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Speech articulation students in third grade and older should have a sheet of ideas for working on speech sounds at home. For eLearning days, please complete ten minutes' worth of activities on this sheet. Children younger than third grade should listen as someone reads aloud to them and follow the links on my website for speech and language activities at home. https://www.readingrockets.org/article/activities-encourage-speech-and-language-development https://www.asha.org/public/speech/disorders/Preschool-Language-Disorders/#tips In speech therapy, I aim to work with each student at the level at which they can make progress with my support without becoming too frustrated. Learning new motor patterns for speech sounds, or practicing the correct use of pronouns, is hard work. Children naturally love to learn and usually want to please adults. When speech/language therapy is fun, children learn. The simple definition of the "Zone of Proximal Development," first discussed by Vygotsky, is included in the link below. In order to make the changes necessary to remediate speech and language errors, I help my students work on skills at the level at which they can be successful with my support. The graphic (below) about goals is another way of thinking about our work in therapy. As a parent, you might wonder why your child can say a certain sound correctly in one word but not in another. Or, he might speak clearly when saying a single word at a time but when he starts speaking quickly in conversation, the clarity of your child's speech disintegrates. In therapy, a lot happens behind the scenes in what I plan for each student to do and the scaffolding (support) I provide to help the student attain the goals. Therapy is a process of breaking down the steps needed to reach the goal. I hope the links below might be helpful in understanding the process a little better. They might shed some light on why it is not so simple as asking your child to, "Say it again, the right way." Please reach out to me with any questions you have. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_proximal_development https://petra8paleo.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/zone-of-proximal-development-5.png |
