Use of the Prompts for Reestructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets (PROMPT) in Autism Spectrum Disorder: a case study.
Denise Miranda de Oliveira Donadio, Marcia Simões-Zenari, Thaís Helena Ferreira Santos and 3 others
PMID 38126591WHAT IT FOUND
A six-year-old boy with autism received 16 PROMPT sessions.
His speech accuracy and motor control scores improved, reaching all seven target words. This describes one child's response, not proof that PROMPT works for autism.
Key findings
01The participant's phonological performance improved after 16 PROMPT sessions, with correct words rising from 9 to 15 and Percentage of Correct Consonants – Reviewed rising from 52% to 78%.
02Motor speech control targets improved, with the number of 'NO' answers on the System Analysis Observation decreasing for phonatory, mandibular, labio-facial, and lingual controls.
03All seven target words set during the two steps of the intervention were reached by the participant.
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What it does not show
This is a single case report, so the results cannot be generalised to other children with ASD. The participant's ASD support level was unknown because it was not recorded in medical records. There was no control group or comparison treatment, so natural development or other factors cannot be ruled out as causes for improvement. The study did not measure long-term retention or generalisation of skills to daily life.
Declared interests
The authors did not report any conflicts of interest or funding sources in the provided text.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that PROMPT is an effective treatment for autism based on this paper. It describes the response of one child to 16 sessions, not a controlled trial, and cannot prove that the therapy caused the improvements or that they will occur in other patients.