For example, reoccurring ear infections, increased fluid in the ears, excessive ear wax, physical growth and development, and attention issues are just a few examples to explain why some children need months, sometimes years to master a sound. Some children need more time to master sounds with any number of factors influencing that timeline. Notice the wide range for development of each sound target. The chart pictured below is my all-time favorite speech development reference tool for parents. If your child has not mastered sounds expected for his age, then he will likely score in a range that suggests therapy would be appropriate. Most of the time, a child with an articulation delay can produce vowels accurately, but not consonant sounds. When speech pathologists evaluate a child to determine if an articulation delay is present, we administer a test battery containing all consonant sound targets. Talk with your pediatrician, child’s teacher, and/ or speech pathologist if you have questions and concerns specific to your child. There are many factors that we assess when developing an appropriate treatment plan. Please note that this post does not take the place of a comprehensive and diagnostic evaluation for your child. These conditions are markedly different than motor speech disorders and as such, evaluation, treatment planning, and homework practice for articulation and phonological delays are unique and precise. To read more about Phonological Processes, see “What are Phonological Processes” on Mommy Speech Therapy.In this post, I will define articulation and phonological speech disorders, share age expectations for sound and phonological developments, and discuss the role you play in working speech goals at home once your child has been found eligible for speech services through either an early intervention team or school system because of an articulation or phonological assessment. We hope all you fabulous SLP’s will take advantage of this powerful feature as you create lists to meet the needs of your students! The ability to create custom lists in the “Multiple Sounds” program is a favorite feature among our users. Hopefully this helps you better understand the “Multiple Sounds” feature in Articulation Station and how it gives you the freedom to create client specific word lists for children with phonological disorders as well as children with other speech and language disorders. The name of the customized list also will be listed next to the student’s score on their data sheet for easy data tracking. The name of the customized list appears on the right side so that it can be identified during the therapy session. Select the word list by tapping it and then press begin to review the customized list. Notice we can also come back and edit our lists from this screen as well. This list will be saved under “Saved Word Lists” to access now, or later. After we have selected the words, we can click on the “save list” button and give the list a name. Here, we have selected the words we would like to practice with little Billy for the phonological process of stopping. Words can be selected or deselected by tapping each one individually, or by pressing the “deselect all” button in the bottom left corner and then selecting the words to be included in the targeted phonological process. Notice that all of the words are selected by default. This will allow us to choose the specific words we want to be included in the list. Once we have selected all the sounds, and sound positions we want included in our list we can press the “list” icon in the bottom right corner to edit the list further. Then we select the sound position we want to target these sounds in. Multiple sounds can then be selected to be included in word lists targeting phonological processes.įor example, let’s say we are working with little Billy who exhibits the phonological process of stopping with the sounds /s/ /z/ and /sh/ in speech, we can select these sounds from the left side of the screen. This button looks like a speech bubble with a plus sign on the side of it. To begin, select the multiple sounds activity button at the bottom of the home screen. If that’s the case, no problem you can customize Articulation Station to meet their needs. Some clients may even have a very specific set of words that need to be targeted within a phonological process. Instead, Articulation Station puts the Speech Language Pathologist in the driver’s seat, knowing that each client is different with their own specific needs. There are no menus with the phonological processes laid out and predetermined for you. If you are looking for a good app to target phonological processes you will be pleased to know that Articulation Station does that too! Now you may be thinking,”I haven’t seen phonological processes on any of the menus in Articulation Station,” and you’re right.
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