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Posted by Ripley on October 30, 2009, 5:13 pm, in reply to "Please help--working with a young child who approximates"
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Those approximations don't seem too bad for me if he really has autism. His productions of apple, glue, and blue sound pretty age-appropriate since a lot of two year olds don't use /l/.
I would start with trying to improve his consistency for sounds he knows. So "bus" should start with /b/ since he can do /b/.
I would use ALL play activities to elicit any words / sounds you want. So for "bus" play with a bus or sing the "Wheels" song. I don't use any pictures with kids under 3 unless they're in a book. Also some kids have major difficulty with final consonants so you might want to work on improving syllable use first. Hodson recommends using spondees (compound words such as snowman, baseball, cupcake, pancake, etc, words with equal stress) and I found that to be very effective. I like to use play dough when working on that since you can make lots of things with it. You might also want to expand his language before worrying too much about artic. Does he use many phrases? You could work on useful phrases like "put it in," dump it out, let's go/ car go, you go, I go, etc during play activities. Good luck!
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