Service Evaluation Of Speech Sound Therapy System

Literature Review

Discuss about the Service Evaluation of Speech Sound Therapy System.

Sound therapy has direct impact on mental health of children with behavioural disorder. This is one of the effective benefits of technological advancement within healthcare sector that is providing cue to mental health of children with behavioural disorders (Flick 2015). This area needs to be researched on because this therapy is helping children getting treated.

This assignment is elaborating the analysis on the thesis statement provided and considering literature review, methodology and considered timeline for the research area. In addition to this, the considered timeline for research process is also provided in this assignment with respect to various segments involved within the research process. Weekly basis estimation of the research process helps the research in evaluating the impact of sound therapy on children who are having behavioural disorders. In contrast with these facts, the literature review presented in this assignment also provided various supportive evidences on the research topic.

Sound therapy has been proved to be best suited solution for the children having behavioural disorders from years. There are various evidences that supports the fact that sound therapy presents soothing emotional contact with environment among these children those are having mental disorders. According to Silverman (2016), most beneficial effect of sound therapy is the reduced stress and blood pressure that help these children to be powered up and they get refreshment in their life. In addition to this, there are various examples of treatments and related to music therapy that provides miraculous examples of cure among these kinds of children those deaf  can now listen to various sounds involved within our environment.

There are various diseases that have destroys power of children to understanding the natural aspects of human. According to Soundtherapy.com (2017), it is found that Autism disease can be normalized with the help of sound therapy. This disease includes abnormality within children and they are unable to communicate with normal human with the same set of reactions and set of emotions. Sound therapy is considered as most effective one in this field as this therapy provided increase of psychological balance among autistic children. With the help of musical language the children can easily share their emotions among normal human.

According to Headstronglearningcenter.com (2017), it is found that the sound therapy stimulates the frontal lobe and this therapy can easily restore the child’s ability of thinking. There are various behavioural issues that abnormal children face due to lack of thinking power among them. These children are not capable of thinking properly various aspects. Therefore, this aspect can also be taken as one advantage of sound therapy on children having behavioural issues with them.

Methodology

There are various evidences that are supporting the effective impact of sound therapy on the children with mental disorders. Among all of these evidences some are provided in this assignment. In contrast with these facts, the critical review of these articles and information resources provide support to the cure of mental health of behaviourally disordered children.

The methodology is the definition of research plans and the development of supportive research structure for fulfilling the research processes (Aghai et al. 2015). In contrast with these facts, there are various critical aspects that highlight the positive impact of sound therapy on children having behavioural disorders and impacts of sound therapy on these children are being concerned in this research.  

In accordance with the research topic research approach is chosen to be deductive and the research philosophy is selected as the positivism approach (Hoare et al. 2014). These approaches and philosophy is helpful in understanding impacts and importance of sound therapy on these special children. Various surveys are taken into consideration for understanding these impacts.  In addition to this, the research is also dependent on the secondary data that are collected from literature reviews and it reveals the responses of various other researches done on this topic. Therefore, primary and secondary data are concerned with these approaches.

The participants of surveys, tests and interviews are chosen with respect to their connections with children having behavioural issues. This research considers those participants that are involved within treatment with respect to sound therapy.  Primary data are collected from the survey of 50 to 100 respondents and listening test of minimum 15 candidates. The secondary data is collected from 20 participants of control group and interview of 3 different people. Therefore, based on these primary and secondary data collection methods the research process collects its important and crucial data that are needed during the execution of the research.

There are various ways of removing personal bias. Snow ball sampling is considered for reducing personal bias within this research process. Therefore, personal bias is controlled and removed with the help of snow ball sampling techniques. The incorporated of this technique is helpful in keeping the personal biasing apart from the research.

Apart from all of these aspects, the ethical consideration is also involved within this research process (Hrastelj and Knight 2016). The researcher easily considered as one factor in checking the ethical aspect involved within the research process. While taking the interviews and surveys the research may take right or wrong decisions. This aspects make the researcher’s decision one factor involved within ethical decision making.

Listening tests are mainly applied on the respondents those are primarily victims of unnatural behavioural disorders. These primary responses are helpful in collecting data about effective responses of these children for impact analysis of sound therapy. Group of people involved within surveys are considered based on their experiences on sound therapy for treatment of children having behavioural disorders.

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The above table is showing the scheduled timeline for various research segments involved within the research. In contrast with these facts, Topic Selection, Data collection from secondary sources, Literature review, Formation of the research Plan, Selection of Research Techniques, data collection, Analysis & Interpretation of Data Collection, Findings of the Data, Conclusion of the Study, Formation of Rough Draft, Submission of Final Work that is considered as the independent facts involved within the research process (Aghai et al. 2015).

In accordance with the scheduled outline for research execution it is found that week 2, 4, 9 and 13 are considered for starting with the obvious set up of the research methodologies (Hoare et al. 2014). The remaining weeks schedules the objectives required for tasks involved within the research methods. In addition to this, the 13^th week decides whether the research is completed or not. Therefore, this research processing schedule will be helpful for the researcher in analyzing the importance of the sound therapy for curing behavioural disorders among children.

References

Aghai, B., Rejeh, N., Heravi, M., Ebadi, A., Moradyan, T., Tadrissi, D. and MirSadeghi, A., 2015. The effect of nature-based sound therapy on shortening length of mechanical ventilation in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft surgery patients during the weaning from mechanical ventilation. Journal of Critical Care Nursing, 7(4), pp.209-214.

Flick, U., 2015. Introducing research methodology: A beginner’s guide to doing a research project. Sage.

Headstronglearningcenter.com 2017. [online] Available at: https://www.headstronglearningcenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Benefits-of-Sound-Therapy.pdf [Accessed 12 Mar. 2017].

Hoare, D.J., Searchfield, G.D., El Refaie, A. and Henry, J.A., 2014. Sound therapy for tinnitus management: practicable options. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 25(1), pp.62-75.

Hrastelj, L. and Knight, R.A., 2016. Ingressive speech errors: a service evaluation of speech?sound therapy in a child aged 4; 6. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders.

Silverman, D. ed., 2016. Qualitative research. Sage.

Soundtherapy.com. 2017. Children, adults with autism, aspergers benefit from sound therapy. [online] Available at: https://www.soundtherapy.com.au/how-it-helps/children/autism/ [Accessed 12 Mar. 2017].

Taylor, S.J., Bogdan, R. and DeVault, M., 2015. Introduction to qualitative research methods: A guidebook and resource. John Wiley & Sons.