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My Tricks to Teaching the /r/ Sound

October 25, 2011 by Katie Filed Under: Articulation & Phonology (aka Speech Sounds), Sound Elicitation Techniques, Therapy Ideas and Activities 41 Comments

This is a post written primarily for my fellow SLPs, however many parents may find this post interesting as well 🙂 There are affiliate links to Amazon in this post for your convenience.  Oh the dreaded /r/. If you are an SLP reading this, you know what I mean. The /r/ can be SUCH a tricky […]

Some Fun Names for Speech Sounds

October 24, 2011 by Katie Filed Under: Articulation & Phonology (aka Speech Sounds), SLP Forms, Charts, and Data Sheets, Therapy Ideas and Activities 31 Comments

Sometimes when working with young children on the production of speech sounds, it is helpful to provide the little one’s with a fun label, or name,  for the sound(s) you are teaching. Providing a visual cue to go along with the label is also very helpful, to provide multisensory instruction. Several years ago I asked […]

What is Babbling?

October 10, 2011 by Katie Filed Under: Articulation & Phonology (aka Speech Sounds), Developmental Milestones 10 Comments

“Babababababa, dadadadadada, gagagagaga” We are hearing this a LOT around our house lately! My son, Ev, is 9 months old and is quite the “talker.” But he isn’t really talking, right? What he is doing, is babbling. What is babbling? Babbling is referred to as a prelinguistic skill: meaning a skill that happens prior to […]

Speech Sounds: Not Exactly the ABC’s

October 4, 2011 by Katie Filed Under: Articulation & Phonology (aka Speech Sounds), Speech & Language 101 5 Comments

Well hello hello hello! Recently, I was helping a friend of mine out with her son’s speech. Her son is E’s age (almost three) and she was asking me if some of the speech patterns he uses are normal or not. As we were emailing back and forth, she wrote something about her son not […]

Speech: What is a lisp?

October 2, 2011 by Katie Filed Under: Articulation & Phonology (aka Speech Sounds), Speech & Language 101 29 Comments

You’ve heard it before: “He has a lisp.” But what exactly is a lisp? Did you know there is more than one type? What is a lisp? A lisp refers to an articulation disorder where a child is having difficulty producing the /s/ and /z/ phonemes, and sometimes has difficulties with the sh, ch and […]

Speech Development: Phonological Processes and Phonological Delay

September 27, 2011 by Katie Filed Under: Articulation & Phonology (aka Speech Sounds), Speech & Language 101 26 Comments

A child’s speech development is not just about his/her articulation skills (as I discussed in my last post). When SLPs are assessing a child’s speech we are also looking at the sound patterns that the child is (or is not) producing correctly. These patterns are called phonological processes and today I am going to tell […]

Articulation Development: What’s normal? {& What Isn’t}

September 25, 2011 by Katie Filed Under: Articulation & Phonology (aka Speech Sounds), Speech & Language 101 47 Comments

Welcome! As an SLP I am asked all the time about articulation development. Should my 4 year old be saying his /r/ yet? Is it normal for my 3 year old to say “lellow?” Today I am going to talk all about your child’s articulation development and go over what is normal and what isn’t. […]

Speech: Overview of Articulation, Phonology and Related Disorders

September 21, 2011 by Katie Filed Under: Articulation & Phonology (aka Speech Sounds), Speech & Language 101 Leave a Comment

Part One of my Speech Development and Disorders Series The world of speech pathology and special education can be a confusing place. There are so many different terms that it’s like a second language. What is speech? What on earth does articulation mean and how is it different from phonology? What is language, pragmatics, and […]

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