Directions and reflections

In this final chapter, Benjamin Munson, Suzanne Purdy and colleagues, Suze Leitão and Joan Rosenthal traverse a breadth of topics, including a rarely considered one in the context of child speech. It concerns sociophonetics, gender stereotyping and social indexing, and Munson (A51) approaches it with enthusiasm and empathy. Purdy, Fairgray and Asad (A52) provide an account of the important links between hearing and SSD, delivering expert guidance from an Audiology perspective. Leitão (A53) reflects on the art and science of clinical thinking, and the issues that can arise. And finally, and inspirationally, Rosenthal (A54) presents her key components of a practitioners’ survival kit.