A Spanish pilot investigation for a crosslinguistic study in protracted phonological development.

A crosslinguistic study is underway concerning children's protracted phonological development (i.e. speech sound disorders).

Ultrasound as visual feedback in speech habilitation: exploring consultative use in rural British Columbia, Canada.

Ultrasound has shown promise as a visual feedback tool in speech therapy. Rural clients, however, often have minimal access to new technologies. The purpose of the current study was to evaluate consultative treatment using ultrasound in rural communities.

The use of ultrasound in remediation of North American English /r/ in 2 adolescents.

Purpose: Ultrasound can provide images of the tongue during speech production. The present study set out to examine the potential utility of ultrasound in remediation of North American English /r/.

Method: The participants were 2 Canadian English-speaking adolescents who had not yet acquired /r/.

Ultrasound in speech therapy with adolescents and adults.

The present paper comprises an overview of techniques using ultrasound in speech (re)habilitation. Ultrasound treatment techniques have been developed for English lingual stops, vowels, sibilants, and liquids. These techniques come from a series of small n studies with adolescents and adults with severe hearing impairment, residual speech impairment or accented speech at the Interdisciplinary Speech Research Laboratory at the University of British Columbia.