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What is bonzi buddys speach sound4/5/2024 For example, when I used the seal to elicit /s/ with central air stream production, Jace simply “adjusted” his tongue on the speech buddy (despite my best efforts to prevent him from doing so) to produce /s/ laterally resulting in sound distortion. Needless to say that numerous attempts using speech buddies were not productive, to say the least. Jace also has a number of other issues going on including poor jaw stability, fine and gross motor function deficits as well as significant tongue groping. Jace has a pretty complex speech profile and presents with a number of unsuppressed phonological processes such as stopping, palatal fronting, and a few other processes as well as a frontal and a lateral lisp (yes you’ve read this correctly). In other words for Brock, the use of speech buddies was great but no different from the use of other simple placement tools.įinally, there was my last client who is 4.5 years old. However, when the speech buddies were replaced by other oral placement tools Brock also produced all the speech sound appropriately as well as was able to produce select sounds e.g., /s/, /sh/, /r/ spontaneously without placement assistance. Brock produced the required sounds with all the speech buddies appropriately. With Brock, I have trialed 4/5 speech buddies targeting all the affected sounds for two sessions. My third client let’s call him Brock was an 8-year-old with a frontal lisp affecting all sibilants as well as an /r/ distortion. Unfortunately, rather than improving his sound production Van began to actually produce the sound with a tangible distortion (something which did not happen in the past when I attempted tongue placement for the /l/ with the cotton-tipped applicator) so I had to discontinue the use of the ‘lion’ immediately because I didn’t wish to undo all the gains he had achieved to date. The one sound he still had some intermittent trouble with was /l/ so I decided to use the ‘lion’ with him to see whether it will expedite his progress. At that time Van was stimulable for all sounds and was making good progress in therapy on slowing down his speech rate to be more intelligible. Interestingly, later after I initiated the use of the tongue depressor as well as cotton-tipped applicator to aid with tongue placement, I was able to finally elicit /r/ productively and without distortions. Dale was able to uncurl the coil to slide the tongue but then continued groping movements with his tongue, so the /r/production continued to be distorted. I used the ‘rabbit’ with him for the duration of 3 more sessions, but unfortunately also unsuccessfully. Prior to receiving the set I had worked with him for 3 sessions and attempted to elicit the sound unsuccessfully. Dale had only one residual sound error: the dreaded /r/. So after receiving my set I immediately started trialing each individual speech buddy with my clients.įirst up was the 9-year-old, let’s call him Dale. They are marketed to both: speech-language professionals as well as parents and average about $300 per set of 5 and $124 individually.īelow you can see a diagram showing how to position each speech buddy in the child’s mouth in order to elicit a sound. So what are speech buddies exactly? For those of you who are unfamiliar with this product here’s a few pictures:Įssentially these are articulation tools (with cute animal names such as rabbit, cheetah, shark, lion, and seal) with specially designed tips aimed at teaching tongue placement for the following sounds: /r/, /s/, /sh/, /ch/ and /l/. Do the speech buddies justify their cost?.How does the use of a speech buddy compare with the use of a “traditional” oral placement implements (e.g., bite block, tongue depressor, cotton tip applicator, etc). Does the use of a particular speech buddy really shorten the time needed to attain sound mastery? (Since on their intro page a chart shows them to be twice as faster in eliciting correct sound production).Prior to initiating the use of the speech buddies I have posed a number of questions for myself including: My client’s ages were 3.5, 4.5, 8, and 9. So today I’ll be describing my experiences using speech buddies in speech therapy with several clients.
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