Speech Disorder Literature on the Whole

These texts as a whole demonstrate a positive outlook on having speech disorders. These disorders can be cured and overcame. They are good literature to be used in the classroom to get the students to be comfortable with speech disorders. They can teach about the disorder and inspire students who are dealing with these disorders. As a whole students can learn how to address the subject that some may not be familiar with and others may be very familiar because they suffer from them.

The article provides more solid information to the topic while the stories bring abstract life to the topic. Each book covers a different grade level. Each book covers a different type of speech disability. Hooway for Wodney Wat is a picture book for lower elementary school that has a main character that has sound substitutions in his gliding sounds (he pronounces his R’s as W’s). Cats got your Tongue is a picture book for upper elementary whose main character deals with selective mutism. The Silent Spillbills is a chapter book for adolescents whose main character suffers from a stutter of her S’s. These books cover a wide range of speech disorders for a wide range of students.