Comments for Entire World of R http://entireworldofr.wordpress.com All About /r/ and Vocalic /r/ Speech Therapy Weblog Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:20:27 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Got a Question about Vocalic R Articulation Disorders for 2009-2010 School Year? by ristuccia http://entireworldofr.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/35/#comment-291 ristuccia Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:20:27 +0000 http://entireworldofr.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/35/#comment-291 Mommawomma, Here's a link to an article on <a href="http://www.sayitright.org/article-R_at_Home.html" rel="nofollow">R at Home </a>[http://www.sayitright.org/article-R_at_Home.html] that should give you some suggestions. While I always recommend getting an evaluation conducted by a competent speech-language patholist (SLP) there's no reason an informed parent should not be able to advance their child at home. Your child's SLP should be providing some homework and suggestions for transfering the positive results in the therapy into the real world. Ultimately, especially at age 11, your daughter will have to take responsibility for her own speech. If she can articulate the sounds correctly, then she can do it. She'll just have to break the habit of lazy speech. One trick is to have her put the rubber band on her wrist. For every misproduction, she should make a gentle snap just to remind herself to be more aware. Slowing down her speech should help as well. I don't have any experience with enlarged tonsils/adeniods or allergies affecting articulation. Perhaps someone reading this might? Please share. If she can't discern the difference correct/incorrect /r/'s, perhaps she's not getting enough specific treatment on targeted sounds. In my progam, we seprate out all 21 vocalic /r/'s (plus the 11 /r/ blends). It's important to target only a single sound at a time. The intensive treatment on only a single sound is what I find promotes the most progress. More information can be found <a href="http://www.sayitright.org/R_Phonetic_Consistency.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. [http://www.sayitright.org/R_Phonetic_Consistency.html] Hope this helps. Christine Mommawomma,

Here’s a link to an article on R at Home [http://www.sayitright.org/article-R_at_Home.html] that should give you some suggestions. While I always recommend getting an evaluation conducted by a competent speech-language patholist (SLP) there’s no reason an informed parent should not be able to advance their child at home.

Your child’s SLP should be providing some homework and suggestions for transfering the positive results in the therapy into the real world.

Ultimately, especially at age 11, your daughter will have to take responsibility for her own speech. If she can articulate the sounds correctly, then she can do it. She’ll just have to break the habit of lazy speech. One trick is to have her put the rubber band on her wrist. For every misproduction, she should make a gentle snap just to remind herself to be more aware. Slowing down her speech should help as well.

I don’t have any experience with enlarged tonsils/adeniods or allergies affecting articulation. Perhaps someone reading this might? Please share.

If she can’t discern the difference correct/incorrect /r/’s, perhaps she’s not getting enough specific treatment on targeted sounds. In my progam, we seprate out all 21 vocalic /r/’s (plus the 11 /r/ blends). It’s important to target only a single sound at a time. The intensive treatment on only a single sound is what I find promotes the most progress. More information can be found here. [http://www.sayitright.org/R_Phonetic_Consistency.html]

Hope this helps.

Christine

]]> Comment on Got a Question about Vocalic R Articulation Disorders for 2009-2010 School Year? by mommawomma http://entireworldofr.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/35/#comment-290 mommawomma Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:38:15 +0000 http://entireworldofr.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/35/#comment-290 Just thought of another question - in your experience, do allergies or enlarged tonsils/adenoids contribute to articulation issues? While my daughter can model an R correctly, she says she cannot discern the difference between the correct one and incorrect one. Her hearing has been professionally and extensively tested and found to be within normal limits. Our ENT did mention that she has abnormally large adenoids, but it was not a concern because she is not frequently ill. However, a coworker's son recently had his tonsils removed due to speech issues. This seems odd to me and our SLP has not heard of this. Just thought of another question – in your experience, do allergies or enlarged tonsils/adenoids contribute to articulation issues? While my daughter can model an R correctly, she says she cannot discern the difference between the correct one and incorrect one. Her hearing has been professionally and extensively tested and found to be within normal limits. Our ENT did mention that she has abnormally large adenoids, but it was not a concern because she is not frequently ill. However, a coworker’s son recently had his tonsils removed due to speech issues. This seems odd to me and our SLP has not heard of this.

