and Short Forms of Speech Production Tasks.

Appendix E.4: Speech Production: Single Words - Picture Naming Task 2 (from Snowling, van Wagtendonk & Stafford, 1988).

Appendix E.5: Word Repetition Task - Full Version (from Vance, Stackhouse & Wells, 2005).

Appendix E.6: Word Repetition Task - Short Form (from Nathan et al., 2004a).

Appendix E.7: Word Repetition Task: Low-Frequency Words (from Nathan et al., 2004a).

Appendix E.8: Non-Word Repetition Task - Full Version (from Vance, Stackhouse & Wells, 2005).

Appendix E.9: Non-Word Repetition Task - Short Form (from Nathan et al., 2004).

Appendix E.10: Non-word Repetition Task: Matched to Low-Frequency Words (from Nathan et al., 2004a).

Appendix E.11: Mispronunciation Self-Correction.

Appendix F.1: Connected Speech Task 1:Words in Sentences (from Vance, Stackhouse & Wells, 1995).

Appendix F.2: Connected Speech Task 2: Connected Speech Processes (CSP) Repetition (from Newton, 1999).

Appendix F.3: Connected Speech Task 3: Final Consonant Juncture Repetition (from Pascoe, Stackhouse & Wells, 2006).

Appendix G.1: Speech Accuracy, Rate and Consistency Task 1: Oral Movements and Silent DDK Rates (from Williams & Stackhouse, 2000).

Appendix G.2: Speech Accuracy, Rate and Consistency Task 2a: Repetition and Spoken DDK Rates:Words (from Williams & Stackhouse, 2000).

Appendix G.3: Speech Accuracy, Rate and Consistency Task 2b: Repetition and Spoken DDK Rates: Non-Words (from Williams & Stackhouse, 2000).

Appendix G.4: Speech Accuracy, Rate and Consistency Task 2c: Repetition and Spoken DDK Rates: Syllable Sequences (from Williams & Stackhouse, 2000).

Appendix G.5: Speech Accuracy and Consistency Task 3 (from Coffield, 1994).

Appendix H.1: Questionnaire 1: Developmental History.

Appendix H.2: Questionnaire 2: Family Information.

Appendix H.3: Questionnaire 3: Educational History.

Appendix H.4: Questionnaire 4: Speech and Language Therapy.

Index.

Other Titles in this Series.