TY - JOUR
T1 - A Complexity Approach to Promoting Within-and Cross-Language Generalization in Bilingual Children With Phonological Delays
AU - Irizarry-Pérez, Carlos D.
AU - Fabiano-Smith, Leah
AU - Martinez-Fisher, Andrea
N1 - Funding Information: This research was supported by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Advancing Academic Research Careers Award (recipient: Carlos D. Irizarry-Pérez was the recipient; mentor: Leah Fabiano-Smith). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors. The authors are grateful to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association for their support through the Advancing Academic Research Careers Award; Isabel and her family, who volunteered to participate in this research; and Jessica de Sanctis and Sofia Garcia, who assisted in data collection for this study. Funding Information: This research was supported by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Advancing Aca-demic Research Careers Award (recipient: Carlos D. Irizarry-Pérez was the recipient; mentor: Leah Fabiano-Smith). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors. The authors are grateful to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association for their support through the Advancing Academic Research Careers Award; Isabel and her family, who volunteered to participate in this research; and Jessica de Sanctis and Sofia Garcia, who assisted in data collection for this study. Publisher Copyright: © 2023 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
PY - 2023/7
Y1 - 2023/7
N2 - Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of generalization when treating complex targets with shared sounds in Spanish for a 5-year-old Spanish–English bilingual child with a phonological delay. Method: Two complex clusters (/fl/ and /fɾ/) and one additional target (/l/) were chosen for treatment. Intervention sessions were held in Spanish over the course of 1 year on a weekly basis. The accuracy of the treated and untreated targets was monitored using a single-subject case design and was assessed using visual analysis. Results: The accuracy of the production of treated targets increased upon administering the intervention. Accuracy also increased for untreated /fl/ targets in Spanish and English, /l/ in English, and untreated /fɾ/ clusters in Spanish. Conclusions: The results suggest that choosing complex targets consisting of shared sounds helps promote the generalization of skills within and across lan-guages. Future studies should examine the outcomes of selecting additional forms of complex targets for bilingual children.
AB - Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of generalization when treating complex targets with shared sounds in Spanish for a 5-year-old Spanish–English bilingual child with a phonological delay. Method: Two complex clusters (/fl/ and /fɾ/) and one additional target (/l/) were chosen for treatment. Intervention sessions were held in Spanish over the course of 1 year on a weekly basis. The accuracy of the treated and untreated targets was monitored using a single-subject case design and was assessed using visual analysis. Results: The accuracy of the production of treated targets increased upon administering the intervention. Accuracy also increased for untreated /fl/ targets in Spanish and English, /l/ in English, and untreated /fɾ/ clusters in Spanish. Conclusions: The results suggest that choosing complex targets consisting of shared sounds helps promote the generalization of skills within and across lan-guages. Future studies should examine the outcomes of selecting additional forms of complex targets for bilingual children.
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U2 - 10.1044/2023_LSHSS-22-00128
DO - 10.1044/2023_LSHSS-22-00128
M3 - Article
C2 - 37099754
SN - 0161-1461
VL - 54
SP - 799
EP - 814
JO - Language, speech, and hearing services in schools
JF - Language, speech, and hearing services in schools
IS - 3
ER -