]]> Comment on Got a Question about Vocalic R Articulation Disorders for 2009-2010 School Year? by mommawomma http://entireworldofr.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/35/#comment-289 mommawomma Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:26:49 +0000 http://entireworldofr.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/35/#comment-289 Any suggestions on how parents can help with R articulation? My 11 year old is still struggling specifically with carryover. She has speech therapy 3x week - one 1 hour session with a private SLP and two 20 minutes group sessions at school. When practicing, her Rs sound terrific, but in general conversation she slips back into lazy Rs. I've tried positive reinforcement - a star for self corrected Rs and 5 stars equals a treat - but this has not been successful. Any suggestions on how parents can help with R articulation? My 11 year old is still struggling specifically with carryover. She has speech therapy 3x week – one 1 hour session with a private SLP and two 20 minutes group sessions at school. When practicing, her Rs sound terrific, but in general conversation she slips back into lazy Rs. I’ve tried positive reinforcement – a star for self corrected Rs and 5 stars equals a treat – but this has not been successful.

]]> Comment on Got a Question about Vocalic R Articulation Disorders? 2007-Aug 2008 by WR http://entireworldofr.wordpress.com/2007/03/27/got-a-question-about-vocalic-r-articulation-disorders-ask-mrs-r/#comment-286 WR Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:00:17 +0000 http://entireworldofr.wordpress.com/2007/03/27/got-a-question-about-vocalic-r-articulation-disorders-ask-mrs-r/#comment-286 Thanks for that Christine. I'll give that a try with her! Cheers, Wilma Thanks for that Christine. I’ll give that a try with her!

Cheers, Wilma

]]> Comment on Got a Question about Vocalic R Articulation Disorders? 2007-Aug 2008 by ristuccia http://entireworldofr.wordpress.com/2007/03/27/got-a-question-about-vocalic-r-articulation-disorders-ask-mrs-r/#comment-285 ristuccia Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:36:41 +0000 http://entireworldofr.wordpress.com/2007/03/27/got-a-question-about-vocalic-r-articulation-disorders-ask-mrs-r/#comment-285 Wilm, It's good that she can discriminate the sounds. One solution is to have your daughter smile when saying prevocalic /r/. If the child is rounding her lips then the word will sound like a /w/. If she smiles and looks in a mirror she will be able to see the difference between /r/ and /w/. Christine Wilm,

It’s good that she can discriminate the sounds. One solution is to have your daughter smile when saying prevocalic /r/. If the child is rounding her lips then the word will sound like a /w/. If she smiles and looks in a mirror she will be able to see the difference between /r/ and /w/.

Christine

]]> Comment on Got a Question about Vocalic R Articulation Disorders? 2007-Aug 2008 by WR http://entireworldofr.wordpress.com/2007/03/27/got-a-question-about-vocalic-r-articulation-disorders-ask-mrs-r/#comment-282 WR Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:45:19 +0000 http://entireworldofr.wordpress.com/2007/03/27/got-a-question-about-vocalic-r-articulation-disorders-ask-mrs-r/#comment-282 Thanks for that Christine. I've tried the words that you mentioned - she can hear the difference no problem (if I try and say "I will weed a book" instead of read, she laughs and tells me I'm saying it wrong), but she doesn't seem to know how to make the r sound particularly for words starting with an r. How do I explain to her how to make the sound? Tip of the tongue on the roof of her mouth? Sorry to ask so many questions! Wilm Thanks for that Christine.
I’ve tried the words that you mentioned – she can hear the difference no problem (if I try and say “I will weed a book” instead of read, she laughs and tells me I’m saying it wrong), but she doesn’t seem to know how to make the r sound particularly for words starting with an r.

How do I explain to her how to make the sound? Tip of the tongue on the roof of her mouth?

Sorry to ask so many questions!

