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Vowels & Intelligibility (Online)
By Marshalla Speech
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In this seminar, Pam reveals how children can become significantly more intelligible when the focus of speech-language treatment shifts from the consonants to vowels in apraxia and dysarthria. This material is designed to help make decisions about vowel training in clients with very low intelligibility.
This material is designed to help make decisions about vowel training in clients with very low intelligibility; SLPs have to figure out for themselves what to do with clients such as these, and that means that we have to make up our own methods. Based on decades of clinical observations and experimentation, Pam reveals how children can become significantly more intelligible when the focus of speech-language treatment shifts from the consonants to vowels in apraxia and dysarthria.
- Download the handout (top of page) before beginning the course.
- This course is available for 0.10 ASHA CEUs and/or 1 state continuing education hour.
- Fill out the online CE Participation form after viewing this course to register for ASHA CEUs.
Course Outline
Slides 1-4: The Importance of Vowels
Slides 5-7: Why and How to Approach Vowels
Slides 8-10: First Level of Vowel Training – Basic Vowels
Slide 11: Multi-Sensory Training
Slides 12-15: Second Level of Vowel Training – About Diphthongs
Slides 16-17: Second Level of Vowel Training – Training Diphthongs
Slides 18-21: Third Level of Vowel Training – Short Vowels
Slides 22-26: R and L Distortions; High-Functioning Clients