A Comparison of Sound Production Treatment and Metrical Pacing Therapy for Apraxia of Speech: A Single-Case Experimental Design

CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrated that individuals in the chronic stages of AOS can benefit from both SPT and MPT, corroborating prior research on articulatory kinematic and rate and/or rhythm control treatment approaches. It contributes a comparison of two protocols for AOS with respect to whole word targets, intelligibility, and individual self-report of communicative participation changes. More participants showed a relative advantage of SPT over MPT. One individual reported communicative participation improvement after MPT.SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL: https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.23971929.PMID:37656150 | DOI:10.1044/2023_AJSLP-22-00302
Source: American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Source Type: research