Have you ever used the Nuffield program for Childh Have you ever used the Nuffield program for Childhood Apraxia or Speech?

We’re working on quiet plosives in CV and VC positions. I love that the program contains four cards for each word!

I’m also using @bjoremspeech cards to cue for the /p/ sound.

The reinforcer activity was to give felt pieces that then make a tangram picture!

#apraxiaofspeech #speechpathologist #childhoodapraxiaofspeech #slpa #speechtherapy #apraxiakids #adventuresinspeechpathology
This page always gets a lot of laughs!!! Using th This page always gets a lot of laughs!!!

Using the metaphor of “tail sounds” is such a fun way to talk about final consonant deletion with your kids ❤️

#adventuresinspeechpathology #speechpathology #speechtherapy #slp #slpeeps #phonology #minimalpairs
First therapy session for /r/. No, I did not focu First therapy session for /r/.

No, I did not focus on isolation.

I found words that the child COULD SAY correctly, and practiced those 🙌🏻

Can you see any patterns of where they are most accurate?

#articulation #speechtherapy #adventuresinspeechpathology #speechsounddisorders #articulationdelay
Love being able to SEE how much we have practiced, Love being able to SEE how much we have practiced, and what words the child can say correctly!

ALSO... THIS PAGE IS 100 TRIALS 🥳

Which means it’s one of my favourite pages to send for home practice!

#speechtherapyactivities #speechtherapy #slp #slpa #slpeeps #articulation #articulationtherapy
Simple therapy activity. You don’t need to be re Simple therapy activity. You don’t need to be really fun.

🥳 Just be fun enough! 🥳

We used a simple dinosaur mouth to practice our words. He was engaged, and we got 13 practices in a minute 🙌🏻That’s all that matters!!

Please don’t think that you need every fancy toy! Simple activities can be so effective.

FYI: two weeks ago I taught this little one /kl/ and /gl/ blends and they have generalised to final position!!! 💪🏻💪🏻

#articulationtherapy #Speechtherapy #Speechsounddisorders #spla #slpeeps #speechsounds #Adventuresinspeechpathology
Cues and syllables. At around the age of 4, I real Cues and syllables. At around the age of 4, I really like to check those early phonological awareness skills, especially for those kids who have been seeing me for a little while due to a severe speech sound delay.

Many of my kids show weak syllable deletion, difficulties perceiving and identifying sounds, or just lack awareness of “syllableness”.

While I love to use the body to clap and tap the syllables in words, I also little to use real objects to represent the “beats”. With this little one, I use Cued Articulation gestures to help them “see” the sounds.

What’s your fave thing to use to work on beats?

#articulation #phonologicalawareness #preschoolslp #speechsounddisorders #Adventuresinspeechpathology
Any guesses what this is?? I am LOVING making new Any guesses what this is??

I am LOVING making new metaphors for speech patterns and substitutions that you see in your caseload.

I think I have 5 new Minimal Pair Toolkits that I’m halfway through 🤗 it’s been so fun to get back to creating (vs. attending meetings, replying to emails and fixing problems 😅).

#minimalpairs #speechtherapy #phonology #articulation #slpsontpt
I saw a psychologist yesterday! And I was excited I saw a psychologist yesterday!

And I was excited. I have ups and downs. High expectations of myself. Difficulties balancing being a mum, SLP, wife and small business owner.

I have mum guilt. I’m stressed. I love working... maybe too much.

Anyway. It’s okay to admit that you need someone to help ❤️

FYI: before you ask, my jumper is from @beetheslp

#adventuresinspeechpathology #itsokaynottobeokay
Why do the SLOW way when you can make BIG CHANGES Why do the SLOW way when you can make BIG CHANGES and maybe have a child in and out of your door in three sessions?

👉🏻 I posted this last year, but I want to remind you all again!

So it might not always go like this, but for some kids, it is literally like you flicked a switch and their sound system almost instantly goes, “ohhhhhh.... L and W are different sounds so I should be saying them differently”. With this little example, I DID have to give placement cues in my first session as he wasn’t stimulable for /l/. And you’re allowed to!

But I stuck to my guns with the minimal pairs approach to help him understand that he has to contrast the sounds so that they make sense to people like me ☺️ At the end of the day, we shouldn’t be keeping our kids longer in therapy than they need to. Choosing an approach that thinks ‘big picture’ and can make big changes can speed up how long they’re on your caseload.

#phonology #speechtherapy #slp #preschoolslp #ashaweb #slp2b #speechlanguagepathology #slpeeps #schoolslp #slpbloggers #speechies #adventuresinspeechpathology
One set of cards, one type of gesture, one special One set of cards, one type of gesture, one special trick that you learned WILL NOT WORK for every child!!!

I get asked a lot what I’d do for kids who can’t say /k/, /r/, or a frontal lisp.

And it’s different every time, because what my kids do is different!

So don’t keep using the same cue and wondering why it isn’t working. Try DIFFERENT visuals, see how metaphors, orthographic and pragmatic cues work.

Try a mirror, give phonetic placement cues, facilitate using vowels, and trial the sound in different positions including clusters!

Your bag of tricks need to be BIG!

#articulationtherapy #slpa #slpgradstudent #speechsounddisorders #slpeeps #slpsofinstagram #slpbloggers #articulation #speechsounds #adventuresinspeechpathology
Have you ever used the Nuffield program for Childh Have you ever used the Nuffield program for Childhood Apraxia or Speech?

We’re working on quiet plosives in CV and VC positions. I love that the program contains four cards for each word!

I’m also using @bjoremspeech cards to cue for the /p/ sound.

The reinforcer activity was to give felt pieces that then make a tangram picture!

