Teaching speech sounds to young children using randomly ordered, variably complex task sequences.
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.
Skelton
Steven L
SL
Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Studies, California State University, Fresno, 93740-8022, USA. sskelton@csufresno.edu
Funk
Tracy E
TE
D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology; D013060:Speech / Q000502:physiology*; D013068:Speech Production Measurement; D013070:Speech Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D014705:Verbal Behavior