What types of cues did you see us use to get a clear “ch” sound?

1️⃣ the primary cue was a gestural cue - this helped to get a strong, long sound
2️⃣ we also included some verbal feedback about “round lips”

Just another reminder about the importance of layering your cues - and how every child will require different cues!

Find all the cues to elicit the “ch” sound in the Ch & J Sound Handbook 💪🏼

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“Ugggghhh… not those cards again” - we’ve all heard it before! Why not try Articulation Squares for something different?

✅ they fit x48 pictures on one page
✅ provide a visual cue to help the child say their sound clearly
✅ and you can use them with SO MANY activities

Check out Articulation Squares at Adventures in Speech Pathology

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Parents can forget, or might not be able to attend your speech therapy session.

My top tip is to record you explaining what you say! It makes sure everyone is on the same page 👏🏼

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Day 2 of our Bjorem Cruise 👏🏼 

1️⃣ Navigating the ship was an experience in itself
2️⃣ Loved all the videos about CAS from @bjoremspeech 
3️⃣ I got to explore Nassau, Bahamas and swim in that water (and get dysregulated with loud music and hangry 😝) with my travel buddy @freetobeme.speech 
4️⃣ Bumped in to the phenomenal @speakingofsamantics team (Sam and Scott) on the boat
5️⃣ Games night was HILARIOUS! Our field cracks me up @mrsspeechiep 
6️⃣ it was just nice to “dress up” and explore the ship!

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Why am I late with my Bjorem Speech Cruise recaps? Who’s got time to splice these together when you’re laughing, connecting, and gathering 100ish talkative SLPs together?!

Special mention to our keynote speaker, the incredible @phuonglienpalafox, my SLP besties @rocktherspeech, @freetobeme.speech and @mrsspeechiep - and the entire @bjoremspeech team who made this possible.

Our sponsors delivered on the goodies bags👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 @speakingofsamantics @meaviatoys @daileyeducationalservices 

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I love our sponsored shirts printed by @emilybspeech on the Bjorem Cruise 👏🏼 shoutout to @fundamental.therapy for our lanyards… how cool is my belt hack?! 

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Whooo 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 made it on board and officially checked in for the 2025 Bjorem Speech Cruise @bjoremspeech 

So excited to to connect and present with all the SLPs on board! Follow my stories for all the behind the scenes!

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I was sleep deprived, time zone confused and a little overwhelmed at presenting in front of REAL LIFE SLPs for the first time in my career.

I love that the 2024 Bjorem Cruise 🚢 and Jen from @bjoremspeech offered me an opportunity and the right song to just make me feel like I could do this!

Can’t wait for next week!! I’ll be presenting about something I’m passionate about: getting high practice trials in speech therapy for working with SSDs.

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Learn how to teach and elicit the ‘sh’ sound with these verbal instructions  and carefully chosen words to encourage round lips👌🏼

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I could keep coming up with more mini ideas… should I make a round two version?

Minis from @speechtreeco 

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You don’t HAVE TO ELICIT A SOUND IN ISOLATION FIRST 😅

Yep, feel that relief! You can carefully screen for possible facilitative contexts, and see if certain vowels or consonants can encourage (or facilitate) a clearer sound!

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I’ve updated my vocabulary (part of being a Know Better, Do Better SLP).

The last one (swapping “correct” for “clear”) is a personal choice after reflecting on my own child’s speech journey.

What words have you changed?

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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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Use a Speech Development Chart in Speech Therapy now!

How many times do you find yourself reaching for a folder, googling on your computer, or sifting through a pile of papers to explain speech development norms to parents, teachers, and caregivers?

One of the most popular journal articles of recent times is the cross-linguistic review of children’s consonant acquisition by McLeod and Crowe (2018). Their study looked at the average age that children learn to pronounce their sounds correctly, and they included some easy-to-understand graphics to help explain this.

Here are some ways that you can use a speech development chart in your speech pathology practice.

Confidently explain speech development

I’m sure you have this conversation every time you assess for child. While most of the time we provide a written report, parent education WITHIN the session is equally important. Our parents and caregivers come to see us because they have concerns about the child’s speech.

Parents generally have a lot of questions about whether a child’s speech is “normal”, and sometimes they might not even be aware that there even is an average age that we expect children to say their speech sounds correctly. This chart literally sits behind me on the wall, so that all I need to do is swivel my chair around to reference it during an assessment.

I can’t tell you how many times I see parents looking at this chart and just taking the time to understand what sounds we expect at different ages.

Make your speech therapy room more educational

The first place I put up this poster was in our Health Centre waiting room. Not only did it draw kids to it because it was bright and engaging, but parents started commenting how helpful it was too.

You don’t know what you don’t know… and having educational materials are important.

I’m also very new to the whole idea of hanging up posters in the room because they CAN be a distraction. The first one that went up on my wall was this chart because I like listening to and talking about sounds. We might point to the sound that we are working on, or I can probe stimulability for missing sounds.

Include it as part of a speech screener

There are many different ways to screen a child’s speech, depending on the length of time you have, and how in-depth you want to screen their speech. I use a laminated copy of this chart as part of my speech screener, and it quickly gives a snapshot into a child’s speech sound development.

You might like to print a black and white version and color-code the chart based on sounds that the child says correctly and incorrectly.

Attach it to a report

Lately, I’ve been either attaching the chart to my assessment reports for further information about speech development. By highlighting the sounds that the child says incorrectly on the chart, a parent is presented with visual information about their child’s speech. Reports can be long and hard to interpret, so this chart can help to support your written report.

REFERENCES

McLeod, S. & Crowe, K. (2018). Children’s consonant acquisition in 27 languages: A cross-linguistic review. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. doi:10.1044/2018_AJSLP-17-0100. Available from: https://ajslp.pubs.asha.org/article.aspx?articleid=2701897

WHERE TO FIND THE CHARTS:

There are freely available charts that the authors of the study created. You can download four different versions here.

For the chart (pictured) you can purchase it as a DIGITAL download through my store. I took the file to a print shop and had it printed as an A1 poster size!

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  • Hello,thanks for always raising the bar in knowkledge management in Speech & Language Development.My name is Allan,SLT in Kenya,kindly am humbly requesting if possible to please send me the charts and other tools chart.

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    • Happy to read another Kenyan following and with interest in speech development.

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