Books are great instruments in the treatment for speech and language disorders because of the multi-sensory method they offer for learning. All books promote speech and language training (Chamberlain & Strode, 2004); Common inflection, another characteristic of repetitive books, can assist in addressing some of the problems with prosody that children with CAS experience
Improving sound symbol awareness and early sight word recognition can be challenging and wearisome for the child. A repetitive book, especially those with repeated words and short phrases can aid in the enhancement of phonemic awareness and pre-reading skills (Lovelace & Stewart, 2007)
In the treatment of CAS, it is generally understood that repeated practice of sounds and words helps to enhance speech and reduce some of the pressures linked with expressive language. Repetitive books contain various characteristics that can be part of an effective treatment strategy for children diagnosed with CAS -- predictability, existence of carrier phrases, repeat practice of target sounds, familiar inflection, and an introduction to phonemic awareness (Velleman, 2005)
It refers to a group of motor speech disorders, which develops from a disturbance in the neuromuscular control of speech. That disturbance may be a stroke, brain injury, Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS, multiple sclerosis, Huntington's disease, cerebral palsy or tumors (Ashley, 2006)
The evaluation found that these methods and procedures are questionable in matters concerning the implied cause of developmental speech sound disorders, the neurophysiologic differences between the limbs and oral musculature, the development of new theories of movement and movement control, and the sparseness of research on these methods and procedure (Ruscello). Neuromuscular Treatments A review of the theoretical foundation for these treatments revealed limited empirical support to validate its use (Clark, 2003)
Among those are the Assessment of Intelligibility of Dysarthric Speech and French Dysarthria Assessment (Ashley). The use of acoustic methods can identify any of the three classes of subclinical manifestations of dysarthria (Ganty et al
The factors claimed to influence the potential effectiveness of passive exercises and physical modalities and additional issues that contributed to the controversy concerning oral motor therapies were presented and investigated (Clark). Support Research on Speech Language Pathology This research assessed the effectiveness of the intervention delivered by speech and language pathologists to children with disarthric speech, which developed from acquired brain injury (Morgan & Vogel, 2008)
Issues, however, still remain concerning some modes of treatment of the disorder and research continues on intervention. Disorder or impairment in a person's ability to communication can be distressing if not recognized and adequately treated (Melfi et al
This is especially important if the defect developed from a degenerative disease (Ashley). Controversies in Treatment Non-Speech Methods and Procedures Thorough discussion and investigation of certain non-speech methods and procedures, which were claimed to treat developmental speech sound disorders, revealed no substantive evidence to support the claim (Ruscello, 2008)