Madelyn Speech Therapy #73 Part 2

Here are my thoughts:

1. Beach ("ch"): Madelyn is definitely putting in the /t/ before "sh" now. A lot of the time there is a pause between the 2. When the 2 are closer, "sh" is still not cut short and so that it does not sound like "ch". Is there any prompting that I can do or is this just something that will just emerge?

2. Sticker Game: Just played this as a break in between "ch" and "th" activity and listened for anything that I could correct.

3. Colouring Game ("th"): I think that Madelyn's doing well with "th" within "thanks". The "th" in today's session had a lot of saliva coming out, which I don't remember her doing previously with "th". There's a pause between "th" and "anks". I had her slow it down, because when we first tried it, she did it really quickly and "th" /n/ "anks" came out. Are some "th"s voiceless and others voiced? I was thinking that the "th" in "thanks" is voiceless, but in words like "there" is voiced. I did an activity with Maddy yesterday with "there" and it seemed weird to be doing "th" in the angry goose way for the word.

4. Song: The other day, Maddy sang this song along with me all the way through and I was quite impressed. Usually when she sings with me, she'll miss out on some words and kinda of hum instead. So I thought I'd get her to sing this song for you to show you how prosody is coming along.

The words to the song (or at least my version of it!) are:
1,2,3,4 5, today I caught a fish alive.
6,7,8,9,10, then I threw him back again.
Why did I let him go? Because he bit my finger so.
Which finger did he bite? This little finger on my right.

5. Tile Game: Not targeting any sound, just listening for things to correct.
I did an activity with "ch" and another with "th" as I wanted you to hear them both. I don't think that it was too confusing/difficult for her.
As you might have heard in the video, Madelyn did an exaggerated "pank" for "pink". She does know the difference now and was just doing it to be funny.

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[coryrudy98]

I don't know why, but this is like the cutest video ever. Haha.