Developed in Australia, Parents and Children Together (PACT) is a broad-based,
family-centred phonological therapy. It is a treatment approach for developmental
phonological disorders in the course of whose implementation speech and language
therapists enlist the active participation of parents and significant others. It
requires family members to learn technical information and develop novel skills to
use, with professional guidance, in relation to their own child and his or her
specific speech clarity issues. In this paper we review the family education and
“homework’ aspects of PACT and explore, with brief case
illustrations, the participation of 13 families involved in its administration.
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