Intended for students who have multiple sound errors, the multiple oppositions approach is an intervention that we highly recommend you familiarise yourself with, especially if you treat children who produce one sound for many sounds. Fun AISP fact, when Rebecca was a new graduate speech pathologist, she read up and decided to implement the multiple oppositions approach with one of her students. She was absolutely BLOWN AWAY by the growth and progress that was made with a very hard-to-understand child, it made her fall in love with speech sound disorders!
For an in-depth review, we highly recommend reading the Multiple Oppositions chapter from the Interventions from Speech Sound Disorders in Children text (Williams, McLeod & McCauley, 2021).
The open-access journal article, "Minimal, Maximal, or Multiple: Which contrastive intervention approach to use with which children with speech sound disorders," by Dr Holly Storkel. FREE!
The journal article, "Multiple oppositions: Case studies of variables in phonological intervention," by Dr Lynn Williams.
The journal article, "Multiple oppositions: Theoretical foundations for an alternative contrastive intervention approach," by Dr Lynn Williams.
The Informed SLP review, "Treating phoneme collapse with a Multiple Opposition Approach." FREE!
Our blog post on when to use the multiple oppositions approach in speech therapy. FREE!
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We create a range of printable and digital therapy resources to meet your needs:
Our Multiple Oppositions Cards for /h/ are built for children with a phoneme collapse to /h/. With up to 8 treatment sets contrasting /h/ with 40 sounds, plus target selection tools, evidence-based rationales, and free linked materials, you only print what each child needs.
Our Final Consonant Deletion Multiple Oppositions Packet uses an evidence-based approach to treat final consonant deletion, contrasting your student’s error with up to 3 to 5 targets at once for faster, system-wide change. With 28 contrast sets plus target selection guidance, activity ideas, and color and B&W cards, the work is done for you.
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