Important Considerations For Home Practice

At Home Speech Practice Resources

Visual Phonics 

Using Literacy to Support Articulation

Egg Articulation  

a fun way to practice our target sounds

A tutorial for parents 

Hide and find articulation exercise that kids love. 

Materials: 

• Plastic Eggs, egg carton/basket/other container, items to place inside the egg, bin, or other container. 

Alternative if you don't have eggs: 

• Sensory Bin- Fill a container with: rice, beans, sand, dirt, water, shaving cream, plastic grass, cotton balls, etc.  Throw the items inside the sensory bin and have your child pull out items to label, discuss, use in phrases/sentences if they are able. 

Alternative if you don't have small toys that fit in eggs:

• Fill the eggs with stickers, pictures, items you've cut out of magazines, or anything else that targets the sound they are working on. 

Remember: 

• Be creative - if you don't have items that obviously target the sound(s) your child is working on, look for details within items that may target the sound. For example, if your child is targeting the sound /k/ and you have a giraffe, you can talk about the giraffe's long neck (the target sound is at the end of the word neck)!

• Focus on the target sound - if your childs target sound is /t/ and you have a cat but your child says, "dat" you praise the correct production of the /t/ and address the /k/ at another time. 

• Recast - Use your recasting skills. If your child does not produce the target sound /t/ correctly, you can recast it back to them, "You found a cat!" You can also use the recast expansion skill, "You found a cat! I like cats! That cat is yellow." By expanding your recast, you have just modeled the correct production of the target sound /t/ four times in a structured way using short phrases which will help your child process the sound. Similarly, to the example given if your child produces another sound in the word incorrectly, you ignore it (for now), praise the correct production of the target word, and then recast the phrase back to your child, "You found a cat!" 

• Have fun! The goal is to target sounds your child needs to practice while having fun. If your child becomes resistant or doesn't want to participate don't force it. 

Final Consonant Deletion Practice Pages

Final consonant deletion is a phonological process (speech sound error pattern) where the final or last consonant of a word is deleted or left off. Some examples of final consonant deletion include a child saying:

• "moo" for moon

• "A" for eight

• "bow" for boat

Use the Visual support download to help you remember to say your final sound, or you can make your own by drawing  a line with a square at the end. If you need to use the visual support see if you can say your word three times with the visual support and then one time without. If you are successful, keep trying to say your words without the visual support and see how many times you can say the word without using the visual support. 

Multisyllabic Word Practice

Use the resources provided (or come up with your own) to practice saying each syllable of the word. 

Below each picture you will find "pacing" spots which are visual cues for children to touch while saying each syllable of the word (e.g., BUM-BLE-BEE). 

If you practice saying other multisyllabic words that don't have the pacing spots (like the last page attached to the resources provided), make your own! You can use paper, markers, post it notes, stickers, etc.; be creative! Or print out a copy of our three ticket pacing board.

Other Links to practice worksheets

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