Intervention for children with word-finding difficulties: a parallel group randomised control trial
Wendy Best1, Lucy Mari Hughes1, Jackie Masterson2
1a Division of Psychology & Language Sciences , University College London , London , UK.
Purpose:
The study investigated the outcome of a word-web intervention for children diagnosed with word-finding difficulties (WFDs).
Method:
Twenty children age 6-8 years with WFDs confirmed by a discrepancy between comprehension and production on the Test of Word Finding-2, were randomly assigned to intervention (n = 11) and waiting control (n = 9) groups. The intervention group had six sessions of intervention which used word-webs and targeted children's meta-cognitive awareness and word-retrieval.
Result:
On the treated experimental set (n = 25 items) the intervention group gained on average four times as many items as the waiting control group (d = 2.30). There were also gains on personally chosen items for the intervention group. There was little change on untreated items for either group.
Conclusion:
The study is the first randomised control trial to demonstrate an effect of word-finding therapy with children with language difficulties in mainstream school. The improvement in word-finding for treated items was obtained following a clinically realistic intervention in terms of approach, intensity and duration.
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