This study wanted to search the progress therapeutic data about a group of children with phonological disorder, as well as to characterize the demand of subjects, who were treated in a Speech Language Pathology’s school-clinic, from March to September 2009. The goal of this profile has been to characterize this demand about gender, age, number of sessions, number and type of phonological processes presented at the beginning and end of therapy, and conduct. Twelve children participated in this study. They was both gender, with ages between five and eight years old, who had individually treatment based on method PROMPT and Contrastive approach. Four phonological evaluations was realized, before starting treatment, with a time interval of two months between them, being an initial, two intermediate and final one. In evaluations, children should nominate 34 figures representing vocabularies containing all possible phonemic of Portuguese. It was made a traditional phonological analysis and a verification of the corresponding phonological processes. The results have indicated that was a predominance of males and the main age was six years. The most common phonological processes in the first evaluation were cluster reduction, liquid simplification and simplification final consonant simplification. There was a decrease at the phonological processes mean number when it was compared to the first and last evaluation. As conduct, five children were discharged, four had remained at treatment after fourth evaluation and three children had shutdown/withdrawal. It is considered that the use of the individual speech-language pathology therapy with children based on the Contrastive approach and PROMPT method provides significant and rapid progress at phonological disorders.
Child Language; Speech-Language Pathology; Speech Therapypy
