Multiple Oppositions

Multiple Oppositions

• Population:
• Age: 26- 72 months
• Recommended for:
• Speech Delay
• Multiple sound errors
• Limited sound inventories
• Co-occuring language, speech, and/or reading issues

• Theoretical Background:

1. 1.  The function of the phonology to signal differences
   in meaning through contrastive phonemes
   
2. 
   

          2.  Selection of intervention targets from across a rule set that represent the function of the         phoneme collapse and are maximally different from each other in terms of place, manner, voicing 

• Dosage:
• Individual or group therapy 
• Twice a week for 30-45 minutes
• Could range from 21-42 sessions
• Based on Principles of: 
• Opportunities are provided for the child to discover the rule that is being trained
• Unusually focused input is incorporated to reduce the child’s search for the new contrast and reduce demands on attention and memory
• Opportunities for the child to produce new contrast in both focused and play activities
• Feedback – linguistic and communicative – with regard to semantic meaning of the production 
• Steps of the approach:
• 4 phases:

           1: Familiarization and Production of the Contrasts
           2: Production of the contrasts and interactive play
           3: Production of the contrasts with communicative contexts
           4: Conversational recasts 

• Materials Needed:
• Games
• Play
• 40,000 select words
• Picture Stimuli (board maker)

• Other Comments:
• Make sure to keep a data collection
• Approach grew out of a need for better, or different treatments, for speech sound disorder