Speech Sound Disorders.
Conditions
Interventions
The intervention consists of phonological awareness training delivered in 10 sessions of 45 minutes each, held twice a week. Each session is divided into three parts:1. General phonological awareness
Sponsors
Esfahan University of Medical Sciences
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
5 Years to 7 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Participants must be aged between 5 and 7 years Poor Phonological Awareness Participants Must Score Less Than 40 Percent on at Least One Subtest of the Soleimani-Dastjerdi Phonological Awareness Assessment Package Which Includes Syllable Awareness Intra-Syllabic Awareness and Phonological Awareness Normal Oral Structure And Function Based On The Oral Mechanism Assessment From The Persian Version Of The Diagnostic Assessment Of Phonology And Phonetics P-DEAP Normal Hearing Based on Interviews with Parents and Medical Records Showing No More Than Three Colds in The Past Six Months No Concurrent Developmental Disorders Such As Cognitive or Language Disorders Based on Semi-Structured Parent Interviews Speech Sample Analysis and MLU Between 3 and 5 Words at the Developing Level Absence of Oral-Facial Anomalies or Genetic or Congenital Syndromes Based on Observation and Parent Interviews Participants Will Be Selected From the Speech Therapy Waiting List and Will Receive Supplementary Treatment During the Waiting Period Without Being Deprived of Necessary Services Children With Phonological Deficits Based on Diagnostic Screening and Phonological Tests From the Persian Version of the Diagnostic Assessment of Phonology and Phonetics P-DEAP Including Those With Phonological Delay or Consistent Phonological Disorder All Participants Must Be Monolingual and Speak Only Persian
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Unwillingness to Cooperate at Any Stage of the Study
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Percentage of Consonants Correct at the single-word level. Timepoint: Before the intervention, during the intervention (once every two sessions), and after the intervention(three times every other day). Method of measurement: The number of correctly produced consonants divided by the total number of produced consonants (including both correct and incorrect consonants).;The percentage of consonants correct in connected speech. Timepoint: At baseline (prior to the intervention) and after the intervention. Method of measurement: By dividing the number of correctly produced consonants by the total number of produced consonants in connected speech. | — |
Countries
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Contacts
Public ContactMaryam Malekian
Esfahan University of Medical Sciences
Outcome results
None listed