When it comes to speech pathology, many people have come across terms like articulation, stuttering, voice hoarseness. And, basic language components like sentence structure, vocabulary and grammar. These are common problem areas encountered by individuals who seek treatment from a speech pathologist. However, sometimes a person’s language can be affected outside of their ability to […]
Articulation Therapy – Sounds in Phrases and Sentences
In order to ensure articulation therapy is successful, goals need to be targeted at the right level during every practice session. Throughout this blog, I will be discussing how you can work on target sounds at sentence level. Here are a few activities that are useful for targeting sounds at this level. Sounds in Phrases […]
Articulation Therapy – Sounds in Words
In order to ensure that articulation therapy is successful, goals need to be targeted at the right level during every practice session. Throughout this blog, I will be discussing how you can work on target sounds at word level. Here are a few activities that are useful for targeting sounds at these levels. Sounds in […]
Articulation Therapy – Sounds in Syllables
In my last blog, I discussed one of the most common therapy hierarchies used when treating articulation disorders known as Van Riper’s model and how homework can be completed within the first stage of the hierarchy, which is working on sounds in isolation. Van Riper’s model is a framework used to structure speech therapy. AS […]
Articulation Therapy – Working at the right level
To the untrained eye, articulation therapy can look like one big conversation mixed in with a game or two here and there. Unless you are familiar with the components and the structure of therapy, it can make it hard to know if you are correctly following through with home practise. Throughout this blog series I […]
The Beginning of Spoken Language
While there is no certain information about the origins of language, the progression of science has allowed us to determine some information to help us piece together this complicated puzzle. It is unlikely that language exist 6 millions years ago. We shared common ancestors with chimpanzees at this point and we know that they do […]