Did You Know? -Cochear America-Speech Sounds
http://www.cochlearamericas.com/Support/2294.asp
Designed by Nancy Caleffe-Schenck, M.Ed. CCC-A, Cert.AVT
and Dian Baker, MA, CCC-SLP, Cert AVT
Speech Sounds is a great resource to reference when focussing in on a particular speech sound. It offers teachers/SLP's a variety of ideas to help build the targets throughout the school day or therapy session.
Speech Sounds was designed to be used with younger children ages 1 through 5, but can be adapted for older children. The authors do indicate that prior to using this supplement the child should have an auditory foundation and they do list a variety of auditory activities they should be able to do prior to using it.
Speech Sounds is a way to focus on teaching speech through listening to maximixe a child's auditory potential or auditory self-monitoring of speech.
They have separated the 20 speech sounds into individual units. Creating a laudary list of child friendly words that contain the speech sound in the initial, midial and final positions. Each Speech Sounds unit incoporates; child friendly words, daily routines, activities, games and toys, songs and rhymes, a popular children's book, communication building activites for the book as well as additional books.
The entire Speech Sounds booklet can be downloaded for free off of the Cochear America's Website. Once printed it can be used as an easy resource guide for SLP's and DHH teacher's alike.
