PURPOSE:
to provide relevant variable aspects in the therapeutic process of consonant clusters (CC) acquisition in children but maintains the CCV simplification.
METHODS:
participated in the study four children diagnosed with phonological disorders, aged 5:4 to 7:7, which used the strategy of compensatory lengthening, have [r] and [l] in the phonetic inventory and performed to simplify the CC. Children were subjected to different speech therapy, and from data obtained in the there were reviews of linguistic and extralinguistic variables relevant for therapy. The data were analyzed by using the VARBRUL program.
RESULTS:
the program selected the variable severity of the disorder as being relevant for the appropriate production, CC simplification and for the distortion of the CC liquid. It was highlighted the highest possibility of correct production of CCV when the subject is under phonetic therapy. The /d/ phoneme enhances the metathesis strategy. The replacement of the liquid was due to the variable subject and the kind of liquid forming the CC.
CONCLUSION:
the variable 'severity' is very relevant to the success of the therapy as well as to the use of strategies to repair the problem. It was also observed that children who were under different kinds of therapies had different results to each of the therapies and had better performance using the phonetic therapy.
Speech Therapy; Articulation Disorders; Speech Acoustics; Phonetics
