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Therapy Resources
The No-Prep Mumble-Buster: for children who mumble and mutter
“What did you say? Can you say that again?”
Mumbling and muttering are significant barriers to good communication and can have a big impact on a child’s social and academic participation. This “no-prep” program is designed to help mumbling children to speak clearly. Featuring a colourful cast of Speech Legends and various play worlds, the pack incorporates 41 pages of social stories as well as drill-play language games and fun activities designed to improve the student’s:
- awareness of mumbling and its social effects;
- ability to discriminate mumbling from clear speech;
- understanding of the key elements of clear speech, including rate, volume and good articulation;
- response to cues from therapists, teachers, parents and others; and
- general intelligibility, first in the training sessions and then out in their “real world”.
Note: this program is designed primarily for typically developing children who mumble and mutter – either all the time or intermittently. Many of the strategies in this pack may also benefit children with speech sound issues. However, children with significant speech sound disorders (e.g. speech featuring age-inappropriate phonological processes or articulation errors) should be referred to a qualified speech pathologist for assessment and treatment. You can read more about speech sound disorders and their treatment here.
To download the pack, go here. Then simply print the pack, and associated materials and go!
Motor-speech stories for articulation movements: bilabial-dental
Sometimes, unclear speech isn’t caused by problems with speech sounds at the single sound level. Many people – children and adults alike – struggle with the movements required to sequence combinations of speech sounds, e.g. to go from a front sound like /t/ or /d/ to a back sound like /g/ or /k/ and back again quickly.
In this pack, we target tongue movements, specifically movements from “bilabial” sounds where the lips are together (e.g. /p, b, m, w/) to sounds involving the tongue/lips and teeth (e.g. /f, v/, unvoiced “th” (as in “bath”) and voiced “th” (as in “bathe”)). We call these movements bilabial-dental movements.
Together, these articulation stories are designed to train specific speech sound movements. They are not tongue twisters in the traditional sense. Instead, the stories are loaded with words and phrases designed to target a particular pattern of speech movement.
Clinically, we’ve had good results using these stories with a variety of clients, including older children with residual speech sound errors and adults with speech issues associated with traumatic brain injuries, aphasia, and mild apraxia of speech. We’ve also used them in accent modification training to train movements that are common in English, but not common in a client’s first language. We hope you and your clients find them useful.
Download the stories here.
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No-Prep Auditory Bombardment /ch/ Pack: to help eliminate deaffrication and voicing errors
It’s hard for a child to say a sound if they can’t hear it properly, or distinguish it from other speech sounds. But it can be fiddly and time-consuming to coordinate word lists, with matching pictures and high quality audio recording – especially for children who have not yet learned to read.
“Auditory bombardment” – also known as “focused auditory stimulation” – is an evidence-based practice to help children focus on the target sound or sound combination. It can be used:
- with the Cycles Phonological Remediation Approach (Barbara Hodson); or
- as an add-on to traditional articulation therapy or phonological treatments, e.g. auditory discrimination work, minimal pairs or multiple oppositions treatments.
This pack is all you need to implement an auditory bombardment program for the /ch/ sound. It includes:
- word lists using high frequency, simple vocabulary;
- beautiful, engaging photo flashcards illustrating each word on the list; and
- audio recordings(Australian-accented female voice) in easy-to-use M4A format, which can be played on your phone, iPad, or computer, and emailed to clients after the session.
Evidence tells us that you need as few as 3-5 examples of a sound for children to pick up the pattern. This pack includes 6 lists of words – 30 words in all – showcasing the target sound at the start, middle and the end of words.
To download the pack, go here. Then simply print the cards, download the audio file, and go!
No-Prep Auditory Bombardment /f/ Pack: words, pictures and audio recordings – /f/ sound (initial, middle, final)
It’s hard for a child to say a sound if they can’t hear it properly, or distinguish it from other speech sounds. But it can be fiddly and time-consuming to coordinate word lists, with matching pictures and high quality audio recording – especially for children who have not yet learned to read.
“Auditory bombardment” – also known as “focused auditory stimulation” – is an evidence-based practice to help children focus on the target sound or sound combination. It can be used:
- with the Cycles Phonological Remediation Approach (Barbara Hodson); or
- as an add-on to traditional articulation therapy or phonological treatments, e.g. auditory discrimination work, minimal pairs or multiple oppositions treatments.
This pack is all you need to implement an auditory bombardment program for the /f/ sound. It includes:
- word lists using high frequency, simple vocabulary;
- beautiful, engaging photo flashcards illustrating each word on the list; and
- audio recordings in easy-to-use M4A format, which can be played on your phone, iPad, or computer, and emailed to clients after the session.
Evidence tells us that you need as few as 3-5 examples of a sound for children to pick up the pattern. This pack includes 6 lists of words – 30 words in all – showcasing the target sound at the start, middle and the end of words.