It’s been interesting straddling both sides of speech therapy: 

Being a speech pathologist who only treats speech sounds
AND being a parent of a child with speech difficulties.

It has sure changed how I speak to and train parents, has allowed me to adjust my expectations, and be more compassionate and understanding of how the challenges!

Are you someone on both sides?

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You learn bite-sized speech stuff from me EVERY DAY 🤗 Imagine how far you will grow clinically as an SLP when you learn for four hours with me!!!

I ♥️ minimal pairs - COMMENT “master” and let’s just go on this adventure where you finally nail at least one phonological intervention!

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Have you experienced this? A cue that works for one student won’t work for another?

Instead of trying to make a cue fit a child, I’m more about being flexible and guided by the child and how they learn!

This means I need to know lots of cues, and match the right ones to each of my kids. Agree… disagree…. Other thoughts??

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Comment “master” because you at least need to know how in-depth this course is… and how much you really don’t know about minimal pairs!!!

So, make 2025 the year you really master a phonological intervention 👊🏽💪🏼👌

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If I can admit that there was a LOT I didn’t know about the minimal pairs approach… can you?

Combining the evidence with 18 years clinical experience, I want this to be the last PD you’ll ever have to take on this therapy approach.

Register now 👏🏼 link is in our bio or type this link: bit.ly/MMP_AISPCourse

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We have tips, tips, and more tips!!!! If this cue doesn’t work to encourage a clear “ch”, don’t forget we wrote the Ch Sound Handbook where you can find 100+ more ideas 💡 

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All it takes is 5-10 minutes to screen for possible facilitative contexts (words that encourage a clear production of our target sound), but this can set you up for INSTANT success!

If you took my free SLP Summit talk, then you saw these screeners in action! Why waster weeks and months with no progress when it doesn’t have to be that way?

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We’ve bundled and discounted our THERAPY CHANGING facilitative contexts packets to get faster progress in articulation therapy 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

If you watched by free SLP Summit presentation, then you’d know how quickly the students in my case studied progressed when we found words that encouraged clear sounds!!

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Stimulability Approach

We love this short-term approach for kick-starting therapy for 2-4 year olds who struggle to say many sounds.  This approach can be a fun and engaging way to start therapy for highly unintelligible little ones and their families before moving onto other therapy approaches that will make greater system wide change.   We hope our recommendations below will have you confidently implementing this approach with your kids.

learn more about the stimulability approach
  • Read for an in-depth review; we highly recommend reading the Stimulability Approach chapter from the Interventions from Speech Sound Disorders in Children text (Williams, McLeod & McCauley, 2021). 
  • Read this Miccio and Elbert (1996) article – Enhancing Stimulability: A Treatment Program FREE!
therapy materials for the stimulability approach
  • Download Picture Cards Caroline Bowen’s Speech Language Therapy website has a page dedicated to Stimulability Approach, including an assessment form and materials to implement the approach. Caroline does ask for a donation to keep her site running and provide free resources FREE!
  • FREE download of the Miccio Stimulability Probe. This editable PDF allows you to record data for the purposes of stimulability FREE!   
Watch stimulability approach clips
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