Teaching speech sounds to young children using randomly ordered, variably complex task sequences

Percept Mot Skills. 2004 Oct;99(2):602-4. doi: 10.2466/pms.99.2.602-604.

Abstract

Three children, ages 4:8 to 5:11, were taught a speech sound using a randomly ordered variably complex task sequence (concurrent treatment), in which practice occurred in randomized easy-to-hard tasks. In an AB research design replicated across participants, the children quickly advanced to 60% accurate productions of the target speech sound and displayed generalization to untaught tasks.

MeSH terms

  • Child, Preschool
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Phonetics*
  • Reinforcement, Psychology
  • Speech / physiology*
  • Speech Production Measurement
  • Speech Therapy / methods*
  • Teaching / methods*
  • Verbal Behavior*