ABSTRACT
Some children naturally begin to change their speech patterns because they have incorporated new information about sounds in words through listening and discrimination activities. When children are able to modify their speech patterns, it is time to practise a range of words with target sounds in single words and sentences. A child with a phonological impairment does not have a primary difficulty with co-ordination, but they have had a lot more practice at saying words in their old ‘wrong’ way rather than the new ‘right’ way. They have similar issues to those faced by an adult who is trying to learn and incorporate a new sound into the words of a foreign language. Generalisation for child is the equivalent of looking in dictionary and practising words that all have the same target sound. Further ideas for generalisation and carryover activities to use with any error pattern in the daily curriculum are provided on the CD.
