Happy Birthday to Dr. Suess!
This month’s vocabulary is:
Nouns: Verbs:
- Farmer - hide
- Police Officer - wave
- Mail Carrier - wipe
- Fireman
- Teacher
- mall
- giraffe
- night
- pencil
- overalls
Encouraging Speech Sounds Through Reading: Speech therapists commonly use a strategy with children with articulatory and phonological disorders called “auditory bombardment”. This technique reapeatedly exposes the child to the correct production of mispronounced sounds. This increases the child’s ability to hear incorrect sounds in his/her own speech. Reading sound-filled books to your child, especially when they are young, increases sound production and the opportunity to hear early developing sounds pronounced correctly. Early developing sounds for ages 3-4 are p, b, t, d, m, n, w, h, k, and g. Often children will naturally omit these sounds from the ends of words or in the middle of multi-syllabic words. This is a common pattern in articulatory development. Just provide a good speech model by over emphasizing the target sound correctly. I will begin posting books packed full of early developing sounds with my post each month. The book I’d like to highlight this month is Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst. It contains the following early developing sounds and their occurrence in the book: p- 25, b-29, m-22, k- 50, g-8, t-59, d-40
