Over the past decade, fluent reading has come to be seen as a central component of skilled
reading and a driving force in the literacy curriculum. However, much of this focus has …

This book presents a systematic hypothesis testing approach to the assessment of speech
processing skills in children, and is based on the popular courses run by the authors. The …

One of the first steps infants take in learning their native language is to discover its set of
speech-sound categories. This early development is shown when infants begin to lose the …

Speech prosody plays an important role in communication of meaning. The cognitive and
computational mechanisms supporting this communication remain to be understood …

Dynamic frequency changes in sound provide critical cues for speech perception. Most
previous studies examining frequency discrimination in cochlear implant (CI) users have …

This study examined how four-to five-year-olds and seven-to eight-year-olds used intonation
(accent placement and accent type) to encode topic and focus in Dutch. Naturally spoken …

This study evaluated the validity of a new scale for assessing children's reading fluency skill
called the Comprehensive Oral Reading Fluency Scale (CORFS). The CORFS consists of …

Purpose: The aims of this review were to identify and describe the assessment tools that
have been developed to assess prosodic skills in children and adults and to evaluate the …

Researchers have established a relationship between beginning readers' silent
comprehension ability and their prosodic fluency, such that readers who read aloud with …

Segmental speech units such as phonemes are described as multidimensional categories
whose perception involves contributions from multiple acoustic input dimensions, and the …