A lot of hot air?
Author: Deirdre Cosgrave with Jill Titterington
Magazine issue: Spring 09
Page numbers: 15-17
Date: 28 February 2009
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The academic consensus is that there is little – if any – good quality research to support the use of non-speech oral motor and respiratory exercises in treatment of speech sound difficulties in children. Despite this, many clinicians use these as part of an eclectic mix of evidence-based and non-evidence-based approaches. This article reports on an audit of sucking and blowing exercises in a language unit as part of an eclectic approach to children with moderate phonological / articulation disorder. The results of the audit are analysed, limitations acknowledged and tentative conclusions drawn which include the possible benefit of selective use of blowing exercises.
