At one time or another, most speech-language clinicians have experienced the frustration when
they have attempted to elicit new speech sound behaviors. We not only feel this frustration in ourselves: we observe it in our clients as well. This is especially true when a young child or client does
not have a target sound in his or her response repertoire, either imitatively or in contextual testing.
We literally grasp for straws—searching for that one trick or technique that works. It was exactly
one of these situations that led to the development of this book more than 25 years ago.
Like its predecessor, Eliciting Sounds: Techniques and Strategies for Clinicians, Second
Edition, is designed to provide the clinician with a quick, easy-to-use array of techniques for
quickly evoking any phoneme targeted for remediation. It also includes a description of place,
manner, and voicing features, and a list of common errors for each of 42 phonemes. Every
attempt has been made to keep the explanations of techniques short and simple and to provide
as many techniques as possible for eliciting the more frequently misarticulated phonemes. We
hope this book will be a valuable asset in therapy as well as a remedy for some of those frustrating sessions we’ve all experienced.