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Remedies to Produce /r/ Sound

<br>Children at their growing age might have different speaking difficulties and one of the most common among them is rhotacism, which is the inability to produce the /r/ sound. Well, one of the top reasons would be the trouble in explaining the production of /r/ sound clearly. <br>

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Remedies to Produce /r/ Sound

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  1. REMEDIES TO PRODUCE /R/ SOUND

  2. INTRODUCTION Children at their growing age might have different speaking difficulties and one of the most common among them is rhotacism, which is the inability to produce the /r/ sound. Well one of the top reasons would be the trouble in explaining the production of /r/ sound clearly. Unlike most of the other speech sounds in English, one cannot see or feel the position of the tongue while producing /r/, it varies tremendously from person to person making it more tough to understand. Thus, most children won’t produce the sound or replace it with some other.

  3. Evaluation of the child: The speech sound /r/ is pronounced differently in many occasions depending on the sound it is combined with. Best speech therapists can preferably make a change in the pronunciation of your child with various therapeutic methods such as: From the lot of variations your child might be able to speak some and not the others. Identify the variations they cannot produce after a thorough evaluation of repeating consonant blends, vocalic blends or the individual /r/ sound etc. After the right identification the process becomes easier.

  4. Start off right and end follows: Connect /r/ to a vowel sound: During the evaluation, therapists get an idea of the sound variations the child can produce. Vowels considered to be the easiest to produce. sounds are generally Now therapists create a list of the words that includes these /r/ sounds and makes the child repeat it at the start of each session as a warm-up activity. Thus, always try to combine the /r/ sound to a vowel sound for better understanding and production of the sound. By that the child can notice the position of their jaw, tongue pronouncing the sound and distinguish it with the incorrect way and make the necessary changes. and mouth while Start with a long or short vowel, hold it still and then add the /r/ sound to the end, and notice how the child moves from one into the other.

  5. Make use of Visual Cues: One of the effective ways of learning is demonstration with the help of visual aids. In cases of /r/ sound, the therapist has to explain the way in which the tongue moves when the sound is being produced. They can use their arms to explain the moving like pulling it up and in towards the body like the tongue does.

  6. Make it fun: Pronouncing the same sound for some time could be extremely tiresome, so there should be enough fun mixed into the therapy sessions. Like the inclusion of the animal sounds like cat purring “purrr” or tiger growling “grrrr” etc. It is sure to lighten up the mood.

  7. CONCLUSION With all the above mentioned techniques best speech therapy institutes in Sharjah and many other places are successfully able to help your child with the rather difficult /r/ sound that comes in different forms. Constant practice at sessions and at home can help the child in attaining the results sooner.

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