AS - The Terrace Slandard, Wednesday, December 15, 1993 Cat noises a big help New way to teach spee By DAN RODGERS ANGRY CAT noises are not what comes io mind when you think about speech therapy. Not unless you are four-year- old Britta Guldbaek and speech- language pathologist. Frances Monto, They. use. these noises and _ games in their sessions to help correct speech patterns, Recreating these sounds is one of many exercises introduced in a recent research project developed by Dr. Barbara Bernhardt, an-as- sistant professor at UBC, “It’s a project on phonological intervention, basically helping children who have. specific speech difficulties and. their speech is not understood,”’ said Monro who works for the Skeena: Health Unit. “The project looks at specch . difficulties in a very different way than some of the traditional ways. Instead of looking at one sound you would look at their system of using sound. The inler- vention roll would be ‘geared to changing their systern,”’ she sald. During one ‘session the pair recrealed the story of Little Red Riding Hood on a felt board. The © ap ee BEING EYE TO EYE brings home speech lessons taught by Frances Monro, lett, to Britta Guldbaek.: Their sessions. used’ methods stemming from a recent UBC project. There were 21 studies carried out across the p ravince using four different teach- ing methods, DAN RODGERS PHOTO: - An analyst from UBC. would Hsten to an audio or video of the the parents, child and speech pathologist. The .child was ¢x- pected to attend at least two times C TRAVEL THE WORLD | During Your Lunch Hour 6 Thurs. Dee. 16 come with us te Hawail e Thurs. Jan. 6 we will visit New Zealand Brought To You By1 Chon TERRACE INN Tour A Different Country Each Week word ‘forest’ was difficult for child speaking and would analyze ‘Britta to pronounce. © | and set goals for the child. a week, preferable three times, But the word was correctly pio- ‘These are tasks that we and ran from April ihrough to Oc- nounced when Britta put an angry normally do ourselves, although tober. = = cat sound at the beginning of the we don’t have the time the re- —_‘It operates on block bases. The mg word ‘forest’, searcher has to sit down and doa child and. therapist worked on a esl The speech-language’ project indepth analysis,”’ said Monro, particular goal for four sessions was carried ‘out in 13 com- There were 21 individual case before moving to the next one. munities across B.C, with 20 studies throughout the province = ‘*It’s’_ basically looking at pat- speech and language pathologist . and for each of them four dif- ferns in the child’s speech,’’ said and 21 preschool children partici- ferent treatment methods. Monro. “So.instead of just using pating. ce 7 _ The four treatment methods. in- one sound, you would take a look “Those chosen for the project volved are, oral motor method, at their systems of using sound. were between three and four auditory awareness method, mora The intervention roll would be years old. They had significant method and the onset rhyme geared to changing their sys- problem wilh their speech, had method. tems.” . English as a first language and “The idea was to compats the “I can’t spend the time doing had no physical problems. treatment methods and the child’s the analysis to the same degree as These guidelines were. used to progress in each of those treat- was done during the project. But ensure the findings. would not be ment areas,” said Monro. to the extent that Iam able to ana- affected by other factors. The project 1s very intense for lyze achild’s specch.”” gains through the course of the " project, the techniques that were * Jearned are very valuable, and we will be ‘able to carry them out with other “My client” made excellent "Leche compiled into,a, manual, at the end of the research project and Will ‘be available to interested The child is bombarded with — HERE'S A brief guideline marie on some of the speech meth- stories, . poems, tonguc- ve ods taught twisters and songs: ae Mele provided een na The oral motor basically The mora method divides , the words up according to _ ‘Mon. : the stressed and unstressed - "parts, creating an awareness of the paris of a word. " ‘This involves using physi- cal-items to show, how ‘the . parts of the word works’ to- gives the child movement awareness .of. speech mus- cles “—* what the sound looked, felt, and sounded like when spoken. 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