Objective: This investigation examined the effectiveness of a modified cycles approach on articulation accuracy using Percentage of Consonants Correct (PCC) in elementary school-aged children with phonological processing disorders. The modified cycles apporach was an abbreviated version of Hodson and Paden’s cycles approach, created to be more applicable for speech-language pathologists (SLPs) in a school setting. Method: Four children aged 5:6 to 7:4 with two active phonological processes participated in a nonconcurrent multiple baselines across participants design. The dependent variable was articulation accuracy, which was found through PCC using a wordlist. The independent variable was the implementation of a modified cycles treatment approach provided twice weekly for three weeks. Results: All four participants displayed significant improvements in articulation accuracy using the two-standard deviation band method for at least one of the two targeted processes. Conclusion: This investigation provides insight into the efficacy of a modified cycles treatment approach for children with phonological processing disorders in the school setting. Future research is recommended to explore the generalizability of a modified cycles approach by implementing the treatment approach to a larger sample.
