Broader Context Interventions

Metaphonological "Metaphon" Intervention

phonological awareness followed by production of contrasting sounds and minimally paired words

Population of Metaphon intervention

children with delayed/disordered speech AND literacy skills

How many phases does metaphon have?

2

Metaphon phase 1

- most important

- increases knowledge and interest in properties of sounds and their contrastive nature

Levels of metaphon phase 1

1. concept level

2. sound level

3. phoneme level

4. word level

Metaphon phase 2

develops the child's communicative awareness

Naturalistic intervention approach

recasts of child productions during naturalistic activities

Tiers of naturalistic approach

1. improve overall speech intelligibility

2. improve accuracy of individual speech sounds

Target population of naturalistic approach

- severe SSD

- profoundly compromised intelligibility

- may not be ready for/compliant with traditional service delivery

Natural recasts

corrective feedback given in a naturalistic manner without requiring imitation

PROMPT

motor-phonemes and lexicon priorities are selected to work on broad language-based, long term communication goals

NSOMEs

any treatment technique that does not require the child to produce a speech sound but is used to indirectly influence the development of speaking abilities