Forever Change the Way You Do Articulation Therapy

And it’s supported by research. Doesn’t get much better than that.

For years I’ve been coming up with ideas on how to integrate working on articulation skills with other areas. Why work on just one skill when you can work on multiple? It’s doing articulation therapy SMART.

Take my Articulation Cards using Tier 2 Vocabulary. Students will simultaneously work on articulation WHILE improving their vocabulary.

Or these Nonfiction Texts with Articulation Targets. Students work on articulation WHILE improving reading comprehension.

A year ago, I started looking at the research linking phonological awareness skills with articulation skills. Did you know that studies have determined directly working on phonological awareness skills is also shown to concurrently increase speech intelligibility and improve articulation skills (Gillon, 2005)? Talk about doing articulation therapy SMART.

I’ve been busy these last few months working on a resource that will forever change the way I do articulation therapy. I’ve been trying it out on a few students and the results I’ve seen have been phenomenal.

Phonological Awareness Articulation Intervention

This brand new way of multitasking articulation therapy is extremely effective. In my own sessions, I’ve noticed students make the most progress when the articulation prompts are embedded in other tasks. It pushes them to another level because it is then on the student to locate his sound and produce it correctly, instead of the therapist simply handing him the sound. In this resource, students work on phonological awareness skills without even realizing they are working on articulation and BOTH improve.

Each sound is broken into 4 areas of phonological awareness:

1. Oral
   • Repeating single syllable sentences
   • Repeating multi-syllable sentences
   • Segmenting words in single syllable sentences
   • Segmenting words in multi-syllable sentences
2. Syllables
   • Blending syllables
   • Segmenting syllables
   • Deleting syllables
3. Phonemes
   • Identification of phonemes
   • Blending phonemes
   • Segmenting phonemes
   • Deletion of phonemes
   • Addition of phonemes
   • Manipulation of phonemes
4. Rhyming
   • Recognize rhymes
   • Selecting rhymes
   • Generating rhymes

You can watch a quick video on it below:

Needless to say, this packet is taking me a bit of time to complete. The entire packet of 20 sounds will be complete in October 2018 with over 350 pages!

This resource is grouped by sounds. Currently, I have the following packets completed, which you can purchase individually:

• /m,b,p/
• /t,d/

Each sound costs $4, which you can purchase in these individual packets (so a 2-sound packet costs $8, a 3-sound packet costs $12, and so on).

For the bundle of the entire 20 sounds, that would make this packet $80 (which, for the results you will see, is still a good deal). However, I’m doing this a little bit differently and making it into a growing bundle for those of you who don’t want to wait until October to start using this resource if you want the entire 20 sounds. Each time I add a group of sounds, the price will increase. So, it’s absolutely the best deal to buy this packet early, before more sounds get added.

Buying the entire 20-sound BUNDLE now contains /m,b,p,t,d/ and costs $55, which is the LOWEST price it will ever be.

These packets will be added:

• /k,g/ by July 2018 making the bundle price $58
• /f,v/ by August 2018 making the bundle price $60
• /l, l-blends/ by August 2018 making the bundle price $63
• /s,z, s-blends/ by September 2018 making the bundle price $65
• /sh,ch,th,j/ by October 2018 making the bundle price $68
• /r, r-blends/ by October 2018 making the bundle price $70

This was the best way I could figure out how to share this packet with those who just want to try it out on a few sounds and also with those who know they want the entire bundle of sounds so I hope the pricing makes sense!

Because of it’s effectiveness and support by research, this one might be a good one to ask your district to fund, and don’t forget to take advantage of the multiple license discount!

I am thrilled about this resource (it might just be one of my favorites in my shop) and KNOW you will have great results with your articulation students. Email me at nrallison@gmail.com with ANY and ALL questions you might have!