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Laura | Speech-Language Pathologist

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🗣 SLP & Owner of @playonwordsrva
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Not speech related but just over here reminiscing Not speech related but just over here reminiscing on our perfect wedding day back in November, and man oh man am I beyond thankful for this guy I get to call my husband ❤️
Do you use coarticulation in R therapy? If you don Do you use coarticulation in R therapy? If you don’t already have this strategy in your toolbox, I promise you that you’ll find it useful for almost all of your R clients! Coarticulation is when a sound is influenced by the sounds around it. In R therapy, this is useful because we can build upon the client’s existing strengths in R production and use those strengths to elicit another type of R. Think of coarticulation as a “word puzzle,” like the target words pictured above. If a client can say the initial R in “read” but struggles with the final AIR in “bear,” we can combine the two words to make “buried.” The word “buried” draws upon the strengths in initial R production, using the features of that sound to help elicit the vocalic AIR sound! Need more information? Looking for resources to support this skill? Comment “R sound” and I’ll send you the link to my Coarticulation for R Sound resource! #speechsounddisorders #phonologicaldisorders #speechtherapy #phonology #apraxia #childhoodapraxiaofspeech #speechsoundcues #pediatricslp #pediatricspeech #slplife #slpsofinstagram #slpmusthave #playbasedlearning #instaSLPs #Rsound #speechtherapyideas
That dang R. Some kids respond to the first cue yo That dang R. Some kids respond to the first cue you try - maybe they’re readily stimulable or already have a facilitative context. Others aren’t so easy. And sometimes they’re not ready to jump into elicitation right away in our first few sessions (even though as SLPs it’s in our nature to want results right away). But there are foundational R skills you can target before elicitation, like: ✔️ rapport ✔️ growth mindset ✔️ auditory discrimination of W-R-L ✔️ gliding minimal pairs ✔️ phonological awareness ✔️ auditory perception training ✔️ anatomy ✔️ tongue movement Anything else you would add to this list? #speechsounddisorders #phonologicaldisorders #speechtherapy #phonology #apraxia #childhoodapraxiaofspeech #speechsoundcues #pediatricslp #pediatricspeech #slplife #slpsofinstagram #slpmusthave #playbasedlearning #instaSLPs #Rsound #speechtherapyideas #schoolslp
First save this post for future reference, then co First save this post for future reference, then comment “BLENDS” to be sent the link to my Complex Clusters Tracing Worksheets so you can use this trick too! If you work with speech sound clients on clusters or blends, you may notice sometimes the child putting a schwa sound (“uh”) between the first and second consonant. So glue could sound like “guh-lue,” or “puh-lay” for play. One way to work on this in the initial stages is AVOID stop consonants like /p, k/ and instead try continuous sounds like /s, f/. For voiceless stops, there is already a slight burst of air upon release (which could enhance the schwa insertion). But using a fricative sound like S, F allows the airflow to be continuous between sounds rather than stopped. Have you tried this before? #speechsounddisorders #phonologicaldisorders #speechtherapy #phonology #apraxia #childhoodapraxiaofspeech #speechsoundcues #pediatricslp #pediatricspeech #slplife #slpsofinstagram #slpmusthave #playbasedlearning #instaSLPs #speechtherapyideas
I’m on a huge “R” kick and I’m not sorry 🤪 today let’s chat HOW you can eliminate lip-rounding when clients are gliding (or substituting W for R). This friend is now able to differentiate between W and R words in minimal pairs, BUT he is still inserting that W sound after his R. Initially I accepted these productions because he was making successive approximations towards R and producing contrasts. But now let’s eliminate that lip-rounding completely, if possible. To do that, I tried the following: 1️⃣ used the word “run,” where the vowel is low and neutral, so no lip movement should be involved at all (and there is a slight dropping of the jaw) 2️⃣ explicitly talking about how we don’t need our lips to say “run,” just our tongue 3️⃣ using slow, simultaneous productions with visual attention to my face 4️⃣ specific feedback when accurate AND when erred I think we were pretty successful! What else would you do to eliminate lip-rounding? 😌 #speechsounddisorders #phonologicaldisorders #speechtherapy #phonology #apraxia #childhoodapraxiaofspeech #speechsoundcues #pediatricslp #pediatricspeech #slplife #slpsofinstagram #slpmusthave #playbasedlearning #instaSLPs #Rsound #speechtherapyideas
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