Articulation and phonology treatment Flashcards
What factors inform goal setting?
Evidence for treatment, diagnosis/prognosis, sex, SES, positive family history, language development, non-verbal IQ
What does articulation therapy target?
Learning how to produce new sound + articulating new sound in spontaneous speech by automatisation
What does therapy for phonological impairment target?
Function of sounds, contrasting sounds relate to difference in meaning, need to make contrasts to avoid misunderstandings
How to maintain motivation in articulation therapy?
Games, stickers, varied rate of reinforcement frequency, start/finish session with success
Practical tips to help elicit correct placement (5)
Checking voicing, shaping from other sounds, describing, WI easier than WF, reduce cognitive load by practicing in open syllables, stressed syllables and familiar words
Practical tips for carry over (6)
Fill in sentences/stories, rapid-fire questions to promote naturalness, reading aloud, rhyming, riddles, story-telling
What are the possible areas of breakdown for phonological delay and (consistent) phonological disorder
- Auditory discrimination (hearing the difference)
- Faulty phonological representations (words stored with insufficient detail, ?pSTM)
- Reduced linguistic knowledge (underdeveloped rule abstraction leading to atypical realisation rules)
- ‘Stuck’ using old rules because of continual access to stored routines
What are the 4 types of phonological contrasts?
- Minimal pairs - error is contrasted with one target sound - sounds differing by one distinctive features (voice/place/manner)
- Maximal opposition pairs - target sound contrasted with an independent comparison the child can produce - sounds differing in all 3 dimensions
- Many contrasts within a phonological error pattern - eg. for final consonant deletion pie/pipe/pine/pile/pies
- Multiple oppositions - targets more than a single contrast pair based on phoneme collapse - multiple contrastive pairings of the child’s error with several target sounds
What is minimal pair phonological contrast therapy? (5)
- Cognitive re-organisation of the child’s sound system
- Highlights contrasts in sounds features rather than accurate production
- Emphasise important of sounds for effective communication
- Re-organisation leads to generalisation
- 80% children respond positively to this therapy
What materials are required for phonological contrast therapy?
Specific set of word cards
Games
What are the steps of phonological contrast therapy?
- Familiarisation (tell them what they’re learning and label pictures)
- Phoneme discrimination (listen and point/sort)
- Single word production - imitation to spontaneous speech (‘you be the teacher’ to SP saying nothing)
- Production training in connected speech (set phrases, extend to longer sentences
What is metaphon?
Use to increase metalinguistic analysis by analysing similiarities/differences in sounds, concepts of time, place and manner
New phase before phonological contrast therapy
What is PACT? (Parents and Children Together)
Rhyming auditory bombardment, auditory input cloze, minimal pairs activities
What is whole language intervention?
Talking about how words are similar and different
What is pattern therapy?
For phonological disorders, to target rule derivation pattern recognition