About „Spells and Tricks” During Eliciting Speech Sounds in Case of Peripheral Articulatory Disorders. Preliminary Results of SMURF Therapy Effectiveness

The effectiveness of speech-language therapy regarding, eg. timing, method and frames of elicited sound in peripheral speech impediment (anatomical- or functional-based) has not been a target of specific scientific research logopedics nor in Poland neither abroad. The author presents preliminary results of her study concerning timing, method and frame of particular speech sound elicited in patients treated with SMURF therapy. The described study included a group of 30 subjects aged from 3,5 to 40.