The Marshalla Guide for SLPs

If your an SLP, in any setting, you know the name Pam Marshalla. She is one of the most influential speech-language pathologists in our field. I have referred to her work so many times when I felt stuck and her tips always helped me in treating difficult articulation cases. Unfortunately, we lost her 2015 and it was a tremendous loss, but lucky for us, her work lives on. Her latest accomplishment, The Marshalla Guide, was published this year and it is a valuable resource that every SLP should have on their bookshelf.

What I love most about this resource is how thorough it is. The book is full of research based methods of treatment of articulation and motor speech, as well as Pam's practical experience. She starts the book with the traditional Van Riper methods for articulation therapy, then further explores oral motor movement for speech production and specific phoneme production.

I haven't read the book cover to cover just yet, but I can tell you that it is a book I have referred to over and over again in the short time that I have had it. Every time I pick it up, I learn something. She covers tough topics like feeding, orofacial myofunctional method, and tongue ties, but it also offers insight to the things I do every day in treating articulation disorders in the schools. In my work with graduate students, I can see this being a book I will recommend them reading when they are stuck. It's organized and easy to read, also illustrated by her daughter, Shanti McGinley, who did a great job complimenting the book with her drawings.

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I was given a free copy of this book in exchange for my review. The opinions in this post are mine and all from the heart.