Wilm

]]> Comment on Got a Question about Vocalic R Articulation Disorders? 2007-Aug 2008 by ristuccia http://entireworldofr.wordpress.com/2007/03/27/got-a-question-about-vocalic-r-articulation-disorders-ask-mrs-r/#comment-280 ristuccia Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:29:57 +0000 http://entireworldofr.wordpress.com/2007/03/27/got-a-question-about-vocalic-r-articulation-disorders-ask-mrs-r/#comment-280 The /r/ sounds does develop later than other sounds, so there is the possibility that it will self correct. However, it’s a good idea to provide a little help as well. If she’s unintelligible, then you should have her evaluated by a speech-language pathologist. Otherwise, you should try modeling and then asking her to repeat /r/ and /w/ words, such as ride/wide, whip/rip, ring/wing, run/won, read/weed, etc. Contrasting the words should help her hear the difference so that she can learn to self-correct. Christine The /r/ sounds does develop later than other sounds, so there is the possibility that it will self correct. However, it’s a good idea to provide a little help as well. If she’s unintelligible, then you should have her evaluated by a speech-language pathologist. Otherwise, you should try modeling and then asking her to repeat /r/ and /w/ words, such as ride/wide, whip/rip, ring/wing, run/won, read/weed, etc. Contrasting the words should help her hear the difference so that she can learn to self-correct.

Christine

]]> Comment on Got a Question about Vocalic R Articulation Disorders? Ask Mrs. R. Questions for 2008-2009 School Year by ristuccia http://entireworldofr.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/ask-mrs-r-got-a-question-about-vocalic-r-articulation-disorders/#comment-278 ristuccia Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:27:10 +0000 http://entireworldofr.wordpress.com/?p=28#comment-278 Shauna, The /r/ sounds does develop later than other sounds, so there is the possibility that it will self correct. However, it's a good idea to provide a little help as well. If she's unintelligible, then you should have her evaluated by a speech-language pathologist. Otherwise, you should try modeling and then asking her to repeat /r/ and /w/ words, such as ride/wide, whip/rip, ring/wing, run/won, read/weed, etc. Contrasting the words should help her hear the difference so that she can learn to self-correct. Christine Shauna,

The /r/ sounds does develop later than other sounds, so there is the possibility that it will self correct. However, it’s a good idea to provide a little help as well. If she’s unintelligible, then you should have her evaluated by a speech-language pathologist. Otherwise, you should try modeling and then asking her to repeat /r/ and /w/ words, such as ride/wide, whip/rip, ring/wing, run/won, read/weed, etc. Contrasting the words should help her hear the difference so that she can learn to self-correct.

Christine

]]> Comment on Got a Question about Vocalic R Articulation Disorders? 2007-Aug 2008 by WR http://entireworldofr.wordpress.com/2007/03/27/got-a-question-about-vocalic-r-articulation-disorders-ask-mrs-r/#comment-276 WR Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:55:38 +0000 http://entireworldofr.wordpress.com/2007/03/27/got-a-question-about-vocalic-r-articulation-disorders-ask-mrs-r/#comment-276 Hi, Generally at what age should a child be saying /r/ sounds well? My daughter turned 5 recently and I notice that she often uses a w instead of a r (eg wabbit) and uses a w instead of an r in her name (her name is Marieke). Should I do something about this now or should I wait until she is a bit older? Thanks Hi,

Generally at what age should a child be saying /r/ sounds well?

My daughter turned 5 recently and I notice that she often uses a w instead of a r (eg wabbit) and uses a w instead of an r in her name (her name is Marieke).

Should I do something about this now or should I wait until she is a bit older?

Thanks

]]> Comment on Got a Question about Vocalic R Articulation Disorders? 2007-Aug 2008 by ristuccia http://entireworldofr.wordpress.com/2007/03/27/got-a-question-about-vocalic-r-articulation-disorders-ask-mrs-r/#comment-279 ristuccia Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:28:27 +0000 http://entireworldofr.wordpress.com/2007/03/27/got-a-question-about-vocalic-r-articulation-disorders-ask-mrs-r/#comment-279 Caroline, We don’t maintain a listing of SLPs, but the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA) does maintain a directory. It can be found at http://www.asha.org/findpro/. You’ll have to contact the SLPs in your area and ask him or her what their expertise is to find exactly what you need. Good luck, Christine Caroline,

We don’t maintain a listing of SLPs, but the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA) does maintain a directory. It can be found at http://www.asha.org/findpro/. You’ll have to contact the SLPs in your area and ask him or her what their expertise is to find exactly what you need.

Good luck,

Christine

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