Cycles Approach
The cycles approach is an approach for highly unintelligible children with many error patterns. We know that this is a commonly used therapy approach in some countries around the world, but let’s be honest… it does take a little getting your head around how to set up and plan your cycle! We hope you feel a little more confident with our recommendations.
- Purchase the Cycles Approach Handbook, a comprehensive, step-by-step intervention guide written for SLPs. The handbook is over 140 pages long and contains the “intervention manual” and clips to watch so you know HOW to implement the approach. Currently, over 390 reviews!
- Read for an in-depth review; we highly recommend reading the Cycles Approach chapter from the Interventions from Speech Sound Disorders in Children text (Williams, McLeod & McCauley, 2021).
- Read the text Evaluating and Enhancing Children’s Phonological Systems by Barbara Hodson.
We create fun print and digital therapy materials in our Cycles Approach range. The packets can be purchased as individual sounds or bundled together. You will find printable homework sheets, games, activities, listening lists and Boom Cards.
Materials for primary and secondary patterns include
- initial consonant deletion (featuring “b”, “m”, “w” and “p”)
- final consonant deletion (featuring “m”, “n”, “p” and “t”)
- fronting (featuring “k” initial and final, “g”)
- ‘s’ cluster reduction (featuring “sn”, “st”, “sp”, “sm”, “sw” and “sk”)
- final ‘s’ clusters (featuring final “ts”, “ps” and “ks”)
- gliding (featuring “r” and “l”)
- initial stridents (featuring “s”, “f”, “sh”, “v”, and “z”)
- Register for Barbara Hodson’s three-hour course titled “Evaluating and Enhancing Children’s Phonological Systems”. This is available on the ASHA Learning Center.
- Purchase the Cycles Intervention card decks authored by Amy Graham and published with Bjorem Speech Publications.
- We include short clips and a 30-minute therapy session in the Cycles Approach Handbook.
