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Posted by dawnslp
on August 27, 2009, 7:40 pm, in reply to "Re: Ideas for articulation/phonology tx - 2years; 8month boy"
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I disagree a little with both posts above as these are the children that can make the MOST progress in a really short amount of time if you use Cycles. I regularly work on /k/ and /g/ (if stimulable), s-blends, /r/, and /l/ with children this age IF they evidence a high score on a phonological measure and their speech is difficult to understand. Yes this child is young, but how is his intelligibility to his mom? To strangers? Is he showing signs of frustration? Norms are great, but they are only one part of the picture. I have had great success with this population using Cycles. It is the only program I use with phonology and it is amazing b/c you only target words yet see carryover to conversation. You can get my documents from my workshop on the approach here:
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I do agree that velars are the hardest to elicit in these kids sometimes and they have to be put on the back burner. It sounds like that may be the case with this child. You can still stimulate like "trouble" said above. Each child is different and you never know when they will get it. I currently have a 2 1/2 year old producing velars in all positions and we only targeted them for two sessions. If you use Cycles, you only target sounds that are stimulable and you target them in CVC (if they can) or CV, VC. I never target sounds in isolation because the child is not going to produce it that way. I also believe it to be harder. I always elicit them with real words or nonsense words (long vowel plus sound+ t + ay, t + ee, t + ie, t + oe, t + oo ).
You would write down each process the child has trouble with and then write down the sounds you need to target under that process. You only spend two-30 minute sessions on each sound and then you move on until you hit every sound in every (primary) process. Then you start over. That is why it's called Cycles. Read my information on the link above. There is a lot of links there, so you will have to scroll through to find information on Cycles for Phonology and there is more than one post for it as I have guidelines there as well.
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