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BEHAVIORAL TREATMENT OF CHILDREN WITH PHONOLOGICAL DISORDER: THE EFFICACY OF VOCAL IMITATION AND SUFFICIENT‐RESPONSE‐EXEMPLAR TRAINING
Author(s) -
Eikeseth Svein,
Nesset Rannveig
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal of applied behavior analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.1
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1938-3703
pISSN - 0021-8855
DOI - 10.1901/jaba.2003.36-325
Subject(s) - imitation , articulation (sociology) , psychology , context (archaeology) , manner of articulation , audiology , multiple baseline design , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , social psychology , medicine , intervention (counseling) , paleontology , psychiatry , politics , political science , law , biology
This study examined whether sufficient‐response‐exemplar training of vocal imitation would result in improved articulation in children with phonological disorder, and whether improved articulation established in the context of vocal imitation would transfer to other verbal classes such as object naming and conversational speech. Participant 1 was 6 years old and attended first grade in a regular public school. Participant 2 was 5 years 4 months old and attended a public kindergarten. Both participants had normal hearing and no additional handicaps. A multiple baseline design across behaviors (target sounds or blends) was employed to examine whether the vocal imitation training resulted in improved articulation. Results showed that both participants improved articulation once training was implemented, and that the improved articulation transferred from vocal imitation to more natural speech such as object naming and conversational speech. Improvement established during training was maintained posttraining and at a 6‐month follow‐up.