These videos can be used to help you help your child with the /r/ sound and the /s/ sound. If you feel stuck on how to help or what to tell your child, please watch to get some ideas.

The /r/ sound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSqFOQzHnQw&list=PLVpSodI2oFQTUQwuHXvrwlW3YUQNMZKba

The /s/ sound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc8jEvC7jHs

Link to SESSpeechandlanguage.blogspot.com sesspeechandlanguage.blogspot.com/

Articulation Activities

Below is a list of suggestions for using pictures and words to help your child practice their target sound and carryover the sound to everyday use. When practicing these activities your child should be aware that you are listening for a correct production and that you will ask them to try again if they make an error. Keep the mood light and fun.

1.Look at family pictures and have your child name all the people or items that they see that has their sound somewhere in the word. For those kids working at a sentence level have them describe the picture using their sound correctly.

2.Using index cards make games. Write words or have your child write words with their sound in them. Word lists might be found online or just think or your own fun words to use. Use these cards when playing board games so that on each turn they have to say the word a few times or make up a sentence. Silly sentences are the most fun. If you make a duplicate set of cards, memory or matching games can be played.

3.Using the same set of cards or objects create a grab bag activity. First they can decorate a paper bag or gift bag by writing words, cutting pictures out from magazines or drawing pictures of things with their sounds in them. Place the cards or objects in the bag and take turns choosing an item. When it's your turn you describe the word so the child has to guess the word saying their sound correctly. They may say it three times or make a sentence up with the word. When it is their turn and they have to describe challenge them by saying that you will be listening to all of the words they use with their target sound and have them correct any or a few that they make incorrectly.

4.Eye spy is a fun game to play using words with their target sounds using the same ideas as above.

5.Let your child pick out a joke book or riddle book and read you jokes making sure their sound is made correctly

6.Have your child read one page a day from their chapter book making their sound correctly as they read aloud to you.

7.Use the cards made above in step 2 (making a duplicate set) to play go fish so they have to practice the word with every question.

8.Make up funny tongue twisters with words with target sounds such as “Someone sat softly on Sally's sister.”

9.For those children who need to carryover the sound to everyday conversations tell your child that you will time them (five minutes is plenty) while you have a conversation about a book they are reading, a show they watched or a game they played. Warn them that you will stop them when you hear them make an error on the sound and that you will be asking them to try again.

10.Let them help you do everyday activities such as making a grocery list or following a recipe going over all the words with their target sound so they can practice it.

11. Kids love their devices. Have them practice these activities and record themselves. They can listen back and rerecord trying to avoid the mistakes they made once.

12. Have your child read their homework out loud before they start it. This is a good habit for knowing what to do anyway. Any homework will do.

Remember that five minutes a day everyday can make a difference in your child's progress with speech production and how they attend to their own speaking behaviors.