Do Phonemic Awareness Interventions Improve Speech in Preschool Children With Speech Sound Disorders?
EBP Briefs
Tambyraja, S. R., & McCauley, R. J. (2012).
EBP Briefs, 7(3), 1-8.
This systematic review investigates the effect of phonemic awareness interventions on the speech of preschool children with speech sound disorders (SSD).
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1998-2011
Experimental study designs; quasi-experimental study designs; single-participant experimental study designs
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"[Speech-language pathologists] should continue to assess phonemic awareness in children with speech sound disorders and incorporate some phonemic awareness goals when appropriate with these children as an adjunct rather than a replacement for interventions directly targeting speech production" (p. iii).
"Although both [phonemic awareness and speech sound production intervention] techniques are effective at increasing preschool children’s speech sound accuracy, there is insufficient evidence to suggest that [a speech sound disorder] intervention that includes a phonemic awareness approach will offer greater benefit than other speech sound disorder interventions with respect to improving speech" (p. iii).
