There is no substantive evidence to support NSOMTs as interventions for children with developmental speech sound disorders.

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Biofeedback in the form of the visual display from the monitor of a real-time spectrograph was presented to a 10-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl who had been unable to attain correct production of /r/ despite years of treatment. Both perceptual ratings and acoustic measures were made of the clients' productions of /r/ before and after treatment with the spectrograph. The results indicated that children and adolescents can use this type feedback to attain correct production of /r/ when other methods have failed. Potential reasons for the success of this approach are discussed.

An adult who was not able to produce singleton consonantal [r] or any of the r-colored vowels correctly (although he could produce some consonant clusters containing [r]) was enrolled in a treatment program for remediation of these sounds. When, after 17 therapy sessions, he was still unable to produce any of these sounds accurately, a real-time speech spectrograph was introduced to provide visual feedback. Within two sessions, the client was able to produce [] correctly. We were then able to use his production of [] to obtain a correct [r]. The data indicate that this type of biofeedback can be useful for eliciting correct production of [].

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