| Methods |
Randomised Controlled Trial |
| Participants |
27 participants aged 3;06 ‐ 5;06
21 males and 6 females participated, no SES characteristics are provided |
| Interventions |
Clinician administered phonological therapy with additional auditory discrimination task. Therapy delivered for 45 minutes a week over 6 weeks.
Experimental group had to identify correct and incorrect pronunciations of the same word
Traditional group had to discriminate between a minimal pair
The third group had to discriminate between a non minimal pair of words
10 children received an experimental auditory discrimination task
9 children received a traditional auditory discrimination task
8 children received a discrimination game not based on minimal pairs |
| Outcomes |
Auditory word discrimination test
Object naming speech sample
Outcomes excluded: /sh/ centroid |
| Notes |
The criteria stated that children had to be non‐stimulable to /sh/ however all but two children also had moderate or severe phonological delay as shown by CAPP |
| Risk of bias |
| Bias |
Authors' judgement |
Support for judgement |
| Allocation concealment (selection bias) |
Unclear risk |
B ‐ Unclear |
