title: Enhancing stimulability: a treatment program.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Communication Disorders, Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802, USA. awm4@psu.edu
authors.forename: A W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Miccio
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Elbert
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007100:Imitative Behavior; D010700:Phonetics; D013064:Speech Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D013065:Speech Intelligibility; D013070:Speech Therapy