Major focus area

Speech Therapy -> Articulation

Short description

Semantically potent word Approach is a multiphonemic approach in which the SLP teaches articulation through words that have inherent meaning to a patient's life experiences (Hillard & Goepfert, 1979).

Long description

Semantically potent word Approach is a multiphonemic approach in which the SLP teaches articulation through words that have inherent meaning to a patient's life experiences. Semantically Potent word Approach is a multiphonemic approach where training words are chosen because of their semantic potency for a given patient. All misarticulated phonemes in each word are taught. By teaching the whole word accuracy, the patient is enabled to use the word as a functional communicative unit.

Method: After a list of core training words are created you select 5 words to begin remediation and a pictorial representation is made for each then you proceed with the stages:
1. Imitative Word Training
2. Non-Imitative Word Training
3. Sentence Imitation
4. Re-tell Story

(Hillard & Goepfert, 1979)