Arm Sliders for S-Blends | Cluster Reduction Speech Therapy
by Meredith Taylor SLP © 2026
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Price: $7 USD
Subjects: articulation,phonology
Grades: 14,13,1,2
Description
Why Use S-Blend Arm Sliders for Speech Therapy? These S-Blend Speech Therapy Boom Cards provide a multisensory approach for targeting cluster reduction and teaching accurate S-blend production. Children with the phonological process of cluster reduction may omit the /s/ in an S-blend, saying “mile” instead of “smile.” S-Blend Arm Sliders provide visual, tactile, and movement-based cues to help students connect /s/ smoothly to the following consonant. 🔹 Visual + Movement Cues for S-Blends – Students move a slider down the pictured arm while producing continuous /s/. The movement provides a concrete visual cue for maintaining /s/ and connecting it to the root word. 🔹 Build the S-Blend Step by Step – Rather than requiring production of the entire consonant cluster at once, students can: 1️⃣ Say the root word (mile). 2️⃣ Add /s/ using the slider as a visual and movement cue. 3️⃣ Connect the sounds to produce the target S-blend word (smile). 🔹 Four Different S-Blend Cues – Students can choose from a Sound Slider, Picture Slider, Phoneme Slider, or Carryover Slider, allowing the SLP to vary or fade cues as the student progresses. 🔹 Multisensory Speech Therapy Practice – Students see, hear, and use movement while practicing S-blends, providing additional support beyond verbal cues alone. These interactive Boom Cards for speech therapy can be used for articulation and phonological therapy, S-blend practice, cluster reduction, speech sound disorders, and home practice.
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