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Focus on Speech Sound Disorders by Judith Maginnis Kuster ears ago when I was assigned my first “artic” case, I spent hours cutting pictures of /s/ words from magazines and My Little Golden Book Dictionary (now available in GoAntiques for $15!) and drawing crude pictures of sailboats, sun, soap, seven, and such. Now there are many commercial products focusing on speech-sound disorders, but the Internet also has wonderful free resources. Y Clinical Resources The richest site for speech-sound disorders is Caroline Bowen’s “SLP Start Page” (www.speechlanguage-therapy.com/slp-eureka.htm). You can spend hours exploring, reading, downloading, and copying materials. Her “Freebies” page (www.speechlanguage-therapy.com/freebies.htm) includes these treasures: • Consumer slide shows (www.speech-languagetherapy.com/shows.html)—PowerPoint programs that inform families, teachers, and others about children with speech-sound disorders. • Phonology and articulation resources (www. speech-language-therapy.com/txresources. html)—worksheets, handouts, pictures, and word lists. • Therapy facts and tricks (www.speech-languagetherapy.com/tx-facts-and-tricks.html)—includes “evidence-based strategies to enhance outcomes” and information on “Target Selection.” • Vowel Contrasts for Phonological Therapy (www. speech-language-therapy.com/txvowelcontrasts. html)—vowel minimal pair pictures and word lists. • The Butterfly Procedure (www.speech-languagetherapy.com/fsd-butterfly-procedure.htm) for lateral and palatal /s/ and /z/. • Minimal Pairs and Listening word lists (www. speech-language-therapy.com/wordlists.html). • Bowen also hosts a 6,200-member Yahoo forum, Phonological Therapy (PHONO-TX), for professional discussion of speech development and the assessment and management of speech-sound disorders. This resource includes valuable materials in the connected “files” and “links.” To join, access http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/ phonologicaltherapy/join. Because the forum exceeded space limits, Bowen created Speechfiles, an extensive collection of handouts, worksheets, and articles. To access, join http://health.groups. yahoo.com/group/speechfiles/join. • Peter Flipsen (www.isu.edu/~flippete/Clinical_ Resources.html) provides valuable materials including a decision tree to separate articulation problems from phonological problems; a speech perception test; and listening lists for auditory bombardment. articulation and phonology games by Lonn Swanson (www.quia.com/pages/speechersclass.html); and an all-pictures articulation, language, and phonemic awareness site by Mrs. Ramsay (www.quia.com/ pages/allpicturesfun.html). Treatment Activity Ideas • The Targets and Activities Project (TAP) allows clinicians to post activity sheets for use by clinicians or speech-language pathology assistants under the direction of certified SLPs. Several focus on phonology and articulation (www.commtap.org/tap/nav/ artic.html). • “Books, Stories, and Games That Reinforce Speech Sound Targets” (http://crokebeck.tripod.com/ articbks.htm/homepage.html). • This Works for Me from speakingofspeech.com has a bulletin board where clinicians post questions and ideas for articulation therapy (http://members4. boardhost.com/speakingofspeec). Materials • Special Education Technology of British Columbia (www.setbc.org/pictureset/resource. aspx?id=256) provides 25 pages of pictures of frequently misarticulated sounds (PDF or Boardmaker format). • Bossy R (www.wordway.us.com/BossyR.htm) has nearly 100 pages (in PDF files) of r-family sets (ar, ir, ore, ur). • Jennifer Mitchell’s ClipArtic (www.speechtx.com/ articulation.htm) has flash cards and quickpics minibooks for final deletions and all word positions of commonly misarticulated speech sounds, as well as articulation activities. • Search SpeechTeach for activities (www. speechteach.co.uk/p_general/downloads.htm). • Frieda Van Staden provides word lists and articulation games for l, r, s, and sh-ch-j (http://members. tripod.com/Freida_vanStaden/SLPresources. htm). Creating Materials • The Story-Making Machine targets l, r, s, sh, ch, or th with stories that are ready-made or created by you or your client (www.communicationconnects. com/stories.asp). • The Word List Generator includes an option for creating a printer-friendly version for 3”x5” index cards (www.wordlistgenerator.net). • Enter target words to create word flashcards on Senteacher (www.senteacher.org/Worksheet/10/ Literacy.xhtml). • Sound Sorting Pictures provides sets of pictures of speech sounds to copy and paste into cliniciancreated activities (www.rockingham.k12.va.us/ sound_sorting/sound_sorting_menu.htm). • Copy game boards from Cherry Carl’s “Board Games Grove” to use with flash cards created from the above materials (www.carlscorner.us.com/ Games.htm). School is open and intervention caseloads have been selected—clinicians may be too busy to create materials. Consider enlisting an aide, a parent, or a service-learning high school student to supplement your intervention materials with something new—and free! Interactive Treasures Some of these sites have appeared in previous columns, but they deserve mention in a column