Complexity Approach - Regular Past Tense
Complexity Approach for Regular Past Tense Verbs: Van Horne, Amanda Jean Owen et al. “Do the Hard Things First: A Randomized Controlled Trial Testing the Effects of Exemplar Selection on Generalization Following Therapy for Grammatical Morphology.” Journal of speech, language, and hearing research: JSLHR vol. 60, 9 (2017): 2569-2588. doi: 10.1044/2017_JSLHR-L-17-0001
Minimal Pairs
Research has shown that three to five word pairs can facilitate generalization in children (Elbert, Powell & Swartzlander, 1991). The authors also reported that some children might require more minimal pairs words.
The SLP should aim for 100 practice trials of the target sounds per session (Sugden et al., 2018).
While minimal pairs therapy at word level only can be enough to facilitate generalization to untreated words in conversation (Elbert et al. 1990), you might decide to include practice at the phrase and/or sentence level if generalization is slow.
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