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- Title
A Randomized Trial of 12-Week Interventions for the Treatment of Developmental Phonological Disorder in Francophone Children.
- Authors
Rvachew, Susan; Brosseau-Lapré, Françoise
- Abstract
Purpose: This study was designed to test the relative efficacy of different combinations of intervention approaches when targeting speech production accuracy and phonological awareness skills. All children received individual speech therapy, a home program, and a small-group phonological awareness intervention. Method: Sixty-five 4-year-olds with a developmental phonological disorder received these intervention components in different combinations over 12 weeks, resulting in 4 groups: output-oriented individual intervention and articulation practice home program, output-oriented individual intervention and dialogic reading home program, inputoriented individual intervention and articulation practice home program, and input-oriented individual intervention and dialogic reading home program. Results: A significant interaction of the individual treatment condition and the home program condition was observed for 2 outcome measures: targeted feature match (which reflected changes in speech production accuracy for features and word shape structures that were targeted in therapy) and explicit phonological awareness skills. Conclusion: In this context, in which the children received a brief period of direct therapy and a home program component provided sequentially, the most effective strategy was to teach the parents to use treatment procedures at home that were congruent with the direct therapy component.
- Subjects
FRANCE; QUEBEC (Province); SPEECH therapy for children; PHONOLOGICAL awareness; EARLY medical intervention; HOME care services; TREATMENT effectiveness; ARTICULATION disorders; ANALYSIS of covariance; ANALYSIS of variance; CONFIDENCE intervals; PARENTING; PHONETICS; RESEARCH funding; SPEECH therapy; GROUP process; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2015, Vol 24, Issue 4, p637
- ISSN
1058-0360
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1044/2015_AJSLP-14-0056