Research in Logopedics: Speech and Language Therapy in by Anu Klippi, Kaisa Launonen

By Anu Klippi, Kaisa Launonen

This publication hyperlinks theoretical ways of logopedics to scientific practices of speech and language remedy in Finland and in Finnish language. It offers the readers with fascinating examples of and insights into the verbal exchange demanding situations in a language that differs considerably from these utilized in nearly all of released stories within the box of language and communique problems

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Aoyama found that Finnish children mastered the contrast at age 3, whereas differences were found among Japanese children in the same tasks. The Finnish and Japanese children were also compared by Kunnari et al. (2001), but at an earlier age. They discovered that Finnish children begin to differentiate singleton from geminate targets in production by the end of the one-word period whereas Japanese children, although also exposed to a language that makes quantitative contrasts in medial consonants, begin to distinguish them later.

1997) Satisfaction with standardized language testing: A survey of speech-language pathologists. Language, Speech and Hearing Services in Schools 28 (1), 12–23. John, A. and Enderby, P. (2000) Reliability of speech and language therapists using therapy outcome measures. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders 35 (2), 287–302. Joki, K. (1995) CELF-R:n suomenkielisen version soveltuvuus 10-vuotiaille lapsille [Applicability of the Finnish version of the CELF-R Test for 10-year old children].

By the age of 2;6 children have four to 18 correctly produced and stable word-medial consonant sequences in their phonological system. For these seven children, the first correctly produced consonant sequences were /mp/, /nt/ and /Čk/. As pointed out by Turunen (2003) a child seems to start off with homorganic sequences and then proceeds to more complex sequences (see also Chervela, 1981). However, even more discreet levels of possible acquisition paths were found by Turunen (2003). These levels are illustrated in the productions of the target word /pork:a na/ porkkana ‘carrot’.

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