Therapeutic progress on subjects submitted to phonological therapy using the multiple oppositions approach

This work aims to analyze and compare the therapeutic progress shown in children submitted to the Multiple Oppositions Approach, stimulated in therapy with the same target sounds. Two children with phonological disorder participated in this case report, being a boy (S1) and a girl (S2), aged 4:2 and 4:11, respectively. The speech data were collected through phonological evaluation. As treatment, we used the Multiple Oppositions Approach during 25 sessions with the same target sounds, all belonging to fricatives classes. The substitutions and omissions of each child's phonological inventory were analyzed, as well as the occurrence of pre and post-therapy phonological processes. It was observed that the subject with more substitutions (S1) was the one with phonemes major acquisitions in the phonological inventory. S1 showed the highest occurrence of cases in his speech, both pre and post-therapy, which made the speech intelligible to the listener. The processes involving the class of liquids showed a higher percentage of occurrences, even after therapy. The Multiple Oppositions Approach showed an adequate progress of the treatment of these children with phonological disorder, providing a phonological inventory expansion and a reduction of phonological processes occurrence, although with differences regarding the evolution presented by each one.

Speech Therapy; Articulation Disorders; Generalization; Speech Disorders; Speech