R Made Simple: Methods That Address The Challenges Of Pronunciation, Spelling And Dialect

Course overview

Participants will learn the concept of the Up, Down, & Slide Alphabet. This method is easy to teach, fun to learn, and most importantly it reduces the number of contexts that need to be taught! Students learn to analyze words for the sound that precedes the R, and identify that sound as an Up sound, a Down sound, or a Slide sound - regardless of spelling. Each sound category has a corresponding tongue position that students learn and use to successfully execute the production of R. This approach, combined with sound discrimination training and motor planning instruction, will help students master 'R' pronunciation at the conversational level, plus address barriers related to spelling, pronunciation and dialect.