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The Evaluation of Home Based Speech Therapy for Language Delayed Pre‐School Children in an Inner City Area
Author(s) -
STEVENSON PAM,
BAX MARTIN,
STEVENSON JIM
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
international journal of language and communication disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.101
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1460-6984
pISSN - 1368-2822
DOI - 10.3109/13682828209012227
Subject(s) - psychology , speech therapy , developmental psychology , language development , inner city , control (management) , treatment and control groups , language disorder , audiology , medicine , psychiatry , cognition , management , economic geography , pathology , economics
Summary This study reports a controlled trial of home based speech therapy for children with delayed language development living in an inner city area. Details of the six month therapy are given. Good parental cooperation was achieved. Both the experimental and control groups made significant gains over the six month period and in only one measure had the experimental group done better than the control group. The factors are discussed that would mitigate against these children attending clinics regularly. The study emphasizes the difficulties inherent in assessing therapy and stresses the need for adequate controls in carrying out such work.