A single-case A-B-A-B research design investigation explored the effects of storybook sharing on the production of the T/ (“sh”) phoneme in words among three preschool children with a current articulation or phonological process disorder diagnosis. Participants included two males and one female who had similar backgounds. Four specific storybooks were chosen for the high-frequency content of the T/ phoneme and were used sequentially during the intervention phases. Visual analysis data is provided through level, frend, slope, and the two-standard deviation band method. Results demonstrated that all participants improved from pre-test to 2nd post-test, seven weeks from the conclusion of the investigation. All showed on an average accelerated trend across data points during all intervention phases. Clinical implications include the use of a naturalistic and interactive activity such as storybook sharing in an academic, clinical (therapeutic), and home setting with the appropriate training on how to utilize the appropriate storybooks with high concentration of the phoneme to carefully plan the use of reinforcements throughout the task, to use appropriate prosody and inflection during the storytelling, and to choose a topic of story that is relevant to the child for an effective intervention.
Keywords: storybook sharing, reading, arüculation remediation, naturalistic approach
