SLPs: Practical Therapy Techniques for Persistent and Resistant Speech Sound Errors (Grades PK-12) Presented by Margo Kinzer Courter, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-CL Speech-Language Pathologist, Author and National Presenter

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Practical Ideas and Strategies

As a SLP, are you challenged by students who have unmistakable and persistent speech sound errors well into the later elementary years and beyond? While these children may have only one or two sounds in error, these few errors are anything but "simple and easy" to remediate. Distorted /s/ and /z/ sounds, particularly lateral distortions, are frustratingly resistant to therapy, as are distorted /r/ sounds. In this seminar, outstanding speech language pathologist and national presenter Margo Kinzer Courter shares a variety of highly effective strategies to help reduce frustration and increase success in therapy with your most challenging speech sound cases, in part by reducing the number of "challenging cases" as early and rapidly as possible.

Learn how to facilitate correct sound production through use of meaning and concurrent task sequencing across multiple levels of difficulty. Discover free and/or inexpensive electronic tools that can accelerate your students' progress by teaching them to independently monitor their sound production. Receive a wealth of information and techniques to support student success and enhance the effectiveness of therapy, even for /r/ distortions and other challenging speech sound errors. Learn how to decrease your caseload by moving children to correct conversational speech sound production quickly, making your students feel more successful simply because they are!

You'll leave with an array of new ideas to strengthen your speech sound therapy program.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

1. Maximize Your Students' Productivity While Minimizing Their Time in Treatment for Persistent Articulation Errors
   Utilize proven methods to facilitate a correct /r/, /l/, /s/, /z/, /f/, /v/, and /sh/ and R and L-controlled vowels at all levels of difficulty
2. Strategically Apply Your Phonetic Knowledge to Elicit Correct Sound Production
   Provide effective cognitive-linguistic links to enable your students to use their current understanding and use of speech sounds to produce new, correct speech sounds
3. Promote Rapid Speech Sound Mastery Among Your Students
   Developmental norms for acquisition of speech sounds have changed with recent research … Find out what this means for your practice, and use this information to accelerate your students' progress
4. Manage Stubborn Articulation Cases More Effectively
   Learn proven methods to remediate your most challenging cases involving /r/, frontal lisp or lateral lisp … Reduce therapy time, increase students' rate of progress, decrease out-of-class time and feel more in control of your schedule
5. Use Multiple Levels of Difficulty Throughout the Therapy Process to Enhance Student Acquisition and Carryover of Target Sounds
   Ensure success by incorporating varying levels of difficulty to keep students engaged, challenged and successful from the start
6. Apply Carefully Selected Implementation Models to Diminish Articulation Errors Before They Become "Articulation Problems"
   Adapt implementation practices to reduce the overall duration of therapy, while providing greater exposure to speech sound production early in the process … Learn how strategic, timely intervention can prevent speech sound errors from becoming "persistent and resistant"
7. Plan for Dismissal From R (or Any Other Sound) Therapy From the Very First Day
   Utilize intervention techniques, electronic tools, and targeted linguistic elicitation strategies to rapidly move your student from /w/ or /oo/ to /r/ in practice, in sentences, and in conversation
8. Teach Your Students to More Accurately Evaluate Their Own Sound Production
   Learn about tools available at little or no cost that provide visual feedback, so your students can quickly learn to self-monitor accurately, resulting in more rapid carry-over of sounds to conversation … Leverage the child's speech sound knowledge to provide internal models of correct production to promote self-monitoring
9. Use the Power of Communication and Word Meanings to Spark Your Students' Desire to Excel
   Every child is motivated to communicate … Capitalize on this motivation to enhance your students' production and use of target sounds using meaning to inspire engagement at every step of the therapy process
10. Receive a Detailed Articulation Therapy Digital Resource Handbook
    You will receive an extensive Articulation Therapy digital resource handbook, filled with therapy tools and materials, strategies, and scores of elicitation techniques for /r/, /l/, /s/, /z/, /f/, /v/, /sh/, and /ch/ and R and L-controlled vowels … Gain new word lists, sentence elicitation and practice ideas, and materials that use meaning to reinforce correct production, plus much more

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Here's what you'll learn:

