The Entire World of R The phonemic approach to /r/ remediation

Getting the attention from a group is done easily with inhale and exhale pose.  Use your oceanic breath. You simply say, Inhale and raise your arms up, exhale, bring arms down by your sides as  you say exhale and release. This will help calm your group of children and center their minds to enable th

It is important especially during therapy with /r/, that we as SLP’s are aware of the type of /r/ we are making when we produce the /r/ sound. We are skilled speakers and our tongue moves in the correct manner unconsciously. Our students, with /r/ mis-productions, however, need to be shown how to mo

I want to focus on a theme today. Let’s focus on, “What is your default when things in life, especially the job of a SLP, get difficult or overwhelming?”   Do you flee, distract or indulge yourself, become angry, have fear?  How do we know what our default is?  We do this by first: becoming [...]

I want to focus on a theme today. Let’s focus on, “What is your default when things in life, especially the job of a SLP, get difficult or overwhelming?”   Do you flee, distract or indulge yourself, become angry, have fear?  How do we know what our default is?  We do this by first: becoming [...]

I want to focus on a theme today. Let’s focus on, “What is your default when things in life, especially the job of a SLP, get difficult or overwhelming?”   Do you flee, distract or indulge yourself, become angry, have fear?  How do we know what our default is?  We do this by first: becoming [...]

It’s another great year and our first stop for trade shows is coming up this weekend. We will be in Denver Colorado for the Metro Speech-Language Symposium this weekend February 4th on Saturday. Come by and see us at booth #113! Don’t miss Christine Ristuccia MS, CCC-SLP speak at the Metro Speech an

When treating articulation disorders I used to focus on explaining to the student how to produce the sound in an intellectual manner. However, in my own personal experience, I feel that all students who are learning a physical task such as articulation, dance or yoga poses need to be out of the inte

Did you see The Entire World of R in the June 27, 2011 cover story of Advance Magazine for Speech-Language Pathologists? The authors Lila Carson, Susan Miller and Karen Noll from Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Georgia present some very useful information on how to use vowel drills to facilit

I ran across this interesting article in Advance Magazine for Speech-Language Pathologists. It’s an interesting intersection between history, lingusistics, speech and the /r/ sound. Researchers from Baylor University used historical recordings to trend pronunciation of /r/ and peg such pronunciation