PURPOSE: to check the generalization to non used items during treatment (other words) obtained in the three different models of therapy in subjects with different degrees of phonological disorder severity. METHODS: the studied group was composed by twenty-one subjects, eleven males and ten females, with average age when of the beginning of treatment 5:7. Speech data were analyzed through the performance of the phonological assessment. After the phonological assessment, the percentage of correct consonants proposed by Shriberg & Kwiatkowski (1982) was calculated and the subjects were then classified in the degrees of phonological disorder severity: severe, moderate-severe, mild-moderate and mild disorder. Six subjects were submitted to the Modified Cycles Model, eight to the ABAB-Withdrawal and Multiple Probes Model and seven to the Modified Maximum Opposition Model. A comparison was made on the generalization to non used items during treatment (other words) among three models of therapy within each degree of phonological disorder severity. RESULTS: Among the subjects with severe, moderate-severe and mild disorder, three subjects that presented the major generalization to non used items during treatment, all treated with ABAB-Withdrawal and Multiple Probes Model. Of the subjects with mild-moderate disorder, were treated with the Modified Maximum Opposition Model those that showed the major generalization. CONCLUSION: all the subjects showed gains in the phonological system and as for the generalization to non used items during treatment (other words), but ABAB-Withdrawal and Multiple Probes and Modified Maximum Opposition Models were more effective.
Speech Therapy; Generalization, Response; Speech; Speech Disorders
