Following up on Peter's information about SAILS and other methods of speech perception training: SAILS is no longer available from AVAAZ Innovations. I am making it freely available to SLPs who e-mail me and request it. It is valid only for North American English in it's current form. In addition to past publications on the efficacy of SAILS as a means to improving children's phonemic perception abilities and thus impacting speech production skills, we are having good success in French, using SAILS in combination with live-voiced focused stimulation, minimal pairs procedures and parent provided dialogic reading to remediate difficulties with phonological awareness and articulation accuracy. We will be presenting some of this new data at ASHA this year. Luigi Girolametto has also published evidence that shows that focused stimulation can be effective for improving articulation accuracy in really young children but Marc Fey found that it was not effective for older children. SAILS is effective in part because it provides multi-talker input. Van Riper's ear training procedures that are provided live-voice by a single talker have not been proven to be effective although it is possible that they are with some children when administered as intended and in combination with speech therapy. Susan
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Susan Rvachew, Ph.D., S-LP(C)
Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Education
(sabbatical leave 2010/2011)
School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
McGill University
1266 Pine Avenue West
Montréal, Québec, H3G 1A8
514-398-4137
www.medicine.mcgill.ca/srvachew<http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/srvachew>
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