This kit has the essentials of phonological and articulation therapy—fifty full-color picture scenes to elicit target words at four difficulty levels and a manual of treatment approaches, reference guides, and documentation tools. Whether your students have low intelligibility scores or a few lingering speech sound errors, the LinguiSystems Articulation Test LAT Therapy Kit has the materials you need. esigned for individuals and groups, the kit includes:
50 Picture Scenes—Each large-size, full-color picture scene targets a phonological process or articulation errors. They are organized in these categories (five scenes in each category):
maximal oppositions
minimal pairs
cluster reduction
word final devoicing
final consonant deletion
velar fronting
stopping
gliding
vocalic /r/
highly frequent distortions (s, r, l, ch, sh)
The back of each picture scene has a hierachy of stimulus cues:
auditory discrimination—point to each target word in the scene
word level speech production—complete a sentence or answer a wh- question at the word level
sentence level speech production—produce a sentence with or without a model
conversation level—tell a story about the picture
Therapy Manual—The 40-page manual has essential information and nuts-and-bolts reference materials to help you efficiently develop therapy plans and educate professionals and parents.
overview of approaches to articulation therapy such as multiple-phonemes, paired-stimuli, and more
overview of approaches to phonological therapy including distinctive feature, cycles, minimal contrast, maximal contrast, multiple oppositions, and more
guidelines for normal phoneme development
intelligibility guidelines
summary of treatment principles for childhood apraxia of speech
red flags to differentiate a speech disorder from a speech delay