Therapy Techniques

Question 1

Successive Approximation

Answer 1

“Sound Shaping”

• a facilitative technique that capitalizes on a sound that the client can already make to help him or her learn a new sound
• the sound used to facilitate the production of the target can either be a speech sound or another type of sound that the client can make without difficulty
• guides client through a series of graded steps

Question 2

Manual Guidance

Answer 2

• the clinician physically assists the client in the production of the target sound
  (ex: teaching /b/, the clinician may shape the client’s lips for appropriate seal using his or her fingers

Question 3

Coarticulatory Concepts

Answer 3

-refers to the influence that sounds have on one another when linked together to make words, phrases and sentences.