The mild and moderate speech impairments become visible when children enter pre-school or kindergarten. It has been found that a common speech disorder of lipsing creates problem in pronouncing certain consonants. According to some estimates available, about 20 per cent people have lipsing problem of one or more consonants.
It is often advised, if a child has a lisp beyond age 5, special speech-language interventions can help a good number of children to correct their lipsing or else the child can be referred to a speech therapist for severe lipsing due to lateral, dentalized, interdental and platal problems. Teacher' intervention requires home-support and practice to remove lipsing.
A teacher with little effort can help children by designing interventions for lips-causing consonants or blended sounds in the form poems for a four to eight practice words with initial lips-consonant that is causing problem. Later, the teacher must design intervention with blended sounds.
So, create poems, sentences and phrases with frequent lipsing consonant sounds to give practice through modelling, demonstration, assisted practice and then echo-singing with remediation followed by echo-speaking practice of 6-10 words.
Here is the poem created (see inset visual) for 'chh'-lipsing child (5 years old dysgrahic child) and he responded well after ten-hour intervention with dedicated practice.
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