Speech Production & Quality
Speech Production and Quality programs increase a learner’s intelligibility. These programs address the form of the sounds as well as attributes of the sounds themselves.
Programs
Practical exemplars to demonstrate in phases
Articles
Additional information
on skills
Materials
Printable ABA tools to be used in lessons
Program Videos
Oral Motor Imitation: Blowing Bubbles
This program is for children who have articulation difficulties and is designed to strengthen specific parts of sound production.
Oral Motor Imitation 2
This program teaches students to make the mouth movements to pronounce a sound s with the assistance of some props.
Verbal Imitation – A sound
This program teaches students to copy “A” sound. The goal is to increase student’s ability to imitate sounds that he hears and increase vocalizations.
Verbal Imitation – M sound
This program teaches students to copy “M” sound. The goal is to increase student’s ability to imitate sounds that he hears and increase vocalizations.
Verbal Imitation with Discrimination
This program teaches students to discriminate between a few sounds and be able to produce the sounds that they are asked to make. The goal is to increase student’s listening, discrimination and verbal imitation skills.
Object manipulation with sound
This program teaches a student to use some objects while making sounds. The goal is to enhance the students play skills.
Saying sounds associated with pictures
This program teaches students to say a sound when presented with a corresponding picture.
Verbal Imitation (Dot Program)
This program teaches students to copy sounds and words with the assistance of dot prompts.
Fun Ways to Practice Verbal Imitation
This program teaches students to imitate many words in a sentence to facilitate learning more complex sentence structures and language use.
Articulation: Loud & Soft
This program teaches students about how they use their voice at different volume levels.
