(BOOK)-The Late Eight

The Late Eight now in its second edition is a popular resource for clinicians students and academics working with students whose speech contains errors affecting th voiced theta th unvoiced theta s z l Vocalic r r sh or ts These nine sounds typically are the last acquired by English speaking children and they are the sounds most likely to challenge schoolaged students and nonnative English speakers both children and adults This text fills the need for a resource that a student or clinician can turn to when treating a schoolaged student or nonnative English speaker who experiences difficulties with one or more lateacquired sound Resources for each lateacquired sound include Technical and nontechnical definitions Age of acquisition Common errors Key phonetic environments Useful metaphors Touch cues Initial screening tests Stimulability tests Demonstrations of place manner and voicing Phonetic placement and shaping techniques Speech exercises Language awareness and speech activities List of words divided by phonetic and word environments Minimal pairs A companion DVD contains reproducible cheat sheets exercises and word lists for clinical use Included in these materials are 24 different demonstrations of place manner and voicing More than 70 phonetic placement and shaping techniques Different types of speech exercises 35 language awareness and speech activities More than 4000 words divided by phonetic and word environments More than 2200 minimal pairs The second edition includes a new chapter written by Carlin Hageman gives a motor learning perspective on assessing and treating the late eight In addition the companion DVD has been greatly expanded including 20 new phonetic placement and shaping techniques and 20 videos Each video is focused on a specific aspect of assessing and treating the late eight including demonstrations and discussions of thorny top

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