The Complexity Approach to Phonological Treatment: How to Select Treatment Targets
Issue Date
2018-07-05Author
Storkel, Holly L.
Publisher
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
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Article
Article Version
Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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Copyright © 2018 Holly L. Storkel. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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PURPOSE
There are a number of evidence-based treatments for preschool children with phonological disorders (Baker & McLeod, 2011). However, a recent survey by Brumbaugh and Smit (2013) suggests that speech-language pathologists are not equally familiar with all evidence-based treatment alternatives, particularly the complexity approach. The goal of this clinical tutorial is to provide coaching on the implementation of the complexity approach in clinical practice, focusing on treatment target selection.METHOD
Evidence related to selecting targets for treatment based on characteristics of the targets (i.e., developmental norms, implicational universals) and characteristics of children's knowledge of the targets (i.e., accuracy, stimulability) is reviewed. Free resources are provided to aid clinicians in assessing accuracy and stimulability of singletons and clusters. Use of treatment target selection and generalization prediction worksheets is illustrated with 3 preschool children.RESULTS
Clinicians can integrate multiple pieces of information to select complex targets and successfully apply the complexity approach to their own clinical practice.CONCLUSION
Incorporating the complexity approach into clinical practice will expand the range of evidence-based treatment options that clinicians can use when treating preschool children with phonological disorders.
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Supplemental Material for this article:Supplemental Material S1: https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.6007562KU ScholarWorks Supplemental Material: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/24767
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Storkel, H. L. (2018). The complexity approach to phonological treatment: how to select treatment targets. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 49(3), 463–481. doi:10.1044/2017_LSHSS-17-0082
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