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From: Nan Ratner
Date: 10/9/02
Time: 11:03:39 AM
Remote Name: 129.2.25.203
I agree with Professor Williams' response. To really understand priorities, I would want to know how the child scores on a standardized test of articulation; not all errors would suggest the need for immediate intervention. If the child's scores are quite low, perhaps below the 20th percentile, some articulation could be done, taking care to emphasize light contacts, rather than overarticulated or strong contacts. If fluency begins to suffer, I would re-evaluate. The literature suggests that phonology-fluency trade-offs are not as frequent as language-fluency trade-offs. Nan