• Reduce the amount of time children are in therapy … In most cases, long-term articulation therapy (more than 1-2 school years) can become a thing of the past if the right interventions are in place from the beginning
• Use meaning to motivate change for the /r/ and /l/ sounds … Learn when, how, and why to challenge your students to modify their production of R and L to communicate clearly and precisely
• Determine what students are doing and not doing when they produce a distorted /r/ and techniques to personalize the shaping of their production into a correct /r/
• How to build oral awareness to generate consistent placement for /r/ as well as /s/, /z/, /sh/, and /ch/
• Learn how to solidify and generalize the new, correct /r/ and other target sounds … Use therapy routines that promote generalization from the start
• Help students analyze their own /s/ production using visual tools and learn to evaluate /s/ and /z/ correctly at all levels of difficulty (isolation, words, sentences, conversation)
• Discover how to intervene early, directly and indirectly to reduce the number of children who have speech sound errors that require extensive therapy … Discover what a multi-tiered system of support looks like for a successful speech sound intervention
• Master screening and periodic intervention techniques that can save hours of therapy over the long haul
• "Go for the Gold" in scheduling and implementation practices … It is possible to achieve optimal response conditions (at least 100 correct per student, per session) in the limited time available during the school day! … Here's how!
• Phonological and phonemic awareness activities to boost speech sound accuracy and perception
• Step-by-step approaches for acquisition, maintenance, and generalization for quicker generalization of persistent speech sound errors
• Innovative and systematic visual, tactile, and prosodic cues to help students quickly acquire correct speech production, moving from practice to maintenance in less sessions
• Components of place and manner … ways to impact correct production and address motor planning for persistent speech sound disorders based on how and where sounds are made

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

Like you, I have many stories of students with speech sound errors which were difficult to remediate. Some were in or approaching middle school with these persistent speech sound errors. Others were already in high school. I would try every strategy and trick I knew to get consistent placement, but this did not necessarily lead to correct production once the sound was placed in a syllable, multisyllabic word, or a sentence.

Through research, some trial and error (and tolerant students), I developed approaches and strategies that finally work for practice, maintenance, and generalization! So many components need to be considered, including developmental norms, dynamic assessment, motor planning, motor performance, motor learning syllable shapes, perception, cues, place and manner of articulation, frequency of occurrence, blocked vs. random practice, and many more dynamics. And all these must come together in the quickest and most consistent manner to finally remediate those persistent sound errors.

So, how can we bring all these pieces together in the best ways? Join me! We'll explore the best practical approaches and strategies to bring all these components together in your therapy with students in a step-by-step explicit, sequential, and systematic way. These approaches will benefit ALL students and when implemented with the youngest of students, will help remediate ALL speech sound disorders, thus, reducing those late elementary, middle school, and high school speech sound errors. Let's get rid of those persistent sound disorders by utilizing proven methods for practice, maintenance, and generalization.

Join me for a day full of sharing information with colleagues from around the country and leave with many new tools and materials that you can use right away!

Sincerely,
Margo Kinzer Courter, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-CL

P.S. You will receive my digital resource handbook, which is packed with step-by-step strategies and approaches, and special access to my website with many more practical ideas and therapy tools!

Who Should Attend

Speech-Language Pathologists Serving Students in Grades PreK-12

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Articulation Therapy Digital Resource Handbook
You will receive an extensive digital resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. Included in the handbook are:

• Multisensory cues to support practice and maintenance of production
• Explicit, systematic, and sequential step-by-step approach to finally remediate those persistent sound errors
• A dynamic assessment for the multitude of /r/s
• Updated norms for sound mastery
• Worksheet of syllable shapes for systematic targets

For in-person seminars, registrants will also receive a printed copy of the resource handbook as long as their registration is received in the BER office at least 15 calendar days before the event.

Share Ideas
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to meet and share articulation therapy ideas with other speech-language pathologists.

Consultation Available
Margo Kinzer Courter will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own articulation therapy program.

ASHA - CEUs

ASHA-Required Disclosure Statement for Margo Kinzer Courter:
Presenter for the Institute for Educational Development and receives honorarium compensation.
Owner of MK Courter Communications, LLC and receives consulting and speaking fees.
Author of See It & Say It Visual Phonics (program and materials) and receives royalty payments.

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