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What is Articulation?
Articulation is the ability to accurately produce
speech sounds. A child with an articulation deficit is one who may be having
difficulty with the placement of the articulators, with the timing and the
direction and pressure of the air flow to accurately make the various speech
sounds. Articulators refer to the lips, lower jaw, velum, tongue, and the
pharynx. The child’s speech may be unintelligible especially to people who do
not hear the child speak as often. Unintelligible means it is difficult for
the listener to understand what the child is saying. The child could be 10%
unintelligible or 90% unintelligible, etc. The child may be omitting,
distorting, substituting, or adding speech sounds throughout his/her speaking.
The child may be speaking with decreased volume or increased rate. The child
may have weak oral motor skills to accurately and effectively produce the
various speech sounds. A child with these types of difficulties may need saome
instruction and practice to develop effective speech skills.
Internet Links
Look Here To Work On Your Speech Sounds!
http://www.quia.com/pages/havemorefun.html
A great site that shows how sounds are made. Click on the American flag and
get started.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/
This site has FUN games for working on your
sounds! Scroll down for games for /r/ - Battleship, Hangman, and more!
http://www.quia.com/pages/speechersclass.html
What speech therapist doesn't love using tongue
twisters to practice speech sounds! Here are a bunch of them!
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8136/tonguetwisters.html
These "Mad Lib" activities are great for
practicing speech sounds. Just have your student think of words containing
their sounds, then read their Wacky Web Tale aloud. Lots of fun for 3rd grade
and up.
http://www.eduplace.com/tales/
This site includes information for parents and
therapists about the childhood apraxia of speech.
http://www.apraxia-kids.org/
Lisping...when /s/ and /z/ are hard to say. An
informational website about lisping.
http://members.tripod.com/Caroline_Bowen/lisping.htm
Cleft lip and Cleft palate resources
http://www.widesmiles.org/
http://www.speech-language-therapy.com/tx-a-quickscreener.html
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