Self-Supervised App-Based Speech Training for Children With Speech Sound Disorder-A Single-Case Experimental Design Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

For children with speech sound disorder (SSD), speech intervention often involves a considerable amount of home-training, to achieve high-enough training frequency to promote speech change. A digital speech-training app has been developed that could serve as a cost-effective means of providing accessible intervention to children with SSD.

Aims

To evaluate whether self-supervised home-training with the app Pop2TalkNordic can expedite more target-like speech for children with SSD and to explore children's experiences of using the app.

Methods and procedures

Four 4-6-year-old Swedish children with SSD participated in a single-case experimental design study, with a multiple-baseline across-subjects design. The children's production of target error patterns was

SUBMITTER: Strombergsson S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12670065 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature