Cycles for Phonology
If you have been on ANY type of social media in the past 10 years you may be wondering why people ask if others are using Cycles. The reason for this is because Cycles is absolutely AMAZING! If you are not familiar with Cycles, read on and prepare to be amazed!
Cycles is different from Traditional Articulation because you target patterns (i.e., processes) at the WORD level versus individual sounds at the word, phrase, and sentence level. Think about that for a second. Imagine being able to correct speech errors WITHOUT targeting phrases, sentences, conversation, and generalization. How much time would it save you to ONLY target words, yet see CARRYOVER to conversational speech?
That is exactly what happens when you implement Cycles for Phonology. No more phrase and sentence level drill. No more generalization activities that may not work. Implementing Cycles will allow you to treat your phonological children in HALF the time of traditional articulation!
Do we have your attention now?
Now we will tell you, that it gets even better. Cycles is structured and streamlined (which we love because not much is in this field) which means you are NOT going to target EVERY sound the child has in error, but instead target specific sounds under each primary pattern. In other words, you are only going to target a small number of the sounds that may be in error. For example, you will target s-blends to correct strident sounds. What are strident sounds? All the noisy sounds in our speech like singleton /s, z, f, v/, and the “sh”, “ch”, “dz”, and “zh” know as palatal sounds. Can you wrap your head around NOT having to target all of those sounds, targeting ONLY s-blends, AND seeing carryover to CONVERSATION of all of the sounds above? It is hard to believe until you see it happen over and over again.
If you struggle with remediating phonological delays, this seminar is for you! The instructor will take participants through an overview of delivery and scoring of the Hodson Assessment of Phonological Processes-3 (HAPP-3) and then you will use that to design a Cycle in breakout groups! This is the best way to learn how to use this approach because designing a Cycle is the hardest part, but not after this seminar. You will use the Cycles Guidelines and Organizational Chart to assist you in this process as it is THE ROADMAP to designing and implementing Cycles as early as tomorrow!
Let's Hear It for R!
Do you HATE /r/? Wouldn’t it be great if you could LOVE it or at least like it?
Make this the year you MASTER /r/ therapy by learning to use Let’s Hear It For R!
This program is a structured, step-by-step approach for correcting the most difficult sound SLPs treat.
In this seminar, participants will learn how to establish initial /r/ and use it together with coarticulation and feedback to develop final and medial /r/.
The concept of approximations will be introduced and discrimination skills will be further developed using audio clips of students producing /r/ with and without coarticulation.
To aid in participant understanding, six videos will demonstrate the techniques and additional audio files will highlight the changes that can occur simply by using coarticulation.
Content Disclosure: This course focuses on Cycles for Phonology and Let's Hear It For R! and other or similar programs will not be discussed.
