Digital adaptation of the Initial Speech Intervention Program for children with Speech Sound Disorder and its comparison to traditional materials

• Grant number: 21/14269-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: March 01, 2022
• End date: December 31, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Speech Therapy
• Principal Investigator: Haydée Fiszbein Wertzner
• Grantee: Amanda Partezani Megnis
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Medicina (FM). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This study approaches therapeutical intervention in one of the most commons developmental disorders, the Speech Sound Disorder. Formerly called Fonological Disorder, it is related to ones difficulty to produce speech, what interferes in speech intelligibility or gets in the way of sending a message through verbal communication. It is characterized by the inadequate use of the languages phonological rules. The Initial Phonological Intervention Program (PROIFI) is composed of twelve sessions of intervention and its goal is to awake the child’s hearing perception, articulatory self awareness and all the phonological rules of the Brazilian Portuguese. This program aims a pre set global stimulation of the child’s phonological system, regardless of its individual processes. Considering Speech Sound Disorders high occurrence and the increasing search for telehealth modality of speech language pathology services, the goal of this study is to adapt PROIFIs traditional activities to a digital modality and compare the outcomes of children’s achievements with paper or digital resources. (AU)