PHONOLOGICAL TRADITIONAL APPROACHES TO ARTICULATION THERAPY - A RETROSPECTIVE GROUP COMPARISON/

A retrospective design was used to compare the relative efficacy of tr aditional and phonological approaches in the treatment of children wit h multiple articulation disorders. Nineteen children received evaluati on and therapy based on a traditional paradigm and 17 children receive d phonologically based evaluation and treatment procedures. Results in dicated that children in the phonological group showed significantly g reater improvement in a significantly shorter period of time than chil dren in the traditional group.