The primary aim of this study is to develop software as a tool in speech and language therapy for the treatment of children (Portuguese and English) with phonologically based Speech Sound Disorders (SSD). Further, this project aims to test the effectiveness of this approach with two groups of preschool and school aged children with phonologically based SSD, with one group consisting of European Portuguese (EP) speakers and one group of British English (BE) speakers. Performance across the two groups will be compared. The total duration of the project will be 30 month.
The Table to Tablet (T2T) project aims to develop software as a tool in speech and language therapy for the treatment of children (Portuguese and English) with phonologically based Speech Sound Disorders (SSD). Further, this project aims to test the effectiveness of this approach with two groups of children aged between 3 years and 6 months and 6 years and 6 months with phonologically based Speech Sound Disorders (SSD). One group consists of European Portuguese (EP) speakers and one group of British English (BE) speakers. Each group should include 20 children with the referred criteria and the performance across the two groups will be compared. The total duration of the project will be 30 month (software development over the first 12 months and an intervention study during following 18 months). The T2T team includes 3 Speech and Language Therapists and 3 engineers/researchers plus a designer that will develop the T2T material.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
22
Phonological therapy consists of a combination of phonological awareness activities, auditory and discrimination and auditory bombardment activities. This activities will be based on table top materials. The items used in the intervention will be based on the child's target speech production goals. This intervention will include the following areas: * Auditory Bombardment; * Auditory and discrimination; * Letter-sound knowledge; * Phoneme identity and phoneme matching; * Blending; * Segmentation; * Rhyme; * Phoneme manipulation.
Phonological therapy consists of a combination of phonological awareness activities, auditory and discrimination and auditory bombardment activities. This activities will be based on digital materials presented on a tablet. The items used in the intervention will be based on the child's target speech production goals. This intervention will include the following areas: * Auditory Bombardment; * Auditory and discrimination; * Letter-sound knowledge; * Phoneme identity and phoneme matching; * Blending; * Segmentation; * Rhyme; * Phoneme manipulation.
Aveiro's University
Aveiro, Portugal
Percentage of Consonants Correct
Calculation of the percentage of the correct produced consonants
Time frame: one year
Parental Reports
Questionnaire focused on: speech improvement; enjoyment of therapy; effect of therapy on their understanding of their child.
Time frame: one and a half year
Intelligibility Score
How well a client's speech is understood by other individuals, i.e. understandability of speech.
Time frame: one year
Percentage of occurence of phonological processes
Calculations of the percentage of occurence of phonological processes
Time frame: one year
Generalisation Score
Generalization probe of the trained phonological process to five non-intervention words.
Time frame: one year
Phonetic Inventory
List of produces consonants
Time frame: one year
Percentage of Correct Vowels
Calculation of the percentage of the correct produced vowels
Time frame: one year
Percentage of Phonemes Correct
Calculation of the percentage of the correct produced phonemes
Time frame: one year
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