Complexity approaches to intervention

Elise Baker, A. Lynn Williams

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Abstract

The complexity approach has a unique focus in that what is targeted in intervention may be as important as how it is targeted (Gierut, 2005). Attention is given to analyzing children's phonological systems in order to understand what children know about the adult phonological system and what they need to learn. Research findings from the past 20 years guide the careful selection of complex targets. Selected targets expose children to complex aspects of the phonological system, which in turn is predicted to facilitate generalization learning: the efficient widespread change in children's phonological knowledge. Although the efficacy of the approach has been established internationally across 22 published intervention studies, the clinical effectiveness of the approach remains to be examined.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInterventions for Speech Sound Disorders in Children
EditorsA. Lynn Williams, Sharynne McLeod, Rebecca J. McCauley
Place of PublicationU.S.
PublisherPaul H. Brookes Publishing
Pages95-115
Number of pages21
ISBN (Print)9781598570182
Publication statusPublished - 2010

Keywords

  • children
  • phonetics
  • language and languages
  • linguistics

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