This paper describes the effectiveness of a speech therapy approach that can be especially useful for children who are having difficulties making their first sounds.
Research suggests that if a child is encouraged to quickly imitate motor behavior, then they may be more receptive to independently requesting an item through vocalization (mand). This paper reports the results of a study to determine whether using motor imitation before modeling speech is effective in teaching speech. In other words, is it helpful to first have a child mimic grunts and sounds before actually attempting to mimic speech? The generalized motor imitation tactic was combined with mand training procedures. The result of the study was that five elementary school-aged children could be taught to vocalize when instruction began with a generalized motor imitation sequence. Specifically, all participants were able to learn to imitate modeled sounds and independently use speech to request items (mands).
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Responding to generalized imitation/sounds that goes with words besides oink with pig, moo with a cow, etc.
Feb 12, 2010 by Anonymousexample teaching the language therapist to dote on words that have long and short vowel meanings of two or more syllables, practice this step over and over with an essay and read aloud using breaths and syllable enunciations and differ them with nasal noises and use pictures of animals with sounds and nature that makes sounds of wind, raindrops, person makes sounds of things, stuff use familiar auto car sounds, honking and go over breathing normal with opinion of english syllable usage and preference of ongoing speech used as casual communicatives. Thanks kathy. p.s. syllables are great and have that ambience and effect on toning things down when we see a crisis arriving at the door, don't we? okay my favorite is chry san thi mum wow a mouthful and I do have to take a breath after forcing that word around.
Responding to generalized imitation/sounds that goes with words besides oink with pig, moo with a cow, etc.
Feb 12, 2010 by Anonymousexample teaching the language therapist to dote on words that have long and short vowel meanings of two or more syllables, practice this step over and over with an essay and read aloud using breaths and syllable enunciations and differ them with nasal noises and use pictures of animals with sounds and nature that makes sounds of wind, raindrops, person makes sounds of things, stuff use familiar auto car sounds, honking and go over breathing normal with opinion of english syllable usage and preference of ongoing speech used as casual communicatives. Thanks kathy. p.s. syllables are great and have that ambience and effect on toning things down when we see a crisis arriving at the door, don't we? okay my favorite is chry san thi mum wow a mouthful and I do have to take a breath after forcing that word around.