This study investigated the effect of the administration of frequent and infrequent probe lists on generalization with four articulation disordered children (ages 3:10 to 5:8). Results indicated that frequency of probe list administration did not produce any predictable effect on the extent of generalization or the occurrence of a practice effect.…

Twelve grade school children who were unable to imitate correctly the three /r/ allophones in 40 stimulus items during baseline participated in a study designed to determine if training on any one specific /r/ allophone would result in transfer to other /r/ allophones without specific training. (Author)

This article describes a treatment program for a child with a speech impairment, which focused on increasing the size of the phonetic inventory by "teaching" stimulability. Application of the treatment approach is demonstrated in a case study. (Author/DB)

This response to Fey (EC 604 058) discusses the use of the term "phonological" to describe disordered speech patterns and suggests that phonological disorders include both phonetic and phonemic error types. Describing errors as either phonetic or phonemic is seen to lead to differential treatment procedures. (Author/DB)

This study, which examined the number of minimal-word-pair exemplars necessary for 19 phonologically impaired children (ages 3-6) to meet a generalization criterion, found substantial variability across subjects, though generalization usually occurred following a small number of exemplars. No relationship was found between specific sounds and the…

Single-word and conversation samples were analyzed for 10 phonologically disordered children (ages 3-5), before and after treatment and 3 months later. Results suggest that, for most of the children, there were system changes in both single words and in conversational speech. (Author/JDD)