Minimal Pairs for K and G
Hey there! My name is Chloe B, and I’m a school SLP (speech language pathologist). If you’re new here, I write bi-weekly posts to help speech therapists in the schools + families with kids in speech therapy. And as a practicing SLP, one of my favorite ways to treat articulation deficits is using the minimal […]
Can Speech Therapy Help with a Lisp?
Does your child sound ’slushy’ when he or she talks? Or do they stick out their tongue on S and Z sounds? These kinds of errors can impact a child’s speech intelligibility, or their ability to be understood. So you may be wondering, can speech therapy help with a lisp? Short Answer: Yes Speech Therapy […]
Minimal Pairs W and R
Are you having difficulty treating the R sound with a traditional articulation approach? If the child continuously makes the /W/ sound instead of the /R/, then I have an approach for you! Try the minimal pairs W and R approach! What are Minimal Pairs? If you aren’t familiar with the minimal pairs approach, don’t worry! […]
How to Do the Cycles Approach to Speech Therapy
Are you wondering about the cycles approach to speech therapy? It’s an approach to treat speech sound disorders that’s gaining a lot of traction recently. More and more speech therapists are learning about Barbara Hodson’s research and her creation of the Cycles Phonological Remediation Approach. What is the Cycles Approach? The cycles approach is a […]
What Does Articulation Mean?
So you’ve heard a speech therapist toss around the word “articulation” and it’s got you scratching your head. What does articulation mean? You may feel like you have a general idea of it from the dictionary’s definition – “formation of clear and distinct sounds in speech” (Oxford Dictionary). But what about articulation disorders? What about […]