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Mass generalised learning applied to the problem of carry-over in articulation therapy

Avril Klaff
South African Journal of Communication Disorders | Journal of the South African Speech and Hearing Association: Vol 23, No 1 | a385 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajcd.v23i1.385 | © 2019 Avril Klaff | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 15 November 2016 | Published: 31 December 1976

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Avril Klaff, Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

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This study was designed to investigate Morehead and Johnson's hypothesis that mass generalised learning experience in therapy will eliminate carry-over problems. Four subjects who consistently misarticulated the /S/phoneme participated in an intensive six week therapy programme. Two experimental subjects were trained in the production of the entire category of sounds of which the target phoneme is a member. Two matched control subjects received traditional articulation therapy. Pre- and post-therapy measures included an articulation test, competence tests and spectrographic analysis. Sound production tasks and carry-over tasks were administered at regular intervals during therapy to assess generalisation to untrained contexts. Complete carry-over was evidenced by one experimental subject at the end of the sentence phase of therapy. The remaining three subjects demonstrated inconsistent carry-over at the conclusion of the therapy programme. It is suggested that a mass generalised learning procedure may offer an efficient approach to articulation therapy.

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