This text explores what theoretical underpinnings are best suited to describing, classifying, and treating the wide range of developmental and acquired speech disorders encountered in the speech-language pathology clinic.

Martin J. Ball is Professor of Speech Language Pathology, specializing in clinical linguistics and phonetics, at Linköping University in Sweden. He has previously held positions in Wales, Ireland, and the US.

1. What is Phonology? 2. Speech Disorders 3. Theoretical Approaches to Phonology 1: phonemes and features 4. Theoretical Approaches to Phonology 2: the generative approach 5. Theoretical Approaches to Phonology 3: Processes, Government and Constraints 6. Problems in Clinical Phonology 7. Psycholinguistic Approaches to Phonology 8. The Role of Perception in Phonology 9. The Clinical Phonology of Prosody 10. Desiderata for a Clinical Phonology 11. Towards Clinical Phonologies 12. Informing Intervention