ABSTRACT
When it comes to therapy techniques or approaches for children with speech sound difficulties, there are many to choose from. This chapter discusses a number of the therapy techniques commonly used by clinicians, including core vocabulary therapy, dynamic temporal and tactile cueing, phoneme awareness therapy, psycholinguistic speech processing model, traditional articulation approach, auditory input therapies and cycles therapy. Metaphonetic skills are worked on to improve a child’s ‘cognitive awareness’ of the properties of the sound system, while metalinguistic tasks are used to develop more successful use of repair strategies which, in the long term, enables a child to ‘own’ their speech capabilities. Minimal pairs are the perfect way to give a child a physical consequence for an inaccurate pronunciation of a word. They can be used in therapy to help children learn that swapping one sound can change the meaning of a word.
