Target Selection Is a Critical Piece to Beginning Treatment for Children

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Essay

Target selection is a critical piece to beginning treatment for children with speech sound disorders. There are 5 important factors to consider. Choose four of these factors and discuss how each one affects target selection.

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Definitions:

Interpersonal Interventions

Actions taken to improve or influence personal relationships or interactions between individuals.

Psychodrama

A psychotherapeutic technique in which patients act out events from their lives, allowing them to express and process emotions.

Flooding

In psychology, a therapeutic technique involving exposure to a large amount of an undesirable stimulus in order to diminish the emotional response.

Intrapersonal

Relates to internal thought processes, personal values, and self-reflection within an individual.