Prosody

The ability to read is critical for student’s literacy development and is crucial to developing their future learning. Learning is a lifelong journey (Gray, 2012, p.221) and teaching is imperative for reading development. Teaching students to become independent and successful readers is a complex process that requires educators to have explicit knowledge of the six main elements involved in the reading process. It is fundamental for teachers to prepare their students to gain meaning from what…

Developmental approaches: focus on the normative phonological development and age of acquisition norms when determining targets for intervention. Complexity-based approaches: targets are chosen based upon what is seemingly more complex with respects to the client’s knowledge, linguistic, and/or articulatory phonetic factors. Vertical: focus on one goal until it is achieved then move on to the next goal Series of goal achievement until “predetermined level of accuracy” is met Horizontal: several…

A Review of Childhood Apraxia of Speech and the Effectiveness of Motor-Based Intervention Therapy Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS), also referred to as Developmental Apraxia of Speech, is one of the most perplexing and poorly understood speech disorder found among children. Due to its perplexity, professionals have been unable to compose a definitive definition for CAS. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA, 2007) broadly defines CAS as a neurological pediatric speech sound…

3-C. He incorrectly identified the word “it” for “I,” “of” for “on,” “shopkeeper” for “shopker” and “pouring” for “peering.” He also omitted the s from the word keys. This data gave him a total of seventy-three words per minute. Shevaun read with prosody as he paid attention to phrases in quotation marks and read it with rhythm. While his accuracy was good for most of the passages, he got a median score of seventy-three which placed him in the 50th percentile rank on the Oral Reading Fluency raw…

Frederick Douglas once said, “Once you learn to read, you will forever be freed.” This is a quote that speaks highly of the importance of being able to read. When one is able to read, the numbers of opportunities available for a person are limitless. The five skills within reading are phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension; all of which students need to be able efficient at in order to be a successful reader. It is crucial for the teacher to provide daily…

Childhood Apraxia of Speech Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) is a motor speech disorder that involves difficulty of the brain in planning the oral movements needed to produce speech sounds. It is not a muscle weakness; the brain has problems coordinating and sequencing muscle movements to produce the sounds or words that the child is attempting to say (Childhood Apraxia of Speech: Overview, 2015). The core problem includes both input processing, as well as production. The prevalence of CAS…

Daniel arrives to sessions consistently and on time, dressed casually, with appropriate hygiene. He appears his stated age. Daniel displays poor posture, slouching periodically throughout session. Daniel is of average height and weight for his age group and does not display any unusual physical characteristics. He makes culturally congruent eye contact, looking directly into the clinician’s eyes when speaking, and his motor activity is relaxed and unimpaired. In regards to his gait and mobility,…

in the classroom because know students are not only practicing becoming more fluent readers speed wise, but they are also practicing the use of expression. This will help them use expression when they are reading independently. This also goes with Prosody. It is an important aspect of becoming a fluent…

The Overall Assessment of the Speaker’s Experience of Stuttering–Adults (OASES–A), is a self-report that measures the impact of stuttering on a person’s life in various situations. The OASES–A instrument will provide valuable information about Mr. Smith’s feelings, attitudes, and self-awareness in regards to his stuttering and cluttering. Mr. Smith revealed an overall total score of 3.06, a moderate-to-severe impact rating, signifying that he may not speak fluently or communicate easily in most…

exhibit parallel characteristics, while both remaining one another’s foils. Indeed, “The Raven’s” use of diction, physical parallel structure, tone, repetition, tension between characters, the poem’s deployment of exclamation marks, as well as its prosody and conclusion illuminate the poet’s theme relating to the never-ending pain of loss. The poem illustrates its theme of pain through its diction and depressive language in all of its stanzas. Specifically, the first stanza sets itself apart,…