The Phonetic Transcription of Disordered Speech

Phonetic transcription is an area of increasing interest for clinicians treating a wide range of speech and language disorders, and in this book Ball, Rahilly, and Tench present the latest symbol systems for accurate transcription at the phonetic, segmental, prosodic, and discourse levels for use in a clinical context and illustrate their use with various speech and language disorders. Key features include presentation of symbol sets for transcription of disordered speech and voice in context of phonetic transcription as a whole; illustrations of use of transcription with a wide range of disorders; methods for training students in clinical transcription; and importance of narrow, detailed transcription to accurate diagnosis.