The Investigation of the Effect of Computer-Assisted Instruction on Treating Language and Pronunciation Disorders in 7-8 Year-Old Children

The present study aimed at the investigation of the efficacy of computer-assisted instruction, with the purpose of treating the disorders related to the pronunciation and the delay in the Verbal and the language of 7-8 year old children (whether normal or exceptional). The current experimental study was conducted adopting pretest -posttest control group design. The statistical population of this research comprised all the children who had referred to the clinical centers of Verbal therapy of Ardabil in ..... The convenience sampling method was used in the present study. The sample included 60 children which among them 30 cases were assigned to control group and 30 cases to treatment group. The instruments employed in the current study were the questionnaire of articulation disorders of university of California and the Verbal-language disorder questionnaire of the American association of Verbal therapy. The results of study demonstrated that the software for the pronunciation disorders significantly decreased the pronunciation disorder. Moreover, it increased the lexicon, auditory memory and visual memory of the cases.