You can find these small toys at the dollar store. Fill it with rice or noodles and place small toys inside of it that correspond to the letter you are working towards. You can even use a cardboard box for this activity if you don’t have a plastic bin at home. One of my favorite activities I do with any articulation sound is a sensory bin. The “s” sound is a great sound to work on because it’s so accessible in the English language. When the bubble pops, the child can stop saying the sound. You can also do something reinforcing while they say the sound, like blowing one bubble at a time. Have them hold the sound as they trace their finger all the way down Sammy the Snake’s body. For example, have your child say “sa, sa, sa” as they trace the body of the snake. You can add vowel sounds such as, /a,e,i,o,u/. Once the child is stimulable for the /s/ sound, have them use it continually for many seconds at a time. You’ll be able to determine if your child has gained progress and if you can move on to the syllable level of production. This is great to use right now while access to speech pathologists is restricted due to the pandemic. Where to find some words? You will find hundreds more on Word Vault Essential where you can take data and play the words aloud. When your child hears the sound produced correctly, they can hold up the snake! This is a great activity because it will teach your child discrimination skills for when they are producing the sound independently. You can also read a list of words that have the letter “s” in it.
In order to produce any sound in conversation, they have to be able to say it in isolation, or by itself. If you don’t like this picture, you can easily google “plain snakes” and a multitude of pictures will come up that you can use.Īs your child traces the snake’s body, give them the /s/ sound to produce. It’s a very simple picture that isn’t distracting for young children. When working on this sound, I print out a picture of Sammy the Snake. To produce a clear /s/ sound the tongue is raised high in the mouth to almost touching the alveolar ridge, the roof of the mouth. If your child is having a difficult time reaching this position, you can stick some peanut butter or marshmallow behind their teeth so that your child can raise their tongue to hit the spot where the sound is created! Because the tongue constricts the space through which the breath stream travels, the /s/ sound should have a faint hissing quality to it. This action by the tongue should create a groove in the center of the tongue through which the air flows. To produce a clear /s/ sound, the tongue is raised high in the mouth to almost touching the alveolar ridge, the roof of the mouth. One typical articulation error kids make is the /s/ sound. An articulation disorder or speech sound disorder is when a child has problems making speech sounds properly.
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