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Target selection criteria for intervention in speech sound disorders: the practice of portuguese SLTs
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Speech Sound Disorder (SSD) is one of the most prevalent diagnoses in early childhood. Children with SSD represent a heterogeneous group, which poses great challenges to the Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) when planning therapeutic intervention. Recently, the importance of combining traditional and new selection criteria to respond more effectively to children with SSD has been addressed. The traditional criteria present little or no scientific evidence and are based on the intuition and experience of the SLT. The newer criteria are guided by scientific evidence, based on linguistic aspects. This study aims to identify the target selection criteria used by Portuguese SLT with children with SSD. A cross-sectional survey was conducted in Portugal. The questionnaire used was adapted from the study of Brumbaugh and Smit (2013). The data were analysed using descriptive statistics. There were 128 respondents. The majority (96.1%) were females and over 70% of the respondents held a Bachelor’s degree and almost 40% finished their degree more than 15 years ago. Around 69% of them have specialized training in SSD. The most used target selection criteria are:“Phonological awareness in addition to intervening in speech sounds” (85.5%); “Phonological awareness to improve speech production” (84.4%); “Target sounds that are stimulable” (77.3%); “Intervention targets taking into account the child’s oromotor planning skills” (77%); “Target sounds with the greatest impact on intelligibility” (72.4%) and “Target sounds taking into account the order of acquisition expected in development” (71.1%). Despite the scientific evidence of the newer criteria and specialized training in SSD of the respondents of this study, the traditional criteria continue to be among the most used by Portuguese SLT. To guarantee the intervention's efficiency, SLT should focus more on using the new selection criteria into their practices to promote a better change in the children's phonological system. SSD; Intervention; Target Selection Criteria
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Speech Sound Disorder (SSD) Speech and Language Therapist (SLT)
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Costa, S., Patrício, B., Baptista, A. C., & Rodrigues, S. (2024). Target selection criteria for intervention in speech sound disorders: The practice of portuguese SLTs. 12th ESLA Congress of Speach and Language Therapy, 343. https://eslacongress.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/12TH-ESLA-Congress-Abstract-Book.pdf
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ESLA
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