Down syndrome and childhood apraxia of speech: matching a unique psycholinguistic profile to an effective treatment program
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Single-subject treatment experiments for speech impairment in Down syndrome; the object is a clinical intervention.
The dissertation evaluates speech treatments for people with Down syndrome, not research itself.
Clinical speech therapy experiments for Down syndrome; clinical domain intervention study.
Abstract
Three single subject experiments were conducted to explore the response by individuals with Down Syndrome (DS) to different treatments for the remediation of speech impairments. Although the speech impairment in DS is typically described as dysarthria, a growing body of research suggests that there may be concomitant childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) and phonological disorders that explain poor speech accuracy and intelligibility in these individuals. The appropriate treatment to remediate speech impairment in DS may depend upon each individual's psycholinguistic profile. Three single subject randomized experiments were conducted with participants ranging in age from 10-20 years. For each experiment, two treatment conditions were compared to a control condition: the experimental conditions addressed the underlying deficits associated with either CAS (a motor planning impairment) or Inconsistent Phonological Disorder (a phonological planning impairment). High intensity treatment was undertaken with each participant receiving a total of 18 treatment sessions in six to nine weeks. In each study, the results indicate improvement in speech accuracy but with varying response across participants to specific treatment approaches. Follow-up assessments with each participant demonstrate maintenance of learning over time. Each participant's specific response to treatment is discussed in relation to their psycholinguistic profile as revealed by their pre-treatment assessment results.
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The record
- Venue
- Open MIND
- Topic
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Field
- Environmental Science
- Canadian institutions
- —
- Funders
- Faculty of Medicine, McGill UniversityMcGill University
- Keywords
- Intelligibility (philosophy)ApraxiaDown syndromePhonological DisorderDysarthriaVoice-onset timeTypically developingMatching (statistics)Speech disorder
- Has abstract in OpenAlex
- yes