ABSTRACT

In order to be able to work on different problematic sounds with children it is necessary for the adult to be able to produce the target sound correctly. The adult also needs to be able to copy any child's incorrect representation of the sound by observing closely how the child produces that sound. The games for working on S, SH and R sounds are grouped into two parts: 'Games for auditory discrimination' and 'Games for practising the target sound'. The aim is for the children to be able to tell the difference between the target sound and the wrong sound, using the auditory discrimination games. In all of the games which follow, the child-adult roles can be swapped once a child is able to produce the target sound himself so that sometimes it is not the child but the adult who discriminates between wrongly and correctly articulated sounds.