Articulatory and Phonological Impairments provides students with a clinical framework that encompasses basic terms and concepts, phonetic transcription, and several theoretical perspectives that are extensively applied to clinical examples. In addition, this text demonstrates to students a systematic transition from this knowledge base to the diagnosis and treatment of individuals with articulatory/ phonological disorders.

While this text offers a thorough discussion of phonetic principles (also known as the traditional or motor approach) applied to the diagnosis and treatment of motor-based disorders, emphasis is placed on phonemic approaches. Contemporary issues such as features of a phonological assessment, various phonemic-based therapies, and newer nonlinear/ multilinear phonologies and their role in the assessment and intervention process are treated in detail.