None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
This project will investigate the efficacy of providing cognitive flexibility and rule abstraction therapy to six children with atypical phonology at age three, an age at whcih many children are referred to speech pathologists. It is hypothesised that therapy will lead to improvements in cognitive flexibility and rule abstraction, phonology and phonological awareness.
Interventions
Each participant will attend 2 baseline sessions then 16 therapy sessions and a further 2 sessions to collect post-therapy data. Each therapy session will consist of games which focus on rule abstraction and cognitive flexibility.
a) Therapy sessions will be held twice weekly with each session lasting approximately 45 minutes. Therapy will last for 8 weeks.
b) Sessions will be individualised with the child and parent. Sessions will be administered by a Speech Pathology Honours student. c) Games
Each participant will attend 2 baseline sessions then 16 therapy sessions and a further 2 sessions to collect post-therapy data. Each therapy session will consist of games which focus on rule abstraction and cognitive flexibility. a) Therapy sessions will be held twice weekly with each session lasting approximately 45 minutes. Therapy will last for 8 weeks. b) Sessions will be individualised with the child and parent. Sessions will be administered by a Speech Pathology Honours student. c) Games will consist of puzzles, book sharing, play with toys such as farm animals which are familiar and appropriate for three year old children. Each baseline session will last for approximately 45 minutes, and be held within the same week. During the post-therapy session data will be collected on cognitive flexibility, rule abstraction, phonology and phonological awareness.
Sponsors
Curtin University
Study design
Allocation
Non-randomised trial
Primary purpose
Treatment
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
36 Months to 47 Months
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Six participants from a larger longitudinal study will be invited to participate in the intervention study. All participants must be aged between 3;0 and 3;11 at the commencement of intervention, and have made more than 10 atypical errors on the Toddler Phonology Test when assessed at the age of 2.
Exclusion criteria
Participants will have hearing within normal limits, and have not attended formal speech and language therapy since being assessed.
Outcome results
None listed