SPTH1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cluster Reduction, Whole Language

• School: University of Newcastle
• Department: Speech Pathology
• Course: SPTH1002
• Professor: Jo Walters

Document Summary

Using picture cards with actions associating with the picture. Use of repetition with the name of character/target sounds aimed for. Similar to an articulation approach, to get more sounds in their sound inventory. Uses motor cues, gesture cues to help the child with the production. Clinician uses focused stimulation techniques to emphasize 3rd person singular forms in craft activity with pre-schoolers. Clinician repeats and recast the children"s production of utterances with the target morphemes but does not explicitly require the children to produce the forms. Targeting of speech sounds indirectly by targeting things like tense and agreement (morphological targets) Also, targets phonology indirectly such as final cluster reduction (such as wants and needs). Indirectly targeting this process gets the child to use that morphological structure (3rd person present tense -s) forces them to use the cluster in final position. Pre-schoolers in elicited production activity with the facilitated strategy being forced choice.