Your Role & Resources
You can make a BIG difference!
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A parent’s, caretaker’s or communication partner’s help and encouragement is critical to success. The daily reminder to use their good speech/language at home or provide appropriate cues/support increases their communication abilities! Just 5-10 minutes a day for younger children will make a huge difference! Practice does not have to be boring, nor does it have to be drill.
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https://www.asha.org/ is the website I go to for up-to-date research to ensure I am using Evidence-based practice. If you find information on there but are not sure about some of the terms being used you can contact me for clarification.
Articulation
Speech Sound Disorders: when a person is unable to articulate a sound and will substitute, omit, or distort the sound.
Photo above: https://ajslp.pubs.asha.org/article.aspx?articleid=2701897
Phonological Processes Disorders: when a person produces fairly consistent patterns of sound errors; however phonological processes can be age-appropriate. It becomes a disorder when they continue when it is not age-appropriate.
Common phonological processes include: fronting (saying 't' for 'k' or 'd' for 'g' e.g. 'tame' for 'came' or 'doe' for 'go'), cluster reduction ('go' for 'glow' or 'mile' or 'sile' for 'smile'), and final consonant deletion ('my' for 'mine,' 'way' for 'wait,' or 'e' for 'eat')
Check out: https://littlebeespeech.com/resources/pdf/phonological_processes.pdf
Intelligibility: The term intelligibility refers to 'speech clarity' or the proportion of a speaker's output that a listener can readily understand.
18 months=25% intelligible (to parents)
24 months=50-75% intelligible
36 months=75-100% intelligible
Lynch, Brookshire & Fox (1980), p. 102, cited in Bowen (1998).
Bowen, C. (2011). Table1: Intelligibility. Retrieved from http://www.speech-language-therapy.com/ on [20-Aug-2019].
Intelligibility for Strangers:
2 years= 50%
3 years= 75%
4 years= 90-100%