Developing Speech and Language Skills - Noel's ESL eBook Library

Phoneme FactoryThe book is designed to be used as a resource, so select the parts thatare relevant to you.For speech and language therapists (SLTs) and school staffworking in collaboration with SLTsWhen teachers and learningsupport staff have beenprovided with advice aboutthe speech patterns a childis using from an SLTActivities to use with achild who can reliablychange theirpronunciations of words sothey sound closer to theadult pronunciationWhen SLTs have diagnosednon-developmental speechpatternsIf an SLT has assessed achild, and identified theerror patterns in theirspeech, ideas for activitiesto address specific errorpatterns can be found inChapters 7–14.• Chapter 7 Stopping• Chapter 8 Fronting andbacking• Chapter 9 Finalconsonant deletion• Chapter 10 Gliding• Chapter 11Deaffrication• Chapter 12 Contextsensitive voicing• Chapter 13Approximant clusterreduction• Chapter 14 ‘s’ clusterreductionInformation about how tohelp children practise,generalise and rememberto use new sound patternscan be found in Chapter15. Activities designed tohelp a child practise newspeech patterns in groupand whole-class activitiesare provided for mostspeech sounds on the CD.Most of the speechpatterns addressed inChapters 7–14 aredevelopmental. Pairs andsets of words to addressnon-developmentalpatterns such as initialconsonant deletion can befound on the CD, bysearching ‘Sets of wordsby vowel’. SLTs can thenadvise on the pairs andsets of words that couldbe used in listening anddiscrimination activities toaddress these moreunusual patterns.Figure 2 How to use this book to provide activities for children with phonologicalimpairments6