Trauma Therapy by Trish
Award Winning Emotional Wellbeing & Educational Support Services
This is a barrier to learning...
- Making an incorrect letter sound can delay phonics, and therefore blending and fluent reading.
- Reading delays and difficulties impact all areas of the curriculum.
- Difficulties with reading can lead to a "perceived dislike" of reading for enjoyment.
- Confidence and self-esteem can be impacted and independence is reduced.
- Being misheard or misunderstood when speaking can lead to frustration, shame, lack of confidence and disengagement through fear.
- Frustration can lead to unwanted behaviours.
- Bullying is likely to occur, the older a child gets without support to correct the sound.
Trauma Therapy by Trish is not a Speech Therapist, and would always encourage confirmation from one as to whether this support may be helpful, if in any doubt. This support can help with individual sound production errors, for example where a substitute sound is used.
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Trained in Cued Articulation
(helping Speech Sound Mechanics)
In order to make the required sounds for speech, we have to make the right shapes with our mouths and put our tongues in the right place. These develop normally for most children and become habitual so we don't have to think about the individual sounds when we speak.
Some children may hear the sound incorrectly initially or produce the sound incorrectly, and may need some guidance, prompts and practice to form the new habit of making the correct sound.
Cued Articulation provides a visual prompt with the hand as a reminder of how to make the sound in the mouth, encouraging practice and a new habit. Intervention support would include using the Cue, alongside activities and games to practice the sound correctly.