Is a combination of speech and/or language therapy methods or singular speech sound treatment more effective in the treatment of speech sound disorders?
Searches
CINAHL
ERIC
PsycINFO
Types of study to be included
Inclusion: peer reviewed journal articles with pre and post data, must have control group.
Exclusion: studies with no control, non peer reviewed articles, commentaries, systematic reviews, non-intervention studies.
Condition or domain being studied
Speech sound disorders (may be articulation or phonological disorders). Excluding motor speech disorders
Participants/ population
Including: Children 3-12 years old with speech sound disorders of any severity, may present with co-morbid language delay/disorders.
Excluding: Children with genetic disorders, organic or structural speech disorders, children with autism, intellectual disability, hearing impairment, children who are stuttering.
Intervention(s), exposure(s)
Inclusion: combination therapy, including language, literacy, speech therapy methods via any service delivery.
Exclusion: non combination/single therapy types, non speech pathology interventions e.g. drug therapy, osteopathy etc.
Comparator(s)/ control
Inclusion: single speech and language therapy methods.
Exclusion: any combination of methods.
Outcome(s)
Primary outcomes
Speech intelligibility improvement.
Secondary outcomes
Language or literacy outcomes, functional outcomes etc.
Data extraction, (selection and coding)
Selection of studies:
- Will be decided on according to PICO format.
- All synonyms of search terms will be entered into 3 search engines.
- Final yield will be saved into EndNote.
- Duplicates will beremoved electronically, and by hand,
- Selection criteria will be devised,
- 2 reviewers will independently apply the selection criteria to final library of abstracts,
- 2 reviewers will meet to discuss included and excluded abstracts,
- Discrepancies will be treated by consultation with 3rd party or by obtaining full text of articles,
Coding- Data to be extracted:
- Population/Demographics,
- Methods,
- Quality assessment ratings,
- Intervention details e.g. length of treatment, setting etc,
- Comparator details ,
- Outcomes (speech and language, literacy).
Risk of bias (quality) assessment
The Downs and Black quality assessment tool will be applied independently by two researchers. This will affect the planned synthesis by determining the method of anaylses.
Strategy for data synthesis
Unconfirmed at this stage. It is planned that aggregate data will be used in meta-analysis if quality/design of studies allows for this.
Analysis of subgroups or subsets
None planned.
Dissemination plans
- Planned to be submitted to appropriate Speech and Language Pathology journal.
- Presentation at Eastern Health research forum.
- Presentation to Research Training Scheme participants.
- Submission to Speech Pathology Australia conference.
Contact details for further information
Venetia Su
5/184 Wattle Valley Rd
Camberwell
VIC 3124
Australia
venetiasu@gmail.com
Organisational affiliation of the review
Eastern Health
Review team
Ms Venetia Su, Eastern Health Ms Lauren Speed, Eastern Health
Anticipated or actual start date
11 July 2012
Anticipated completion date
14 December 2012
Funding sources/sponsors
None
Conflicts of interest
None known
Language
English
Country
Australia
Subject index terms status
Subject indexing assigned by CRD
Subject index terms
Articulation Disorders; Child; Child Language; Child, Preschool; Humans; Language Disorders; Language Therapy
Date of registration in PROSPERO
05 September 2012
Date of publication of this revision
08 November 2012
Stage of review at time of this submission
Started
Completed
Preliminary searches
No
Piloting of the study selection process
Formal screening of search results against eligibility criteria
Data extraction
Risk of bias (quality) assessment
Data analysis
Prospective meta-analysis
PROSPERO This information has been provided by the named contact for this review. CRD has accepted this information in good faith and registered the review in PROSPERO. CRD bears no responsibility or liability for the content of this registration record, any associated files or external websites.
