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Facilitative Contexts for Targets and Words

In this 60-minute seminar, we will apply our knowledge of phonetics to create facilitative contexts. Facilitative contexts offer clients an opportunity to produce a sound or word correctly based on the surrounding phonemes. This is relevant to clinicians working with children who have speech sound disorders. We will also briefly discuss the application to reading and spelling.

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Facilitative Contexts for Targets and Words

In this 60-minute seminar, we will apply our knowledge of phonetics to create facilitative contexts. Facilitative contexts offer clients an opportunity to produce a sound or word correctly based on the surrounding phonemes. This is relevant to clinicians working with children who have speech sound disorders. We will also briefly discuss the application to reading and spelling.

Presenters

  • Kelly Farquharson,

    Ph.D., CCC-SLP

    Kelly Farquharson, Ph.D., CCC-SLP is an SLP, an associate professor, and director of the Children Literacy and Speech Sound Lab at Florida State University. Her research interests include school-aged children with phonological and language disorders, the effect of those disorders on the acquisition of literacy skills, and the cognitive, environmental, and academic factors that contribute to phonological and language disorders. Her work is published in the American Journal of Speech Language Pathology, the Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, Language, Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, Journal of Communication Disorders, and the International Journal of Speech Language Pathology, among others.

Learning Objectives

Describe how front vowels create a facilitative context
List 10 words with diphthongs in the English language.
Explain how the surrounding phonemes in words can make a word more difficult to produce.

Agenda

Agenda

5 minutesIntroduction
10 minutesVowel quadrilateral review
10 minutesFront and back vowels
10 minutesHigh and low vowels; diphthongs
10 minutesAllophonic variation
10 minutesApplication to reading and spelling
5 minutesConclusions

Disclosures

Disclosures

Speakers - FinancialKelly is a faculty member at Florida State University and receives a salary for that. She is receiving an honorarium for presenting this work, and residual income from the sales of the Embracing Expertise Series as a co-creator. She also has an Instagram account (@classlab_FSU) through which she has the capacity to earn income through sponsored posts and affiliate links.
Speakers - NonfinancialKelly has no relevant nonfinancial relationships to disclose.
Course - ContentNone
Course - Financial Support & In KindThis course, and all courses in the Embracing Expertise Series, are being sponsored by SLP Toolkit and CLaSS Lab at Florida State University.

ASHA

ASHA

This course is offered for 0.1 ASHA CEUs, Advanced Level, Professional Area

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