Interventions for Speech Sound Disorders in Children

Ann Kaiser, Ph.D. is the Susan W. Gray Professor of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of more than 175 articles on early intervention for children with autism and other development communication disabilities. Her research focuses on therapist- and parent-implemented naturalistic interventions.

Adele W. Miccio, Ph.D. died in March 2009. Having completed her Ph.D. in speech and hearing sciences at Indiana University in Bloomington, she was a distinguished professor at the Pennsylvania State University since 1995. Her research, funded by the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Education, focused on interventions for children with speech sound disorders and phonological development of bilingual children and children with chronic middle-ear infections. In 2002, she was a visiting scholar and guest lecturer at Harvard University, and in 2006, she was named Director of the Penn State Center for Language Science. A beloved and cherished colleague, Adele is greatly missed by all of us who had the privilege of knowing her.

Michelle Pascoe, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the Division of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and a speech-language therapist. She is director of Child Language Africa ( https: //www.childlanguageafrica.com), a research unit focused on speech and language development in the languages of Southern Africa, multilingualism, and ways to support clinicians when working with families from a range of language and cultural backgrounds.

Rauúl Francisco Prezas is an associate professor in the Department of Human Services at Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas. He has several years of clinical experience in the university, public school, and home health settings, particularly working with culturally and linguistically diverse populations and their families. His interests include speech disorders, phonological development, bilingual/multicultural assessment and treatment, working with children with highly unintelligible speech, phonological treatment models/outcomes, school-based issues, working with underrepresented students, and epistemological beliefs. In addition to publications in several journals, including the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, Dr. Prezas has written book chapters and articles related to interest areas, including monolingual and bilingual phonological acquisition, selective mutism, autism, fluency disorders, and culturally and linguistically diverse children.

Susan Rvachew, Ph.D. is a professor in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders at McGill University. Her research focuses on the development of more effective interventions to treat speech sound disorders in children and prevent reading disability in this population. She is the author of more than 80 papers and two books on phonological development and disorders.

Nancy J. Scherer, Ph.D. is a professor of speech and hearing science at Arizona State University. She conducts research on assessment and intervention efficacy for young children with craniofacial conditions. She focuses on assessing effectiveness of early intervention service delivery models (telehealth, parent training, hybrid) for application in the United States and international contexts.

Joy Stackhouse, Ph.D. is Emeritus Professor of Human Communication Sciences at the University of Sheffield and a Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. In collaboration with Bill Wells and Michelle Pascoe, she has developed a psycholinguistic framework for the assessment and management of children and young adults with spoken and written language difficulties.

Ann A. Tyler, Ph.D. is Associate Dean in the College of Health and Human Services and Professor of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences at Western Michigan University. She is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). She has presented and published extensively in childhood speech sound disorders. Her research in the area of treatment efficacy has been supported by a variety of external funding sponsors. Dr. Tyler has served on numerous editorial boards and has served ASHA in a variety of roles.

Pam Williams, Ph.D. worked as a speech and language therapist at the Nuffield Hearing and Speech Centre for more than 30 years before retiring from her clinical role in December 2017. She was involved in the creation of the original Nuffield Centre Dyspraxia Programme (1985) and has been responsible for its development since 1993. She continues to run training courses for speech and language professionals on the subject of childhood apraxia of speech and the Nuffield Centre Dyspraxia Programme (third edition). Dr. Williams was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists in 2013 in recognition of having carried out work of special value to the profession. She completed her doctoral studies at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, in 2016, and her thesis investigated the diadochokinetic skills of children with speech sound disorders. She continues to be a member of the Child Speech Disorder Research Network for the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Yvonne Wren, Ph.D. is Director of Bristol Speech and Language Therapy Research Unit in the United Kingdom, a research center hosted within a National Health Service facility and carrying out applied research in speech-language pathology. Her primary research interests include speech sound disorder, cleft palate, and epidemiology of speech and language development and disorder. She is chief investigator of the Cleft Collective Speech and Language Study, a national cohort study of children born with cleft palate in the United Kingdom and is a collaborator of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, a longitudinal community population study following the development of children over a 25-year period.

Steven F. Warren, Ph.D., Professor, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences and Disorders, Dole Human Development Center, University of Kansas, 1000 Sunnyside Avenue, #3045, Lawrence, Kansas 66045

Dr. Steven Warren's research has focused on communication and language development and intervention. Working with various colleagues, Dr. Warren has contributed to the creation of pre-linguistic and milieu intervention approaches. Much of his research has focused on the effect of these intervention approaches and on the role of parenting on moderating the impact of developmental disorders, such as Down syndrome and fragile X Syndrome.

Marc E. Fey, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, was emeritus professor for the Hearing and Speech Department at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He published numerous articles, chapters, and software programs on children's speech and language development and disorders and wrote and edited three books on child-language intervention. He was editor of the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology from 1996 to 1998 and Chair of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association's (ASHA) publications board from 2003 to 2005. He received the Kawana Award for Lifetime Achievement in Publications and the Honors of the Association from ASHA.

In Memory of Marc E. Fey

The field of communication sciences lost a remarkable leader when Marc Fey passed away on September 12, 2023. At Brookes, we will remember him as the dedicated Co-Series Editor of the Communication and Language Intervention (CLI) book series, which he helped direct and expand for many years. Marc was not only a series editor but also a volume editor/author. One of those titles, Treatment of Language Disorders in Children, now in its second edition and slated for a third, has become a classic text for speech-language pathologists, for its balanced examination of interventions for emerging communication and language as well as more advanced language and literacy. A strong supporter of evidence-based practice, Marc brought his passion for research and commitment to well-designed intervention studies to the selection process for the CLI series. Those books benefited from his keen editorial and writing skills. Our staff who had the pleasure of working with him will remember many enjoyable moments at CLI Board meetings and his collaborative, encouraging leadership. His legacy will live on in the volumes he helped to envision and create for the field, and the difference he made in the lives of so many children with speech and language disorders.

