The second edition of Eliciting Sounds: Techniques and Strategies for Clinicians is a quick, easy-to-use compendium of techniques for immediately evoking any phoneme targeted for remediation. This new edition of our classic resource continues to provide the most clinically relevant information in a compact, accessible format. No clinical speech-language pathologist should ever be without Eliciting Sounds. 198 pages. Softcover. Spiral-bound.

Brief Overview of Eliciting Sounds (Special Features):>

• An introductory chapter providing background information, a summary of commonly used methods for eliciting sounds, and a clear overview of the book’s purpose and organization.
• Extensive information on consonant sounds, including:
  • Place/manner/voicing features for each consonant sound
  • Specific descriptions of how each consonant phoneme is produced
  • Common errors encountered by clinicians
  • Practical and Easy-to-use phonetic placement techniques
  • A summary of specific moto-kinesthetic stimulations for each consonant, and
  • A practical and varied list of sound approximation techniques
• An overview of the articulatory characteristics of vowels and diphthongs, including:
• Common errors
• Strategies for production
• Descriptions of production, and a
• Summary of moto-kinesthetic stimulations
• The most extensive and thorough chapter ever on the many variations of /r/, including both prevocalic /r/ (consonant /r/) and postvocalic /r/ (vowel /r/); more than 30 pages of coverage describing the science to practice issues that relate specifically these problematic sounds.
• Three new appendices including: (1) Appendix A: Procedures for Assessing Speech-Sound Stimulability, (2) Appendix B: Quick Screens for Evaluating Articulation Consistency, and (3) Appendix C: An Elicitation Strategy for Clients Who Lisp. The appendices provide first-of-its-kind, practical support strategies that appear nowhere else. They are effective supplemental tools that will help all clinicians save time and help children reach their goals better than ever before, and finally
• Over 85 new diagrams of tongue positions for each phoneme along with other illustrations that show characteristics of speech sound production.