A Journey Through Speech Sounds – Articulation Pack

Description

Fun, colourful and easy to use resource designed to help children with speech sound difficulties learn to form each sound – in isolation and at beginning, middle and end of words. Throughout this colourful, attractive resource, each speech sound is targeted in a fun, straightforward way and is broken down into easily digestible components:

helping children to form the sound in isolation,
producing the sound with a vowel,
forming the sound at the end, middle and beginning of a word.

A Journey Through Speech Sounds follows a step by step approach, including full instructions, and fun tips and tricks to use along the way! Children are invited to meet our beautifully illustrated (and friendly!) Vowel Monsters. The aim is that through targeted use of this resource, children with speech sound difficulties will be enabled to achieve their therapy goals and reach their full communication potential.

For more information see below

Ref: PA19 Download Sample

Take a Journey Through Speech Sounds and meet our beautifully illustrated Vowel Monsters! Each Vowel Monster has a distinctive – and amusing – appearance and sound. For example, meet our “er” monster – he’s made out of slime and when you touch him you say “er”! And our “u” monster – that’s the sound he makes when he lifts something heavy.

The following speech sounds are included:

Plosive Consonants P/B/T/D/K/G
Nasal Consonants M/N
Approximant Consonants W/R/Y

No matter which speech sounds you wish to target, this resource splits the process down into the same eight easily digestible steps. Detailed and easy to follow, step by step instructions for each speech sound are included in the main body of the pack.

You will also find fun tips and tricks to use along the way! For example, when introducing the ‘m’ sound :”When you are hungry and you are about to eat a delicious meal, you say a yummy noise ‘m m m…’ Put your lips together and breathe out and you will hear it. To help you know you are making the sound correctly, place your finger under your nose and you will feel warm air under your nose. You can also try placing a small mirror under your nose and when you say the ‘mmm…’ sound the mirror will mist up.

Step 1 Producing the target consonant sound on its own.
Step 2 Say ‘hello’ to the vowel monsters! What do they look like and what do they sound like?
Step 3 Producing the vowel + target consonant sound
Step 4 Practicing the target consonant sound at the end of a word
Step 5 Produce the vowel + target consonant sound + vowel
Step 6 Practicing the target consonant sound in the middle of a word
Step 7 Producing the target consonant sound + vowel
Step 8 Practicing the target consonant sound at the beginning of a word.

A Journey Through Speech Sounds is devised and illustrated by Misha Amin, an experienced, practising Speech and Language Therapist, working in a private practice in North West London. Misha delivers therapy to children in many settings, including pre-school, primary school, special school, moderate learning disability and secondary school settings. Her passion lies in working with pre-school/primary school age children, and her particular area of expertise is in the assessment of, and intervention for, speech sound difficulties. Her aim is to make speech sound therapy intervention fun and easy to understand for her clients and their parents/carers.

Working with a range of children in a variety of settings, Misha has seen the importance of targeting early speech sound disorders/delays in children clearly demonstrated. Merging her experience as a speech and language therapist with her talent for drawing and creativity, the idea for the Black Sheep Press resource: ‘A Journey Through Speech Sounds’ was born!

Misha has used this approach with great success in her own practice. Children love the colourful, attractive pictures and both parents and teaching professionals have found it a fun way to help teach children how to produce and use the sounds.