This book addresses practical issues and concerns faced by clinicians in the field and graduate students in speech language pathology. The book is divided into three sections: assessment and classification; goal and target selection; and intervention.

Assessment and Classification; Clinical Diagnosis of Developmental Speech Disorders; Diagnostic Classification Systems and Special Considerations in Assessment; Components of Phonological Assessment; Assessment for Determining a Communication Profile; Assessment and Classification: An Integrative Model of Language and Motor; Contributions to Phonological Development; Goal and Target Selection; Promoting Generalization: Selecting, Scheduling, and Integrating Goals; Goal and Target Selection; Goal and Target Selection for Developmental Speech Disorders; From Developmental Norms to Distance Metrics: Target Selection Practices Past, Present, and Future Directions; Selection of Phonological Goals and Targets: Not Just an Exercise in Phonological Analysis; Intervention; Planning and Monitoring Intervention Programs; Structure of Intervention Programs and Intervention Techniques and Materials; Special Considerations in Intervention; A Treatment Program for Enhancing Stimulability; The Importance of Phonetic Factors in Phonological Intervention; A Model and Structure for Phonological Intervention; Phonological Intervention: The How or the What? Conclusion; Summary and Conclusion