Speech Therapy -> Intelligibility -> Pace and Breathing
Pace and Breathing
The rate of speech (fast vs. slow) and pausing between words in a phrase/sentence that is needed to increase intelligibility.
Reference links
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Speech Intelligibility: How Clear is Your Child’s Speech? 1
Author: Andalusia Speech Therapy - Have you ever found it difficult to understand your child’s speech?A Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) can help you understand if your child’s speech intelligibility is at an appropriate level for their age.
www.andalusiaspeech.com
Activity List(s)
Goal Bank
- Jesse will produce 4-word utterances during play based activities with 90% intelligibility across 3 consecutive sessions when provided fading carrier phonemes, verbal models, and visual pacing cues as measured by clinician data and observation to increase overall speech intelligibility. 2
Resources
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Monsters Love Candy! Apraxia Resource CV, VC, CVC Words
Sara Lowczyk
A monster activity including different CV, VC, CVC words to practice different syllable shapes.
Includes activity list4
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Kiki Celebrates Spring
Bailey Morgan, M.A., CCC-SLP
Kiki Celebrates Spring. Short story with spring vocabulary, can be used by itself or with one of the Spring resources (i.e. making strawberry shortcake activity, bee pattern tracing...)
Includes activity list5
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Kiki's Spring Language Adventure: Describe It (Color Edition)
Gabriella Cousino, M.S., CF-SLP
"Kiki's Spring Language Adventure: Describe It (Color Edition)" is a resource created to target use of adjectives, color names, modifiers, and overall use of descriptive language. In this resource,...
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Kiki and Robo Make Snow Story
Bailey Morgan, M.A., CCC-SLP
Reading Resource. Language Resource. A story about Kiki and Robo making snow. Kiki and Robo want to play outside in the snow, but then realize the snow is too icy and hard. This story pairs with th...
Includes activity list5
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Story Dice For Language Building and Writing Prompts, Wh- Question Dice
Jessica Lenden-Holt
Story dice are a fun way to elicit speech, language and writing samples and to target goals in therapy or in centers! Dice include engaging images for writing prompts and conversational starters. T...
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