#apraxiaofspeech #speechpathologist #childhoodapraxiaofspeech #slpa #speechtherapy #apraxiakids #adventuresinspeechpathology
This page always gets a lot of laughs!!! Using th This page always gets a lot of laughs!!!

Using the metaphor of “tail sounds” is such a fun way to talk about final consonant deletion with your kids ❤️

#adventuresinspeechpathology #speechpathology #speechtherapy #slp #slpeeps #phonology #minimalpairs
First therapy session for /r/. No, I did not focu First therapy session for /r/.

No, I did not focus on isolation.

I found words that the child COULD SAY correctly, and practiced those 🙌🏻

Can you see any patterns of where they are most accurate?

#articulation #speechtherapy #adventuresinspeechpathology #speechsounddisorders #articulationdelay
Love being able to SEE how much we have practiced, Love being able to SEE how much we have practiced, and what words the child can say correctly!

ALSO... THIS PAGE IS 100 TRIALS 🥳

Which means it’s one of my favourite pages to send for home practice!

#speechtherapyactivities #speechtherapy #slp #slpa #slpeeps #articulation #articulationtherapy
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Home
  • About
  • Freebie Library
  • Shop Therapy Materials
  • Contact

Adventures in Speech Pathology

Feel confident treating speech sound disorders

Phonology, Therapy Activities · January 8, 2019

Stopping Activities ANYONE can use – even parents!

  • Stopping activities ANYONE can use

Therapy fads come and go. There was the play dough smash revolution, the dauber reign, the sensory bin sensation and now mini erasers and trinkets are finding their way inside places they shouldn’t be (like your shoes and lunchboxes).

But minimal pairs are here to stay.

It’s a therapy constant that unless research says otherwise, is not going away. But here’s the thing: you don’t need to jump on a therapy fad to still have fun with minimal pairs. Sure, when I’m in the mood I’ll grab out my carefully sorted Dinky Doodads… but that’s not everyday life for me as a therapist. And it doesn’t really translate for parents either.

So I’m going to share my list of everyday minimal pair activities using things that MOST speech rooms and families have in their homes. It’s the concept of using what you have instead of making something different.

Stopping of ‘f’

Fill-pill: This is so easy and flexible, because your activity is just to ‘fill’ something up. Fill a bucket, a jar, a bowl or a cup. Anything, just fill it. With what, you ask? With anything! Pom poms, beads, mini erasers (because they’re still on-trend and I know you have them) or blocks. Just fill it. My kids are kinda amazed by tongs and tweezers so it always helps to have them. If your child says “fill”, they get to fill the bucket – but if they say “pill” you can draw attention to the card and act all confused “Pill the bucket? That doesn’t make sense! I know that you can fill a bucket. Try again”. Sometimes if they say ‘pill’ I give them the pill card with a nonchalant air and then I have my turn and say the sentence correctly just so I CAN FILL THE BUCKET. The look in my student’s eyes seems to say well hold up now lady, I want a turn! This is why the target word HAS to be motivating.

Stopping F-P

Fed-bed: Puppets, toys and figurines are great for this – you can also use feed-bead for the same activity, but with a different tense. Hand puppets have got to be a favourite of mine as you can gobble up food! Don’t have one, well everyone wears socks! My little girl loves her bear and equally loves feeding her bear. Use what your kids love and they will engage.

 

Stopping F-B

Stopping of ‘sh’

Share-tear: Thinking flexibly again, this can be anything that you can distribute – have a picnic or tea party (Velcro food that can be cut in half is the BEST for this), share game pieces or turns doing something. It doesn’t have to be too fancy, just remember that if you’re playing something, your kids will want to join you. Have a laugh and gather up all the pieces and joke that you’re not going to ‘share’ unless they ask you to share.

Stopping Sh-T

Stopping of ‘s’:

Sack-tack: Grab a bag (which we will call a ‘sack’), put things inside and your kids can reach inside the sack to pull out whatever mysterious objects you have placed in there. It’s fun to create a little anticipation before they pull the object out, so I ask questions like “is the thing in the sack soft or hard?“, or “do you think there is food in your sack?”. For a word level idea I might say “Do you want the tack, or to pull something out of the sack?”… and we all know what their answer SHOULD be!

Stopping S-T

Now you WILL need minimal pairs. You can draw the pictures yourself, use them from an app, incorporate physical objects (e.g. an actual ‘tack’ or a toy sized ‘bed’) or have printed cards. I prefer something physical so that I can ‘give’ the error word to the child. I have cards included in my Teach Phonology Stopping and Stopping Phonology Feeding Mouths sets if you need something bright and punchy!

If you’d like me to share more of these everyday ideas for other phonological processes make sure to put your requests into the comments or get in touch 🙂

Share this:

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Pinterest

Related

Previous Post: « Working as an SLP in the UK – what’s it like?
Next Post: Why you should STOP using conversation topic cards »

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Renee says

    November 4, 2019 at 12:22 pm

    How about deaffrication, s for sh?
    How about gliding, y for s?
    And I am endlessly working on fronting t for K. Thanks!

    Reply
    • Rebecca Reinking says

      December 13, 2019 at 9:26 am

      Hi Renee,
      I’ll have to get some more ideas down. Thanks for the tip 🙂

      Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Hi, I'm Rebecca.
I encourage SLPs to feel more confident treating speech sound disorders, and make faster progress with their students.

Search my Blog

Look for an SLP topic

  • Activities
  • For SLPs
  • Freebies
  • Phonological Processes
  • Phonology
  • Social Communication
  • Speech Materials
  • Therapy Activities
  • Therapy Approaches
  • Therapy Topics
  • Uncategorized
  • Working Overseas

Copyright © 2021 Adventures in Speech Pathology | Site design by Laine Sutherland Designs