Approaches used with Articulation Therapy and Remediation of Specific Cleft Type Characteristics

Consonant recognition and discrimination activities have been described in Chapter 3.

Following on from these discrimination activities, children learn to sort and produce

words according to phonemic contrasts; for example, words beginning with /t/ versus /k/, or words ending in /tS/, /S/, /f/ or /s/. Minimal pairs may be used to help children convey different meaning, as in homophony confrontation (Grunwell & Dive, 1988).