Vowels in Speech therapy
Thursday, August 26, 2010


For the children who are learning to speak, it is difficult for them to pronounce the vowels and consonants combination in initial stages. It is advisable to start with lax or open vowel sounds than the stressed vowels. Lax vowels mean which are open and have short sound like /a/ than /o/.

Stressed vowels are difficult because they need more planning, coordination and lingual strength. Dipthongs are further difficult as they require 2 oro motor movements than one, thus requiring further motor planning.

In order to help children to pronounce vowels more accurately some visual or tactile (physical) cues should be provided.



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Babbling...
Thursday, August 19, 2010

Children with apraxia or children with Autism, mostly have low oral tone and poor oral coordination. It is hard for these children to plan, coordinate and execute oral movements, resulting in poor verbal skills. Imitation and verbalization both are difficult for them.

As normal speech development, a child at the age of 5-6 month starts babbling. Babbling helps the child to practice oro motor function and develop the ability to change what he hears and understands the motor act of verbalization. Babbling helps in syllabic understanding and production hence, it facilitates the normal speech and language production. Babbling at earlier stages has vowel both short and long vowel but, long vowels predominate. After this, babbling changes to reduplicated babbling - sequence of identical, repetitive sequences of CV syllables (e.g /ma/ma/, /da/da/). Later it changes to CV, V, VC, VCV format.

Initial forms of vowels are /a/, /aa/, /oo/ and then /i/, /e/ and then dipthongs (combinations of 2 different vowels like ie/, /io/)

Initial course of speech therapy should follow normal course of development. Babbling should be a part of curriculum and used as methodology during speech therapy. However, teaching to speak is not easy task. The child who does not speak will take longer time to learn to speak than child who can speak few words.

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Easy Flashcards
Friday, August 13, 2010


Recently i started designing flashcards and got an easy idea. Cut the cardboard of the desired size and put stickers. These stickers are easily available in markets and durable. They are mess free than the cut and paste books. They are attracting because of their colors.


Flashcards designs depends on various categories. They could be alphabets, numbers, vegetables and animals etc.

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Friendship for children with Autism
Thursday, August 5, 2010

Friendship plays an important part in everyone’s life. It is not mere a relationship. It teaches many social skills as well. Friendship becomes relatively more important in children with Autism. As a common feature these children are poor in social and communicative skills so most of time they do not have friends or can’t maintain a friendship. Friendship teaches us to think about the world in a “relative” and not absolute manner.

Most of the parents of the children with Autism desperately search for friends for their children. They feel that the things would have been better if their children could have friends. But, there are no shortcuts or different methods of having and keeping friends. What matter are the social skills or socialization.

There are 2 types of skills for teaching socialization.

  1. Instrumental skills
  2. Relationship skills

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