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Picture card game to practise discrimination of velar and alveolar sounds

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Target
  • Speech → Discrimination → Fronting
  • Speech → Discrimination → Velar vs. alveolar
Abstract
Practise discriminating between velar and alveolar sounds, using minimal pairs, to target fronting.
portrait Contributor Rhiannan Walton

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Directions

Select appropriate minimal pairs to work on, for example, cap / tap, coffee / toffee and key / tea. Find the corresponding picture cards, or use the resources available on this site. Check that the child is able to identify each picture.

Explain that you are going to be playing a listening game, and thinking about front sounds and back sounds. The therapist then names one of the pictures and the child has to select the correct picture.

If the child selects the wrong picture, the therapist can ask, for example, “is that the key? Point to the key.”

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