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Reconceptualizing Practice with Multilingual Children with Speech Sound Disorders: People, Practicalities and Policy (2015)

January 16, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Participants, Design, and Procedures: Participants in this study consisted of 57 (92 originally invited; 57 accepted; 14 were available for face to face meeting and 43 were available for an online meeting) experts/specialists in multilingual speech and speech acquisition from all over the world. Included in the “Expert Panel” were speech-language pathologists, phoneticians, and linguists; […]
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Using Ultrasound Visual Biofeedback to Treat Persistent Primary Speech Sound Disorders (2015)

January 16, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Participants & Design: Seven children with persistent speech sound disorders whose errors were not remediated in traditional therapy participated in this study. These subjects had a variety of articulation errors, which the authors felt was important to show the effectiveness of this method for more than just treating /r/. Two baseline probes (weeks 1 and […]
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Visualizing Vowel Shapes

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Cut out squares of mouth shapes to provide a visual aid during sound sequencing tasks.
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Front-Back Minimal Pairs

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This resource contains 24 front/back minimal pairs with pictures designed to provide an engaging focal point to structured therapy tasks as well as context for abstract words used in repeated practice.
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Types of Cleft Lip/Palate

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This handout visualizes normal cleft and lip development as well as the following types of cleft lip/palate: Unilaterial cleft lip with alveolar involvement, bilaterial cleft lip with alveolar involvement, unilateral cleft lip associated with cleft palate, bilateral cleft lip and palate, and cleft palate only.
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The /s/ Spider

January 9, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This sssssspecial spider is designed to address the /s/sound in structured therapy. 6 of the spider’s legs feature vowel sounds to provide a visual and tactile way for a child to participate in syllable practice.
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Techniques for Achieving the /R/ Sound

January 9, 2022 by Megan Berg.
The /r/ sound is notoriously considered to be one of the most difficult phonemes in the English language to articulate. This is a resource for therapists, parents, and caregivers who are looking for ideas to help their children achieve /r/ production—specifically in the initial position of single syllable words.
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