Maximal Opposition Bundle

by HearSay SLT

Price: 1800 points or $18 USD

Subjects: speech,phonology,articulation,listeningSkills,speakingListening

Grades: 14,13,1,2,3

Description: Buy the bundle and get 2 decks FREE. In this bundle you are sure to find a maximal opposite pair that can be used for your client. Maximal opposites have been shown to be an effective way to help "re-organize" the child's phonological system. Targeting auditory discrimination, isolation of sounds (using the touch and say) approach and the use of target words in formulaic sentences when playing the "spot the difference" game. This approach is best suited for children who: * have a limited phonetic inventory * have inconsistent productions * are very unintelligible * have difficulty attending to minimal distinctions in words. Based on an approach by Carol Koch and others- maximally different sounds may be easier to learn due to the greater salient differences between contrasted sounds. According to research done by Gierut (1989, 1990), using maximal contrast pairs resulted in greater improvement in target sounds, more additions of untreated sounds and less over generalization to known sounds,