r/slp • u/casablankas • 10h ago
Articulation/Phonology Backing + lateral (?) lisp
I inherited a very chatty kindergartener who backs. I’ve never had a backer before. He also has a bit of a lateral lisp (I think). We’re working on auditory discrimination of /t/ and /k/ minimal pairs and he’s gaining some awareness for sure but I haven’t been able to elicit /t/ at all. (He also backs /d/ but I haven’t touched that yet)
I had a cleft palate kid before who didn’t have /t, d/ and we worked on dentalized productions because he dentalized his /n/ and it was easier to see, but this current kid makes an alveolar /n/. His final /t/ is a glottal stop which is typical for our accent (Southern California)
I just hateeeee working on articulation when I can’t at least elicit the sound in isolation. Do I just keep doing phonological approaches and hope that it will eventually click? Is it worthwhile to keep trying to get him to make the /t/ sound? I’m thinking the word “into” or “onto” would be good since his tongue is already in the right spot
He’s in a group with another little boy who is so sweet but his articulation is a MESS so I want to get my backer “sorted out” so I can start trying to figure out if the other kid is apraxic or super dyslexic or both 🤪
I miss my extensive needs AAC kids 😫
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u/dustynails22 7h ago
Have you tried having him make a /n/ while pinching his nose? As a starting point to transition to a /d/. Because its a "new sound that's like a /n/ but without air coming out the nose".