Effective Use of Auditory Bombardment as a Therapy Adjunct for Children With Developmental Language Disorders

Plante, Elena; Tucci, Alexander; Nicholas, Katrina; Arizmendi, Genesis D.; Vance, Rebecca

doi:10.1044/2017_lshss-17-0077

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“…We used a combination of single-subject and group techniques to analyze these data, following protocols of treatment research (Alt et al, 2014;Plante et al, 2014;Plante, Tucci, Nicholas, Arizmendi, & Vance, 2018). Specifically, we calculated individual treatment effect sizes for each participant using d, which we then combined to make grouplevel comparisons.…”

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Exploring Input Parameters in an Expressive Vocabulary Treatment With Late Talkers

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Mettler

Erikson

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J Speech Lang Hear Res

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Purpose The aims of this study were (a) to assess the efficacy of the Vocabulary Acquisition and Usage for Late Talkers (VAULT) treatment and (b) to compare treatment outcomes for expressive vocabulary acquisition in late talkers in 2 conditions: 3 target words/90 doses per word per session versus 6 target words/45 doses per word per session. Method We ran the treatment protocol for 16 sessions with 24 primarily monolingual English-speaking late talkers. We calculated a d score for each child, compared treatment to control effect sizes, and assessed the number of words per week children acquired outside treatment. We compared treatment effect sizes of children in the condition of 3 target words/90 doses per word to those in the condition of 6 target words/45 doses per word. We used Bayesian repeated-measures analysis of variance and Bayesian t tests to answer our condition-level questions. Results With an average treatment effect size of almost 1.0, VAULT was effective relative to the no-treatment condition. There were no differences between the different dose conditions. Discussion The VAULT protocol was an efficacious treatment that has the potential to increase the spoken vocabulary of late-talking toddlers and provides clinicians some flexibility in terms of number of words targeted and dose number, keeping in mind the interconnectedness of treatment parameters. Supplemental Material https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.11593323

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Exploring Input Parameters in an Expressive Vocabulary Treatment With Late Talkers

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“…The average treatment effect sizes for children increased substantially between studies (1.92 on average in Plante et al, 2014;7.61 on average in Meyers-Denman & . This increase in effect sizes from the Plante et al (2014) study has been replicated in Plante et al (2018) and Eidsvåg et al (2019) in which children's average treatment effect sizes were 3.75 and 6.7, respectively, when the variables of attention and variability were both incorporated into what we now call Enhanced Conversational Recast treatment (Meyers-Denman & . The effect sizes in this study (Sparse: d = 5.7; Dense: d = 6.8) are also in line with these previous studies.…”

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“…Instead, the results suggest that it is the clinician input, in proximity to the child's attempts, that is the likely mechanism of change in this treatment method. The lack of a statistical difference between the Sparse and Dense conditions likely reflects the effectiveness of the base treatment, Enhanced Conversational Recasting (Eidsvåg et al, 2019;Meyers-Denman & Plante, 2016;Plante et al, 2014Plante et al, , 2018. The primary effects on children's outcomes in this treatment appear to involve both input variability and child attention.…”

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“…We note here that the criteria used here to gauge treatment response is different than the criterion used in our previous studies (a d > 1.0; Eidsvåg et al, 2019;Meyers-Denman & Plante, 2016;Plante et al, 2014Plante et al, , 2018. We provide a justification for this change and a reanalysis of the number of treatment responders in this and the previous studies in Supplemental Material S1.…”

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“…Enhanced Conversational Recast treatment served as the dose form in the current study. This particular treatment has resulted in successful treatment outcomes in a number of recent studies (e.g., Eidsvåg, Plante, Oglivie, Privette, & Mailend, 2019;Encinas & Plante, 2016;Meyers-Denman & Plante, 2016;Plante, Tucci, Nicholas, Arizmendi, & Vance, 2018). Enhanced Conversational Recast treatment is based on traditional Conversational Recast treatment (e.g., Camarata & Nelson, 1992;Camarata, Nelson, & Camarata, 1994;Cleave et al, 2015) in which the child attempts the form targeted for treatment (spontaneously or after the clinician elicits its use) and the clinician restates the child's attempt using grammatically correct forms.…”

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Maximizing Treatment Efficiency in Developmental Language Disorder: Positive Effects in Half the Time

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Mettler

Tucci

et al. 2019

Am J Speech Lang Pathol

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Purpose When a behavioral treatment is generally efficacious, the central research questions shift to optimized dose delivery. In this study, we determine whether a validated treatment method can be made more effective or efficient by increasing the dose density employed. Method Twenty children were treated with Enhanced Conversational Recast methods to treat morphological errors. Half received 24 doses per session within a half hour (approximately 1 dose/1.25 min), and the other received the same number of doses within 15 min (approximately 1 dose/38 s). Generalization of morpheme use was probed throughout treatment and at a 6-week follow-up. Spontaneous use of treated morphemes was also tracked. Results Although the treatment was effective overall, there were no significant differences between treatment conditions on any of the outcome measures. Follow-up performance correlated significantly with performance at the end of the treatment period. Conclusion Minimal between-groups differences suggest that performance does not suffer when dose rates are compressed into half the time during treatment, making the high-density dose delivery method a more efficient delivery method. This could make time available within a treatment session to address other goals or allow for more classroom instructional time for the child. Supplemental Material https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.8968559

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Individual Versus Small Group Treatment of Morphological Errors for Children With Developmental Language Disorder

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Purpose This study examines the effects of enhanced conversational recast for treating morphological errors in preschoolers with developmental language disorder. The study assesses the effectiveness of this treatment in an individual or group ( n = 2) setting and the possible benefits of exposing a child to his or her partner's treatment target in addition to his or her own. Method Twenty children were assigned to either an individual ( n = 10) or group ( n = 10, 2 per group) condition. Each child received treatment for 1 morpheme (the target morpheme) for approximately 5 weeks. Children in the group condition had a different target from their treatment partner. Pretreatment and end treatment probes were used to compare correct usage of the target morpheme and a control morpheme. For children in the group condition, the correct usage of their treatment partner's target morpheme was also examined. Results Significant treatment effects occurred for both treatment conditions only for morphemes treated directly (target morpheme). There was no statistically significant difference between the treatment conditions at the end of treatment or at follow-up. Children receiving group treatment did not demonstrate significant gains in producing their partner's target despite hearing the target modeled during treatment. Conclusions This study provides the evidence base for enhanced conversational recast treatment in a small group setting, a treatment used frequently in school settings. Results indicate the importance of either attention to the recast or expressive practice (or both) to produce gains with this treatment. Supplemental Material https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.7859975

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Effective Use of Auditory Bombardment as a Therapy Adjunct for Children With Developmental Language Disorders

Abstract: https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.5960005.

Cited by 34 publications

References 42 publications

Exploring Input Parameters in an Expressive Vocabulary Treatment With Late Talkers

Exploring Input Parameters in an Expressive Vocabulary Treatment With Late Talkers

Maximizing Treatment Efficiency in Developmental Language Disorder: Positive Effects in Half the Time

Individual Versus Small Group Treatment of Morphological Errors for Children With Developmental Language Disorder

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