Minimal Pairs Resources

Whether you’re just getting started with the minimal pairs approach or want to feel more confident delivering it with fidelity, you’re in the right place. We’ve pulled together all of our minimal pairs resources — from starter toolkits and printable card sets to our comprehensive Minimal Pairs Handbook — so you can find exactly what you need, pick it up today, and implement it with your students tomorrow.

Learn More About Minimal Pairs

If you ever asked us at AISP which phonological intervention we most frequently use, hands-down, it’s the minimal pairs approach! There is a reason why there is such a long, strong evidence base on this approach, and it’s one that we highly recommend you familiarise yourself with if you treat children with speech sound disorders.  

Purchase the Minimal Pairs 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 700 reviews!

Read for an in-depth review; we highly recommend reading the Minimal Pairs chapter from the Interventions from Speech Sound Disorders in Children (Williams, McLeod & McCauley, 2021).

Therapy Materials For Minimal Pairs

We create a range of printable and digital therapy resources to meet your needs: 

Our Minimal Pairs Toolkit is the “starter kit” we recommend SLP’s first purchase for a printable set of minimal pair cards, stories to introduce the rule & cue cards for the six most common phonological patterns – over 915 reviews!

We currently have an extensive range of minimal pair cards for the following patterns:

Homework packets for treating common phonological patterns using the minimal pairs approach. Our collection includes individual and discounted bundles for:

 

View our interactive Boom Card decks for digital (and telehealth practice) using minimal pairs. Current patterns include final consonant deletion, fronting, ‘s’ cluster reduction, gliding, stopping, and voicing.

Download and browse our free minimal pair cards in our freebie library – FREE!

Purchase and download the SCIP (Sound Contrasts in Phonology) app. This evidence-based therapeutic tool developed by Dr. A. Lynn Williams allows you to create a treatment program for contrastive approaches, including minimal pairs.

Watch Minimal Pairs Clips

Follow @adventuresinspeechpathology on Instagram to watch therapy clips. Make sure to browse the video section for our back catalogue of therapy clips.

We include short clips and a 30-minute therapy session in the Minimal Pairs Handbook.

Purchase Physical Minimal Pair Cards

We have published physical Minimal Pair card decks with Bjorem Speech Publications. For local stockists in your country, purchase orders and shipping information, head to their website.

Current series include:

Listen To Minimal Pairs Podcasts

Listen to “Using Minimal Pairs”, a 40-minute podcast episode hosted on the Speak Up FREE!

Listen to “Tips for getting started with Minimal Pairs” featured on the Real Talk SLP podcast FREE!

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