on articulation: • John Higgins (from the UK, so check pronunciation differences) created a table of vowels and diphthongs and a table of consonants that generate minimal pairs (http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/ wordscape/wordlist). For example, Higgins identifies 470 word pairs contrasting /i/ and /I/ and 232 contrasting /s/ and /z/. • The Sounds of English, German, and Spanish from the University of Iowa (www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/ phonetics) animates production of each sound in isolation and in all word positions. • At QUIA (www.quia.com/topics.html) you’ll find articulation games by Tracy Gefroh Boyd (www. quia.com/pages/havemorefun.html); phonological and phonemic awareness page by Pamela Bordas (www.quia.com/pages/pbordasphonemic.html); Judith Maginnis Kuster, MS, CCCSLP, is a professor in the Department of Speech, Hearing, and Rehabilitation Services at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Contact her at judith.kuster@ mnsu.edu. An archive of all of Kuster’s columns can be found at www.mnsu. edu/comdis/kuster4/leader.html. URLs change, however, and there is no guarantee that links from previous columns are still functional. 30 September 21, 2010 http://www.quia.com/pages/speechersclass.html http://www.quia.com/pages/allpicturesfun.html http://www.quia.com/pages/allpicturesfun.html http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/phonologicaltherapy/join http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/phonologicaltherapy/join http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/speechfiles/join http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/speechfiles/join http://www.commtap.org/tap/nav/artic.html http://www.commtap.org/tap/nav/artic.html http://www.isu.edu/~flippete/Clinical_Resources.html http://www.isu.edu/~flippete/Clinical_Resources.html http://www.speech-language-therapy.com/slp-eureka.htm http://crokebeck.tripod.com/articbks.htm/homepage.html http://www.speech-language-therapy.com/slp-eureka.htm http://crokebeck.tripod.com/articbks.htm/homepage.html http://www.speech-language-therapy.com/freebies.htm http://www.speakingofspeech.com http://www.speech-language-therapy.com/freebies.htm http://members4.boardhost.com/speakingofspeec http://members4.boardhost.com/speakingofspeec http://www.speech-language-therapy.com/shows.html http://www.speech-language-therapy.com/shows.html http://www.setbc.org/pictureset/resource.aspx?id=256 http://www.setbc.org/pictureset/resource.aspx?id=256 http://www.speech-language-therapy.com/txresources.html http://www.communicationconnects.com/stories.asp http://www.speech-language-therapy.com/txresources.html http://www.wordway.us.com/BossyR.htm http://www.speech-language-therapy.com/txresources.html http://www.communicationconnects.com/stories.asp http://www.speech-language-therapy.com/tx-facts-and-tricks.html http://www.speechtx.com/articulation.htm http://www.speech-language-therapy.com/tx-facts-and-tricks.html http://www.wordlistgenerator.net http://www.speechtx.com/articulation.htm http://www.senteacher.org/Worksheet/10/Literacy.xhtml http://www.senteacher.org/Worksheet/10/Literacy.xhtml http://www.speech-language-therapy.com/txvowelcontrasts.html http://www.speech-language-therapy.com/txvowelcontrasts.html http://speechteach.co.uk/p_general/downloads.htm http://www.speech-language-therapy.com/txvowelcontrasts.html http://speechteach.co.uk/p_general/downloads.htm http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/sound_sorting/sound_sorting_menu.htm http://www.speech-language-therapy.com/fsd-butterfly-procedure.htm http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/sound_sorting/sound_sorting_menu.htm http://www.speech-language-therapy.com/fsd-butterfly-procedure.htm http://www.tripod.com/Freida_vanStaden/SLPresources.htm http://www.tripod.com/Freida_vanStaden/SLPresources.htm http://www.speech-language-therapy.com/wordlists.html http://www.carlscorner.us.com/Games.htm http://www.speech-language-therapy.com/wordlists.html http://www.carlscorner.us.com/Games.htm http://www.speechpage.com http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/wordscape/wordlist http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/wordscape/wordlist http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster4/leader.html http://www.quia.com/topics.html http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster4/leader.html http://www.quia.com/pages/havemorefun.html http://www.quia.com/pages/havemorefun.html http://www.speechpage.com http://www.quia.com/pages/pbordasphonemic.html

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of The ASHA Leader - September 21, 2010

The ASHA Leader - September 21, 2010
Contents
Teens at Risk: "We're on the Edge of an Epidemic"
Bottom Line
Audiology
New Fluency, Cognition Diagnosis Codes
Schools 2010: Learning and Leadership in Las Vegas
RTI Progress-Monitoring Tools
Classroom Acoustics: What Possibly Could Be New?
Schools Practice: New Research and Online Resources
From the President
Schools Survey Caseload Data
Internet
Identification and Treatment of Landau-Kleffner Syndrome
Buyers Guide
Classifieds
First Person on the Last Page

The ASHA Leader - September 21, 2010