Welcome to The Entire World of R Blog!
Are you a speech-language pathologist, special education teacher, English-as-a-second language instructor or parent of a child with an “r” articulation disorder?
Does /r/ cause you problems? Whether you call it vocalic r, r-controlled vowels, vowel-r, or r-colored vowel, we hope this blog will help you. This site is dedicated to all things /r/. This is a place to discuss your frustrations and find (hopefully) solutions.
What problems do you have? Please share!
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I am a speech-language pathologist and am looking for an slp for my nephew who lives in Costa Mesa, CA (near Newport Beach). If you could recommend a few to choose from I would really appreciate it. He had supposedly “graduated” from speech therapy for /r/ a year or 2 ago and the problem has recently resurfaced.
thank you,
joy hickerson
Sorry, but I don’t have any contacts of SLPs doing private practice speech therapy in Orange County, CA. Perhaps someone will see this post and respond? If any does, please respond.
How old is your nephew? Which /r/’s is he having trouble with? Perhaps a little maintenance work is all that is needed?
Thank you for your response. I have since started working with him myself and he is making progress. He has the most difficulty with the final position of words and /er/ /or/ combinations. I have noticed that he is not even able to get his entire tongue up to touch the roof of his mouth. Definitely some motor issues going on (he has already had his frenulum clipped). It has improved his overall intelligiblity and he is making progress so I am confident that we can get at least a really close approximation even if he is not able to get the proper placement. Thanks for your input!
Not sure how to handle a 10 year old with a very distorted vocalic R- with an obvious “jaw-slide”. Tongue positioning is
also an issue. Any ideas? thanks! I do use the pictures
and diagrams from “The Entire World od R”
Did you administer the Entire World of R advanced screening with the student? If so, what were the results? Did the student make a retroflexed (backward C tongue position) or a retracted /r/ (tongue bunched up like a mountain)?
The retroflexed and retracted tongue position diagrams are contained in both the Entire World of R Book of Elicitation Techniques and The Entire World of R Instructional Workbook.
Try these ideas first.