Phonological intervention in Greek-speaking preschoolers with speech sound disorders: Implementing phonological similarity and density.
Purpose: The study examined speech gains in three bilectal Cypriot-Greek speaking children with speech sound disorders. The study is based on theoretical frameworks that are on par with word-level characteristics and is motivated by the sparsity of cross-language studies in speech sound disorder int...
| Published in: | International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 360 - 374 |
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| Format: | pictorial research tables/charts randomized controlled trial Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Apr2026
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