{"id":448,"date":"2019-05-16T12:57:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T12:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/forward-thinking\/?page_id=448"},"modified":"2019-05-16T12:59:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T12:59:38","slug":"overcoming-childhood-speech-sound-disorders","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/forward-thinking\/spring-2019\/overcoming-childhood-speech-sound-disorders\/","title":{"rendered":"Overcoming Childhood Speech Sound Disorders"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_450\" class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/forward-thinking\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/05\/040819_5035_CHSS-Communications-Sciences-Disorders-Elaine-Hitchcock.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/forward-thinking\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/05\/040819_5035_CHSS-Communications-Sciences-Disorders-Elaine-Hitchcock.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Elaine Hitchcock works with a student in her Clinical Biofeedback Laboratory.\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elaine Hitchcock works with a student in her Clinical Biofeedback Laboratory.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>While most children outgrow common speech sound disorders \u2014 such as producing a \u201cw\u201d for an \u201cr\u201d \u2014 others persist in making speech sound errors, which can create academic and social issues that can persist for years. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Clinical Biofeedback Laboratory founder <strong>Elaine Hitchcock<\/strong> is working to change that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cSpeech sound disorder in childhood poses a barrier to academic and social participation, with potentially lifelong consequences for educational and occupational outcomes,\u201d says Hitchcock, an associate professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">She recently received a $271,000 sub-award for the first year of a five-year, $1.4 million collaboration with colleagues at New York University and Syracuse University for a study that will advance both the understanding of speech production as well as the remediation of residual speech errors in school-aged children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Funded by the National Institutes of Health, Hitchcock\u2019s project \u201cBiofeedback \u2013 enhanced treatment for speech sound disorder\u201d will meet a public health need by conducting the first randomized controlled trial that compares the efficacy and efficiency of speech intervention with and without real-time visual biofeedback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIt will also test the hypothesis that the intervention efficacy can be optimized when biofeedback technology is selected to offset the learner\u2019s primary deficit,\u201d Hitchcock says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The project will employ both undergraduate and graduate students, who will work with Hitchcock in the Clinical Biofeedback Lab testing children up to age 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While most children outgrow common speech sound disorders \u2014 such as producing a \u201cw\u201d for an \u201cr\u201d \u2014 others persist in making speech sound errors, which can create academic and social issues that can persist for years. 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