Enhancing stimulability: a treatment program.
Recent research on stimulability and generalization suggests that treatment of nonstimulable sounds results in maximum treatment gains (Powell, Elbert, & Dinnsen, 1991). It has also been suggested, however, that nonstimulable sounds are more difficult to teach, especially to young children with very small phonetic inventories. In this article, we describe a treatment program designed to increase the size of the phonetic inventory by "teaching" stimulability. Application of the treatment approach is demonstrated in a case study.
Miccio
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Department of Communication Disorders, Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802, USA. awm4@psu.edu
Elbert
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D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007100:Imitative Behavior; D010700:Phonetics; D013064:Speech Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D013065:Speech Intelligibility; D013070:Speech Therapy