If you child deletes the second consonant sound in a cluster, you may need to work on that smaller word chunk (e.g., “lice”), and THEN try adding the /s/ at the start to make the cluster.

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Learning a new sound can be hard! Even though we didn’t practice this sound too much in isolation (I moved onto syllables and words very quickly), I think they were working so hard trying to cue themselves to use the “k” sound, that they kept saying the sound in isolation… then the rest of the word.

Saying it fast helped 👏🏼

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You’ll also get a video so that you can see how to use them in your therapy session 👏🏼

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The fourth leg of our “Which Phonological Intervention Should I Choose?” tour in Perth was AMAZING!

I was so impressed with the WA speech pathologists!! The kids are lucky to have you all supporting their speech sound development 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Shoutout to the team: Paul and Amanda for getting this event off the ground and looking after everyone so well.

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Do you see how we had to use visuals to try to help the child HEAR the difference in the sounds by SEEING the difference?

Have you ever worked on or seen this before?

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Have you ever had a child do this?
I find holding up the mouth cues to SHOW the child the sound can really help 👏🏼

Find them in the AISP shop, and start being more effective with your cues!
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What are your thoughts about this??

Being a parent to a child with speech sound errors, I am guided by HER and how SHE FEELS about her speech.

I told myself I won’t “make her” come to therapy if she is happy with how she sounds.

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Sometimes our students need to “see” what they’re doing with their tongue 👅 and then you can find the right cues that help them with new tongue placement!

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Do you relate? Were you told to start an assessment speaking to the parents and getting a case history first?

That doesn’t work for me 🙃

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1️⃣ We started with opening the mouth
2️⃣ Accepted a throaty sound and shaped it into a softer sound 
3️⃣ Next we cued the child to say it faster 🤗

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Has this ever worked for you? Have you elicited a “y” starting with the “ee” vowel?

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Who says assessments have to be dry and boring??

The amount of laughter we get imitating these animals as part of our oral motor assessment is soooooo good for rapport building!!

CARDS: Oral Motor Assessment deck published by @bjoremspeech 

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Do you send video clips to parents and carers? I’ve found it can be particularly helpful at the beginning of therapy when the child is still learning about their sounds and we want to reinforce consistent cues that work in our therapy session, in the home environment.

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Tips for Completing an Oral Motor Assessment 

I don’t know if you’ve ever experienced this, but some kids can be really reluctant to open their mouths and participate in an oral motor examination because  

a) they don’t really know you 

b) they’re not sure what’s going to happen 

c) I think many kids see us donning our gloves and waving around a light and tongue depressor and think it might hurt!

try this in your next oral motor exam

Oral motor exam

Let the child look inside your mouth first. When I tell my students that they can switch off the lights and hand them a torch to look inside my mouth and tell me all the things they can see… their eyes light up! It’s then so much easier for me to say, “Okay, can I have a look in your mouth now?” 

Other tips: Ask, “Can I look and see if I can guess what you had to breakfast/lunch?” 

Involve other people!We have had parents and siblings join in to move their articulators so that the child isn’t singled out and we’re all doing it together. When shy or reluctant kids see Dad moving their tongue from side-to-side, it’s a great model for them to do it too!

Other tip: If the child attends the evaluation on their own, a hand puppet with a moveable tongue can be fun! 

Oral Motor Assessment

Make it fun to get the information you need! Ask the child to:

“Move your tongue from side-to-side like a frog catching flies.”

“Puff up your cheeks like a puffer fish.”

“Smile with your teeth together like a sloth.”

“Stick out your tongue like a chameleon catching a bug.”

By relating each area of assessment with fun animal faces, your child won’t even know they’re being assessed!

oral motor assessment cards

If you’re looking to add oral motor assessment cards to your evaluation toolkit, we have authored this deck featuring animals published with Bjorem Speech Publications.

They include:

  • * 32 cards assessing the mandible, lips, tongue and oral cavity
  • * double oral motor movements
  • * Diadochokinesis (DDK) rates
  • * A comprehensive 5 page record form

We have one more tip for you: With verbal permission or signed consent, film your oral motor assessment so that you can keep the evaluation moving and write down your observations at a later time (I personally find it hard to juggle all this at once and not miss anything!) 

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