A. Lynn Williams, Ph.D. is Associate Dean in the College of Clinical and Rehabilitative Health Sciences and a professor in the Department of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology at East Tennessee State University. Most of her research has involved clinical investigations of models of phonological treatment for children with severe to profound speech sound disorders. She developed a new model of phonological intervention called multiple oppositions that has been the basis of federally funded intervention studies by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and she developed a phonological intervention software program, Sound Contrasts in Phonology (SCIP), that was funded by NIH. Dr. Williams served as associate editor of Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools and most recently served as the associate editor of the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. Dr. Williams is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and served as ASHA Vice President for Academic Affairs in Speech-Language Pathology (2016-2018). She currently serves as ASHA's 2020 President-Elect (2021 ASHA President).

Sharynne McLeod, Ph.D. is a speech-language pathologist and professor of speech and language acquisition at Charles Sturt University, Australia. She is an elected Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and Life Member of Speech Pathology Australia. She was named Australia's Research Field Leader in Audiology, Speech and Language Pathology (2018, 2019, 2020) and has won Editors' Awards from Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing: Speech (2018) and American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology (2019). She was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, previous editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, and has coauthored 11 books and over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters focusing on children's speech acquisition, speech sound disorders, and multilingualism.

Rebecca J. McCauley, Ph.D.is a professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at The Ohio State University. Her research and writing have focused on assessment and treatment of pediatric communication disorders, with a special focus on speech sound disorders, including childhood apraxia of speech. She has authored or edited seven books on these topics and co-authored a test designed to aid in the differential diagnosis of childhood apraxia of speech. Dr. McCauley is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, has received Honors of the Association, and has served two terms as an associate editor of the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology.

Elise Baker, Ph.D. is a speech-language pathologist, clinical researcher, and an associate professor of Allied Health, with Western Sydney University and South Western Sydney Local Health District, Australia. Her research focuses of assessment and intervention for children with speech sound disorders. She is passionate about supporting speech-language pathologists' implementation of high-quality clinical research into everyday clinical practice.

Barbara May Bernhardt, Ph.D. was a professor at the School of Audiology and Speech Sciences at the University of British Columbia (1990â "2017). Her primary focus is phonological development, assessment, and intervention, including an ongoing crosslinguistic project ( http: //phonodevelopment.sites.olt.ubc.ca). Other areas of focus include ultrasound in speech therapy; language development, assessment, and intervention; and approaches to service delivery to Indigenous people in Canada.

Françoise Brosseau-Lapré, Ph.D. is a speech-language pathologist and an assistant professor in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at Purdue University. Her research is funded through the National Institutes of Health. Her research as director of the Purdue Child Phonology Lab focuses on how speech perception impacts speech production and interacts with language factors in children with speech sound disorder with or without concomitant language disorder.

Stephen Camarata, Ph.D., Professor, Hearing and Speech Sciences, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 1215 21st Avenue South, Suite 8310, Nashville, TN 37232
Stephen Camarata is a nationally and internationally renowned clinician-scientist who studies late-talking children. His research focuses on the assessment and treatment of speech and language disorders in children with disabilities such as autism, Down syndrome, and specific language impairment. He also studies children whose late onset of talking appears to be a natural developmental stage rather than a symptom of a broader developmental disability.

Sharon Crosbie, Ph.D. is a senior lecturer in speech pathology at the Australian Catholic University. Her research has focused on speech, language, and literacy development in childhood.

Barbara Dodd, Ph.D. is officially retired, but still active in research and teaching and writing. She worked in departments of psychology, linguistics, and speech-language pathology at universities in the United Kingdom and Australia. Her research focuses on the nature, differential diagnosis, and treatment of spoken and written developmental phonological disorders.

Jennifer Eigen, M.S. owns a private practice in Brooklyn, New York, where she and her therapists provide speech-language services to toddlers, preschoolers, and school-age children with a wide range of issues, including motor speech, language, and autism spectrum disorders. Jennifer also works for the PROMPT Institute, teaching PROMPT classes to speech-language pathologists worldwide, helping the institute develop online courses, and contributing to PROMPT publications. Additionally, Jennifer teaches a course in speech sound disorders to graduate students in New York University's online graduate program.

Allison M. Haskill, Ph.D. is a professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at Augustana College where she teaches child language development and disorders courses and also serves as Director for the Center for Speech, Language, and Hearing. Her areas of research include narratives of children on the autism spectrum and morphosyntax skills of children with speech-language impairments.

Deborah A. Hayden, M.A. is the developer and founder of the PROMPT Institute. Currently, she is the research director of the PROMPT Institute and continues to work with col- leagues around the world to promote and develop clinical and brain-related research for the identification, assessment, and treatment of expressive speech disorders across the life span.

Megan M. Hodge, Ph.D.'s clinical and research work have focused on linking theory with practice for serving children with motor speech disorders with the goal of maximizing these children's acquisition of intelligible speech.

Barbara Hodson, Ph.D. is a professor at Wichita State University and has been directly involved with phonology clients for more than 30 years. Her major professional goal has been to develop more effective assessment and remediation procedures for children with highly unintelligible speech. In 2004, she received the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation's Frank R. Kleffner Lifetime Clinical Career Award, and in 2009, she received the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's Honors of the Association.

Alison Holm, Ph.D. is a speech-language pathologist and academic at the Nathan campus of Griffith University in Brisbane. Her research interests include assessment and intervention for multilingual and monolingual children with speech sound disorders and multilingual children's language development and disorder.