“How can a speech pathologist help my son?”
My son has always had speech problems, and right now, he can't pronounce his r's. How will a speech pathologist help him with his pronunciations?
17 Answers
Speech therapy can help with appropriate tongue placement to produce an /r/ and also identify if there are structural differences that may be holding your son back from producing a correct /r/. Seek out a speech language pathologist that has training in orofacial myofunctional therapy.
The good news is SLP's work on articulation specifically with /r/ frequently! I would call a local SLP to seek an evaluation and have your son get started with treatment.
A speech pathologist is a specialist in articulation, the motor movement of the mouth to produce sounds, syllables, words, etc.). She understands the anatomy and physiology of speech production and can train your son how to produce these sounds. Best wishes!
Depending on the age of your child and his motivation to improve his speech, an SLP can help him learn the movements necessary to produce the /r/ sound correctly. R is one of the most difficult sounds to learn because there are two specific ways to produce the sound, it is produced in the back of the mouth so it is difficult to see, and its production is very significantly affected by the sounds that occur around it. The SLP may be able to identify certain contexts where production is easier and can begin to build from there.
How many years have you son?
There are methods, including oral motor exercises to achieve correct tongue placement and then practicing /r/ in words and sentences.
They will figure out the placement of his particular errors and teach him the correct placement. Then work through a series of steps to eventually produce/r/ in conversation. The earlier the better for therapy.
Kimberly Baradei
Speech-Language Pathologist
Hi! Thanks for reaching out. A Speech Pathologist will complete an evaluation to determine the cause of the difficulty and create a plan to remedy it. Depending on the cause, there could be a couple of ways to treat. Most include oral motor exercises and articulation practice. Reach out to a local SLP to get started! Kim
Working with a Speech Pathologist can help with identifying the cause of the /r/ distortion. Many times tongue positioning and oral strength play a role in remediating the /r/ sound. /r/, /s/ and /l/ tend to be some of the hardest sounds to remediate and can require long term therapy. The speech pathologist can provide exercises, demonstrate and model correct production of sounds, so that they can be carried over at the word, phrase and sentence level.
By helping him with specific exercises using the letter r, tongue relaxing and placement techniques and rate of speech exercises
Start now. If you wait too long /r/ is difficult to correct. There are many techniques.
Yes, make sure he receives an articulation evaluation with a speech pathologist.
Articulation therapy
Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) <http://www.asha.org/Students/Speech-Language-Pathologists/#careers> work to prevent, assess, diagnose, and treat speech, language, social
communication, cognitive-communication, and swallowing disorders in children and adults (ASHA). Your son would have to be evaluated and/or assessed by a speech-language pathologist to determine how he would be helped.
communication, cognitive-communication, and swallowing disorders in children and adults (ASHA). Your son would have to be evaluated and/or assessed by a speech-language pathologist to determine how he would be helped.
Hello,
"R" is difficult for most children. A speech therapist can help him if the sound should have been obtained by his age.
"R" is difficult for most children. A speech therapist can help him if the sound should have been obtained by his age.
A speech therapist will complete articulation therapy in order to help your son accurately produce the /r/ sound by helping him with the correct tongue and mouth posture, discriminate between a correct and incorrect /r/, and to then accurately produce the /r/ sound at the word, phrase, and conversational level.
Terlenda Lassiter
Speech-Language Pathologist
/R is a very difficult sound. It can come anywhere in development from age 3 to age 6.5. Speech pathologists are specially trained in exercises and play activity to maximize a child, teen, or even adult's production of target sounds, including /r/.
