Williams #11
A. Lynn Williams (2000) #11
Williams, A. (2000). Multiple oppositions: Theoretical foundations for an
alternative contrastive intervention approach. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 9, 282-288.
TAP
The topic of this article was about the different phonological treatment approaches. The approaches included were the multiple oppositions approach, the minimal pairs approach, and naturalistic speech intelligibility training. Each approach was discussed and the protocol for each was discribed. This article is intended for students and speech language pathologists. Specifically, those that are interested in phonological disorders or are providing intervention services to children with phonological disorders. The purpose of the article was to publish the findings of a case study.
Claims
The following claims were made by the author:
1. Constructs of broad training and systemic intevention in the motivation of a multiple opposition approach to phonological intervention encompass larger treatment sets of multiple phonemic contrasts and provide intervention across a broader spectrum of a child’s error pattern, rule, or phoneme collapse.
2. The multiple opposition approach allows the child to make connections about his/her phonologic strategies with what needs to be learned and be able to revise the strategies based on the confrontation of the new and focused phonologic information.
Evidence
The author presented a study to support her claims regarding the multiple opposition approach. She also cited other articles/studies that she published as well as articles/studies about the other intervention approaches for phonological disorders.
Connections
Text-to-Self: I have no experience with the multiple oppostions model. Prior to this article and the class discussions about treatment, I did not know what the multiple oppisions approach/protocol was.
Text-to-Text: I don’t recall ever reading a text/article about this approach until reading the previous article. This article connects to that article in that they are both about the multiple opposition approach and are by the same article.
Text-to-World: It is important for praciticing clinicians to have an understanding of the ideas behind the multiple oppositions approach. The author claimed that this appraoch is most beneficial for clients with a severe-profound phonological disorder. This is because these clients most likely have a lot of phonemic collapses. This is important to know so that the best intervention appraoch is chosen and system-wide occurs.
