User Manual. GFTA-2. Goldman-Fristoe Test of Articulation Ppt Presentation. Speech and Language Forum. Clinical Café by Tina Radichel, M.S., CCC-SLP If speech development were easy, children wouldn’t need speech-language pathologists.
But easy it is not. Speech production uses a set of arbitrary sounds and sound combinations that are based on an equally arbitrary set of rules (Kent, 1998, in Bernthal & Bankson, 1998). Unfortunately, children don’t always master these rules in the same way. Enter the need for speech assessment and time-consuming analysis and interpretation.