Getting Started
Looking for just the right book or recorded material by Pam Marshalla? The following guidelines may help you get started.
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Oral Motor and Articulation
Pam has written three books on oral motor techniques in articulation and phonological therapy. If you are looking for information specifically about ways to facilitate jaw, lip, and tongue movements, read Oral Motor Techniques in Articulation and Phonological Therapy. This book also discusses methods to normalize oral tactile sensitivity. In this book you will discover that oral motor techniques are NOT simply "wagging the tongue".
If you are looking specific training material for teaching /r/ go to Successful R Therapy. If you are looking for material on the sibilants, go to Frontal Lisp, Lateral Lisp. Both of these books were written for speech-language pathologists and are not appropriate for parents. They present a integration of traditional articulation therapy methods along with tactile and proprioceptive stimulation techniques for oral movement specific to the sibilants and /r/.
Childhood Apraxia, Dysarthria and Severe Expressive Speech Delay
Pam has produced several materials related to childhood motor speech disorders. If you have a child with apraxia or dysarthria, she suggests you start with Becoming Verbal with Childhood Apraxia. It will teach you how to help the child make more sounds and say more words. You will learn ways to help him interact more often and to imitate with greater consistency. It also will show you how to help him play with his sounds and words in order to develop his listening and speech production skills. This book is easy to read and is appropriate for parents, therapists, and teachers alike.
Next, Pam recommends reading or listening to the recorded seminar of Apraxia Uncovered: The Seven Stages of Phoneme Development. Pam discusses how speech sounds develop over time - from the vocalizations of the infant to the sophisticated consonant-and-vowel sequences of the three-year-old. Therapists have praised this material as a way to help them understand what their clients are doing and where they are going. Parents find this material helpful only if they are already receiving guidance from a professional speech-language pathologist.
Pam also recommends her recorded seminar Improving Intelligibility in Apraxia and Dysarthria (coming soon!). In this class Pam discusses speech development in children with motor speech disorders. She presents practical methods to develop vowels, syllables, rhythm, jaw mobility and stability, voice and voicelessness, stridency, resonance, and place of articulation. Many therapists will want to start here. Parents can benefit from much of this material under the guidance of a professional SLP.
Vowel Tracks is a one-hour recording in which Pam further elaborates on the vowels for children with motor speech disorders. She suggests that it is appropriate for therapists who want more information on the vowels and who want to use this material for staff and parent training.
Autism Spectrum
Pam generally does not teach or write on this topic, but many who live and work with children on the autism spectrum find her book Becoming Verbal with Childhood Apraxia very helpful. She has received much positive feedback from therapists and parents whose child is not talking or just beginning to do so. You will find it helpful for learning ways to help the child learn to make sounds, to produce words, to imitate, and to communicate better. She has been asked to speak on this topic at the National Autism Conference in 2008.
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