Re: intro- help needed for /k/ & /g/ sounds

June 6, 2004

Hi chie,

I would def go to a prompt specialist. Some of the things I did with those

sounds is have the child touch just under my throat when I did the /g/ so they

could feel the voiced sound. I also start with their mouth open doing ahhhh

first if they could not open their mouth then I would do kkkkkk or ggggggg with

them watching and ask them to do. These are really hard sounds because you

can't see them. I try to get the kids to feel them on me and I open my mouth as

wide as i can so they can try to see them. I also do a gulp sound something

silly, they usually like when I do it and try it at least. Patience with these

2 sounds, it'll come but with time.

chris

chiegoro2 <jamesgkelly@...> wrote:

Hi,

I just joined the group and would like to briefly introduce myself.

My son with autism has never been diagnosed apraxia, but his SLPs and

I believe he has a lot of tendencies. First, my son did not start

developing his speech until he was 5. However, I know that he taught

himself alphabet, numbers, and phonics when he was around 4. While he

was non-verbal during his pre-school age, he was spelling many words

with magnet letters. He benefited a lot from use of PECS and ABA/VB.

Although he did not need PECS for a long time, he is still a very

strong visual learner, as many autistic children are. Now he requests

things in 6~7 words and answer questions in 2~3 words. His

cognitive/receptive levels are fairly good and his expressive

language skills are very limited.

Now, he still has many articulation errors, the biggest problem has

been that he cannot create /k/ and /g/ sounds. He replaces these

sounds with vowels and /h/ sound. This is affecting his

intelligibility a lot (i.e. he means " cat " but it sounds like " at " or

" hat " ). He has worked with wonderful SLPs who have been trying so

many things, so far he is not responding to the effort. Now I am

looking into Kaufman and Prompt methods on this issue.

Has anyone on the list have the same issue? If so, what has been

helpful? I know each child responds differently, but I would like to

be informed as much as possible. So any input from you is appreciated.

Thank you,

Chie (VA)

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