Non-Speech Oral Motor Treatment for Children With Developmental Speech Sound Disorders
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Lee, A. S. -Y., & Gibbon, F. E. (2015).
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 3, CD009383.
<div>This systematic review investigates the effects of non-speech oral motor treatments (NSOMT) on speech outcomes (e.g., articulation, speech intelligibility, speech physiology, adverse effect) in children and adolescents, 3-16 years old, with developmental speech sound disorders.</div>
The Cochrane Collaboration
From database inception to April 2014
<div>Randomized controlled trials and quasi-randomized controlled trials</div>
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<div>"The three included studies were small in scale and had a number of serious methodological limitations.... Currently no strong evidence suggests that [non-speech oral motor treatments] NSOMTs are an effective treatment or an effective adjunctive treatment for children with developmental speech sound disorders" (p. 2).</div>
