The Speech Spot is here to serve as a resource for assessment and intervention materials for today's speech-language pathologist. Click on the links below to navigate through documents you may find useful.

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word bank - over 1000 photos that represent nearly every english consonant singleton and cluster

• treatment sets - low neighborhood density words, many of which are frequently occurring
  
• generalization probes - non-treatment words that are used to assess generalization

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assessment measures - adapted from various sources

• consonant inventory measure - for a complete consonant inventory
  
• culatta test of narrative discourse - ages 5;0-7;6; norms; receptive & expressive discourse 
  
• test of oral and speech motor control - ages 2;6-7;0; norms; 10-minute administration; robbins & klee (1987)
• lewis & freebairn nonstandard measures of phonology - preschool through adulthood; norms
  
• test of grammaticality judgment of syntactically anomalous sentences - ages 5-7; norms, receptive syntax

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speech data - information useful for speech assessment and intervention

• early, middle, & late 8 - english consonants divided into 3 developmental categories 
• phonological complexity - list of marked properties that imply unmarked properties; includes cluster information 
• frequency of occurrence of word shapes - most common word structures
• early, middle, & late 6 spanish phonemes - spanish consonants divided into 3 developmental categories
  
• consonant frequency in connected speech - includes bar graph
• frequency of occurrence of syllable shapes -  most common syllable structures
  
• recommended ages of acquisition of phonemes -  from the iowa norms project 
• frequency of occurrence of 1-, 2-, and 3-syllable words -  from adult conversational speech
  
• frequency of occurrence of phonetic classes in adult speech -  vowel and consonant frequency data

miscellaneous resources

• asha publications - journals, newsletters, etc.
  
• recommended reading and reference - useful literature
  

Brian Sabella, M.A., CCC-SLP