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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Have a speech-related question? Go ahead and ask me (just head to my stories and type in the box) and I’ll pick my Top 5 questions to answer 👏🏼

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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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Comment “100” so we can send you a link to these 25-page FREE 100 Practices for Speech sheets.

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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Using “Little Things” in Speech Therapy

Here’s the thing: Kids don’t need fancy games. They don’t need the latest plastic creation that pops up or shoots things out. No, they don’t need any of that.

I’m here to tell you that kids will work for pom poms. They will work for counters and tiny balls of play dough. They will work for a piece of thread and a hole punch. 

I’ve recently started to collect ‘little things’ with a strange kind of fervor because I’ve seen how motivated my students can be when they get a physical thing for doing or saying something. It’s that simple kind of reinforcer that DOESN’T involve a 5 minute setup and then tears at the end when the kid loses the game.

HOW TO USE LITTLE THINGS

  1. You can get multiple repetitions or attempts if you have a larger quantity of said Little Things
  2. Kids learn how to ‘earn’ extra Little Things and that motivation and mindset is priceless (e.g. if you fix your sound all by yourself, I’ll give you another pom pom)
  3. It’s immediate reinforcement which some of our student’s need to keep their attention and motivation ready for learning
  4. The hands-on aspect can be really great for fidgety hands, sensory preferences and combining fine motor goals
  5. They can be adapted for any goal that you are working on, making them flexible for every student on your caseload and easy to implement in groups
Fun therapy using everyday objects

Now you can get all creative with HOW to implement these, but I usually keep it simple and use it as a generic reinforcer. Monday morning, I might pull put my mini erasers, and I’ll use them for every kid, regardless of the goal. Tuesday is tweezers day, Wednesday my beads will be all the rage.

You get the idea, right?

I will add, that I LOVE using Little Things to get high repetitions, which makes it perfect for all your speech kids. Your preschoolers are also very motivated by these!

So now that I’ve got you thinking that you need to start collecting Little Things, I’m going to make a list of my collection so far – but you’ll always find me at the Dollar Store adding to this list.

Using Little Things in speech therapy
I’m currently loving:
  • Pom poms, play dough, blocks, Lego pieces, lids, manipulatives
  • Stamp pads with stampers,  stamper markers, sequins, laminated stickers
  • Buttons, beads, marbles, stones, shells, aquarium gems
  • Clothespins/pegs, threading thread, foam shapes, matchsticks, craft sticks
  • Mini dollar store figurines (e.g. insects, dinosaurs etc.), mini erasers, cars, small toys
  • Coins, pirate gold, counters, magnetic counters, magnets
  • Tongs, tweezers and hole punchers are great companions to use with these

Now if I was more organized I’d spray paint one of those big storage containers with oodles of drawers a shade of duck egg blue, but I’m not that organized. So at the moment these little things are all in zip lock bags. And hey, that works JUST fine… but I do strive to be that duck egg blue SLP one day 😉

Have any other Little Things I’m missing out on? Make sure to leave a comment cos I bought a BIG box of zip lock bags that are begging to be filled.

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