Independent Practice
This is a private page and only you have the link. No-one should be able to find it from google or my website. I will post you practice here each week so you have permanent access to it and can build up a library of practice.
Maintenance
As we progress with your speech therapy, I want to introduce some practice routines that you can use on a daily basis for the rest of your life. The first one here is about preparing your whole body to speak. This involves supporting your body and allowing yourself to relax so that you can breathe deeply and use the breath to sustain phonation (making voice) and keep voice going for longer stretches of speech (more than10 syllables per phrase) and more consecutive phrases (at the moment you manage about 3 phrases before fatigue sets in.
I hope that with support you will be able to adopt these simple techniques to keep your body ready for speech for the future.
I hope that with support you will be able to adopt these simple techniques to keep your body ready for speech for the future.
Current practice
The most recent practice is at the top of this page but please make use of earlier practice to continue to build confidence and skills
8th October 2024
Saying longer phrases clearly, fluently and smoothly |
Today we worked to re-establish your physical readiness for speech. Please try to complete the guided practice above once a day to help yourself to keep your breathing, phonation and articulation working in a relaxed manner.
Once you have completed the guided practice work on:
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Sijo poetrySijo poetry has 3 x 14 - syllable sentences. Work on each line first then gradually work up to performing each poem on 3 consecutive breaths. Here are a few examples of some Sijo poetry to practice www.sejongculturalsociety.org/writing/current/resources/sijo_samples.php
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Ready for bonfire night!We also talked about preparing the gunpowder poem ready for our next session on 5th November. You can see the full poem here https://wordsforlife.org.uk/activities/remember-remember-the-5th-of-november/
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All videos below remain relevant and you can return to any of them at any time. The most current practice will be at the top of the page.
This week I am also attaching some links to a website called 'seeing speech' where you can see a speech therapist making the sounds you are working on. This can be helpful for visualising the position of contact and movement inside your mouth, which can otherwise be very difficult to see.
This week I am also attaching some links to a website called 'seeing speech' where you can see a speech therapist making the sounds you are working on. This can be helpful for visualising the position of contact and movement inside your mouth, which can otherwise be very difficult to see.
This video contains some new ideas for practice.