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Apparently, I’m not the only SLP who struggles with the /r/ sound! In my last “Quick Articulation Tip,” I shared how I started using dental floss picks to help students find the appropriate tongue placement for the /r/ sound. This tip helped several of my students, but several still struggle with the rest of the tongue position for the /r/ sound, especially…
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This week, as I was screening one of my first grade students for his present levels of performance for his upcoming annual review, I realized I didn’t have anything to measure how he felt about his speech. Sure, I have my progress monitoring tools for phonology and articulation that tell me objectively he has made gains in his speech sounds…
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Can I make a confession? One of my least favorite things to work on in therapy is the dreaded /r/ sound! It’s so hard to demonstrate to students what exactly you want them to do with their articulators to make the sound, because it’s just not a very “visible” sound. I had read somewhere online that an SLP had some…
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Does anyone else have a huge collection of stimulus cards printed from TpT that just seem to pile up? I seem to keep collecting them, but just don’t have a good place to store them! (If you caught my Periscope a few weeks ago – @slpnataliesnyders – you got a sneak peek.) After my success making over these plastic drawers,…
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