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Articulation treatment for young children continues to rely heavily on operant and classical conditioning techniques embraced by behaviorists whose heyday has long since passed.
Rather than defend an outmoded and often dubious line of treatment, would it possibly be more fruitful to focus not on the modification of an individual's "disorder" (e.g., lisping) but rather on increasing the tolerance of the peers of children who experience such difficulties?
What a waste it is to focus on such things when the alternative is potentially so much better. Psychology has moved beyond Skinner...Why can't we?
Jamie Reilly
Lansdowne, PA
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