Speech Sound Disorder and Visual Biofeedback Intervention: A Preliminary Investigation of Treatment Intensity

Seminars in Speech & Language

Hitchcock, E. R., Swartz, M. T., et al. (2019).

Seminars in Speech & Language, 40(2), 124-137.

This systematic investigates the effect of visual biofeedback in individuals with speech sound disorders.

Montclair State University



January 1980 to July 2018

Published, peer-reviewed studies (not further specified)

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Results indicated a small, but statistically significant, positive relationship between treatment intensity and the efficacy of visual biofeedback in individuals with speech sound disorders. "This finding suggests that changes in speech behaviors are influenced by treatment intensity or dosage, with higher dose values providing additional opportunities for practice and, thus, improvement" (p. 132).