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SLP Literacy Guide Chapter IV: Speech Sound Disorders and Literacy Development

SLP Literacy Guide Chapter IV: Speech Sound Disorders and Literacy Development

SLP

Children with speech sound disorders are at risk for co-occurring literacy deficits that can have long-term impacts on their academic success. As such, speech-language pathologists play a critical and direct role in the identification and remediation of literacy deficits for children with speech sound disorders. Substantial evidence in the literature shows that children with speech sound disorders are at risk for co-occurring literacy deficits which may impact a variety of pre-literacy or literacy skills including poor phonological awareness, word reading, morphological awareness, and orthographic knowledge. The risk for literacy deficits in children with speech sound disorders substantially increases for children who have a co-occurring language impairment, for children whose speech errors persist after literacy instruction has begun, or when children exhibit production of atypical phonological errors. The risk for literacy deficits in children with speech sound disorders is unsurprising given the phonological nature of both speaking and reading and the amount of overlap in the phonological skills needed to support both. In this course, we review the theoretical underpinnings for the overlap in speech sound disorders and literacy deficits and provide guidance for integrating literacy support into speech therapy for children with speech sound disorders.

Presenters

  • Katy Cabbage

    PhD CCC-SLP

    Katy Cabbage is an Assistant Professor at Washington State University and former school-based speech-language pathologist. Her research interests center on the connections between early speech and language skills and later literacy acquisition. She is interested in improving both the clinical identification and treatment of children with speech sound disorders and/or language impairment who are most at risk for reading difficulty.

Learning Objectives

Identify the overlapping deficits in children with speech sound disorders and children with literacy deficits.
Describe ways to account for speech sound production errors during literacy assessment tasks.
Describe practical strategies for incorporating literacy into speech sound disorder intervention approaches.

Agenda

Agenda

5 minutesTheoretical overlap between speech sound disorders and literacy
10 minutesStrategies for assessment of literacy skills in children with SSD
10 minutesStrategies for incorporating literacy into intervention for children with SSD
5 minutesConcluding thoughts and wrap-up

Disclosures

Disclosures

Speakers - FinancialKaty Cabbage is a salaried employee at Washington State University. Katy is receiving compensation for this course.
Speakers - NonfinancialKaty Cabbage has no non-financial relationships to disclose. Concluding thoughts and wrap-up
Course - ContentKaty Cabbage has no additional content information to disclose.
Course - Financial Support & In KindThis course is being sponsored by SLP Toolkit and ClassLab.

ASHA

ASHA

This course is offered for 0.05 ASHA CEUs, Introductory Level, Professional Area

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