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Year: 2014 Vol. 18 Num. 3 - July/Sept - (12º)
DOI: 10.1055/s-0034-1376885
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Section:
Original Article
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Treatment Model in Children with Speech Disorders and Its Therapeutic Efficiency |
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Author(s): |
Luciana Barberena, Márcia Keske-Soares, Taís Cervi, Mariane Brandão
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Key words: |
speech - articulation disorders - speech language and hearing sciences - speech therapy - generalization |
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Abstract: |
Introduction: Speech articulation disorders affect the intelligibility of speech. Studies on therapeutic models show the effectiveness of the communication treatment.
Objective: To analyze the progress achieved by treatment with the ABAB-Withdrawal and Multiple Probes Model in children with different degrees of phonological disorders.
Methods: The diagnosis of speech articulation disorder was determined by speech and hearing evaluation and complementary tests. The subjects of this research were eight children, with the average age of 5:5. The children were distributed into four groups according to the degrees of the phonological disorders, based on the percentage of correct consonants, as follows: severe, moderate to severe, mild to moderate, and mild. The phonological treatment applied was the ABAB-Withdrawal and Multiple Probes Model. The development of the therapy by generalization was observed through the comparison between the two analyses: contrastive and distinctive features at the moment of evaluation and reevaluation.
Results: The following types of generalization were found: to the items not used in the treatment (other words), to another position in the word, within a sound class, to other classes of sounds, and to another syllable structure.
Conclusion: The different types of generalization studied showed the expansion of production and proper use of therapy-trained targets in other contexts or untrained environments. Therefore, the analysis of the generalizations proved to be an important criterion to measure the therapeutic efficacy.
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