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By Todd A. Bohnenkamp, PhD and Ken Bleile, PhD
June 19, 2020
Phonetic placement and shaping sometimes is confused with nonspeech oral-motor exercises (NSOMEs). Phonetic placement and shaping rely on phonetic knowledge to convert a nonstimulable sound into a stimulable one. Stated simply: The techniques place and…
By Warren Estabrooks and Helen McCaffrey Morrison
May 29, 2020
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that by 2050 there will be more than 900 million people worldwide with hearing loss greater than 40 dB HL—double the number of 2018. Today, there are 34 million children who are deaf or hard of hearing and…
By Ken Bleile, PhD
May 15, 2020
The following nine statistics give “the big picture” on how speech sound disorders may impact the life of a child:
1. A speech sound disorder is the world’s most common type of communication disorder, affecting approximately 10% to 15% of preschoolers…
By Trici Schraeder and Courtney Seidel
April 30, 2020
According to the Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality (2016), an estimated 26,000 pregnant women ages 15 to 44 illicitly used opioid pain relievers and/or heroin. Additionally, it is not known how many pregnant women legally used methadone…
By Ken Bleile, PhD
April 17, 2020
People often think of articulation and hearing as being mostly about the mouth and ear. This may be because those are visible structures—the former a hole occupying the lower part of our face and the latter a hole stuck on the side of our head. Of course,…