S Cluster Therapy Ideas

  Here are some great ideas for working on s clusters! They were submitted by Angel Reaux, a graduate student at University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Thank you, Angel!   Use I Spy books or puzzles or put pictures of s cluster objects on the wall and play “I Spy” games. Use a puppet spider [...]

Here are some “sweet” Valentine’s Day therapy materials…

  What better way is there to get your message across this Valentine’s Day than to put it on a “candy heart”? There is a cool website that allows you to enter your own word or message, pick the heart’s color, and save the result. To make your own, go to http://www.cryptogram.com/hearts/ I’ve made some [...]

Interdental Lisping

What is it? Interdental lisping is when the tongue protrudes between the front teeth when producing /s/ or /z/, resulting in a “th” sound.  The /s/ becomes a voiceless “th”, as in “think”, and the /z/ becomes a voiced “th”, as in “those”.  Interdental lisping, also be known as “frontal lisping”, is a normal developmental [...]

Tongue Tip Trouble- Fronting /t/ for /k/

How can you quickly solve the fronting of /k/?  Tackle the tongue tip!  Getting /k/ in isolation is easily achieved by keeping the child’s tongue tip from making contact with the alveolar ridge or teeth.  Some ideas for doing this include: • Use a tongue depressor to gently hold the tongue tip down while the child [...]

Articulation Stories for Any Sound

Time to take it up a notch Yeah!  Your client can successfully use his target sound in words and sentences!  Now what?  It’s time to take it to the next level.  If the child can read, I recommend having him read sound-loaded stories before jumping straight into conversational speech practice.  Why reading? The printed words [...]