Due to influence of local dialect and home language many children either pick up only 'S' or 'SH' alone in their early childhood which hardens their vocal cords and micro-muscles of speech organs leading to articulation difficulties. However, a teacher with training in education therapy can design intervention for improving articulation of such children.
It may be clarified that education therapy is protocol based designed intervention to treat individuals with learning style differences, diagnosed disabilities, and specific mild articulation challenges. A pedagogy expert with design-thinking skills and action-research insights administers education therapy with intensively designed interventions to mitigate or remove learners' learning problems.
If a normal school going child is finding it hard to distinguish between speech sounds of 'S' or 'SH' the following guidelines can be helpful.
Therapy hints:
If the child says the 'S' for 'SH' sound, make the child pucker his or her lips slightly or pull upper teeth ridge backward (see inset pic of child) and move their tongue back slowly while speaking usual sound
Give guided practice for 5 minutes
Then give five minutes of corrective practice until you hear a good SH sound
Then for a few days let the child do individual practice in your presence
Then in sing-song way make the child recite the following lines
Content for guided articulation therapy:
S-H is SH
SH-SH-SH
She begins with SH
She-she-she
Shoe begins with SH
Shoe-shoe-shoe
Sheet begins with SH
Shut begins with SH
Likewise....
Fish ends with SH
Wish ends with SH
Dish ends with SH
Push ends with SH
Bush ends with SH
Dhawal Jain studying at Centre for Communicative English in Jaipur was prescribed 10 minute daily and total 5-hour practice of exercise of fricative sound production (see micro-video) to train micro-muscles of vocal organs leading to reasonable articulation of nine such consonant sounds of English language.
The nine English fricative sounds are: v sound;/v/; f sound /f/; voiced th sound /ð/; unvoiced th sound /θ/; z sound /z/; s sound /s/; zh sound /ʒ/; sh sound /ʃ/
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