How do you do the phonological cycle approach?
Cycles sessions usually take an hour and consist of 7 steps:
- Review words from the last session.
- Auditory bombardment (1-2 minutes).
- Introduction of target words for the session (usually 5-6 words).
- Play games requiring the child to practice the target words.
- Probe for next session targets.
- Repeat auditory bombardment.
What is Cycles approach in speech therapy?
The cycles approach treats children who use a lot of different phonological processes (error patterns) by targeting each process for a short amount of time and then cycling through other phonological processes.
What are the components of the cycles approach?
Cycles Phonological Remediation Approach mainly consists of four parts: Determining therapy goals, targeting one primary pattern of error intensively for a period of time, using focused auditory bombardment, lots of practice.
What is the complexity approach?
Within a complexity approach, targets are selected for treatment based on characteristics of the targets (e.g., developmental norms, implicational universals) and characteristics of children’s knowledge of the targets (e.g., accuracy, stimulability).
What are S clusters?
Welcome to ‘s’ blends practice!
When was the cycles approach invented?
The Cycles Approach (Hodson & Paden, 1983, 1991) addresses a child’s use of phonological processes by cyclically targeting affected sound classes.
When was the cycles approach created?
1991
The Cycles Approach (Hodson & Paden, 1983, 1991) addresses a child’s use of phonological processes by cyclically targeting affected sound classes. A different process is targeted every one to two weeks and two to four processes are targeted within a cycle.
Is cycles approach evidence-based?
Considering the research studies over the past three decades, Cycles Approach can be considered as an evidence-based treatment that speech-language pathologists can employ it for treating speech sound disorders with considerable assurance.
What is the Stimulability approach?
Traditionally, ‘stimulable’ has meant that a consonant or vowel can be produced in isolation by a child, in direct imitation of an auditory and visual model with or without instructions, cues, imagery, feedback and encouragement.
How do you target S?
To produce a clear /s/ sound the tongue is raised high in the mouth to almost touch the alveolar ridge, the roof of the mouth. This action by the tongue should create a groove in the center of the tongue through which the air stream flows.
What are the 12 S blends?
An ‘s’ blend is a combination of at least two consonants, the first of which is ‘s’. For example:
- Sm: small, smell, smile.
- Sn: snow, snail, snack.
- Sl: slide, slime, slip.
- Sp: spider, spin, spoon.
- Sk: skate, sky, school.
- Sw: swim, swan, sweep.
How does Hodson’s therapy work?
Lots of practice producing words containing the target sound in treatment sessions. Hodson considers all of these elements to be essential to the therapy. The idea is that, by targeting patterns of errors (rather than individual sounds), the treatment results in a system wide transfer of the trained sounds to other sounds and targets.
How has Hodson’s approach been applied in practice?
In practice, many researchers and clinicians have adapted Hodson’s approach to deal with research or service-delivery constraints (e.g. parents who are too busy or can’t afford to do three 1 hour sessions a week) (Baker & McLeod, 2011). Does it work?
When should I use the cycles approach?
The cycles approach may be used for children who meet the following criteria: 1 Highly unintelligible (difficult to understand) 2 Frequently omit or leave out sounds 3 Replace some sounds with other sounds 4 Don’t use very many consonant sounds
How long does Hodson’s treatment take?
As designed, Hodson’s treatment protocol is quite intensive and based on the idea that phonological acquisition happens slowly: 1 hour sessions, 3 times a week. Each pattern is targetted for 1-2 hours. Each cycle may last for up to 18 hours, depending on the number of error patterns the child’s speech contains.