Speech therapy stimulates and develops language in children and the elderly. When making one-syllable words you have a difference in the number of consonants. A child learns the language best by discovering CVC words. Therefore, in preparation or for stimulation, this exercise: CVC words.
CV and CVC
A vowel or polyphony (oe, ie, aa) is indicated by the letter V, a consonant by the letter C. Words such as PA, OP, LA, GA, IK are therefore called CV or VC words. A child finds these words easiest and will often say them first, for example, think of the word mama where the child actually says MA and repeats this twice. Other first words are also often BA or JA.
With CVC words, the words consist of a consonant, a vowel or polyphony and a consonant again. So you get CVC words. It is important for a child to learn CVC words, because a combination of several vowels and consonants is made. This is the first step to even more difficult words such as the words SCHOOL and AUTUMN. Only do this exercise with children who already master the VC or CV words.
Getting started with CVC words
Use clear placements of CVC words for this exercise. Please note that these are actually CVC words. So words like PA and AUTUMN are not good. Each CVC word starts with one consonant, has a vowel or polyphony in the middle and ends with one consonant, not two or three.
Use images that the child actually knows. A small child often does not know words such as RAAF and LUS. Only do this exercise if the child can also pronounce the individual vowels and consonants. The child must also be able to say these in succession, so he can also make ice cream from IJ-S.
To make it not too difficult, you can chop CVC words into pieces. Use separate pictures for the vowels, consonants and diphthongs. Then name everything separately: HEAD then becomes HEAD. See the exercise ,making diphthongs, in one of the previous articles or look in the special.
When chopping the words into pieces goes well, and the child can pronounce them better and better, you start with the loose words themselves. You then leave out the individual pictures with vowels and consonants and only show the picture of the CVC word. Alternate as much as possible and play with vowels, consonants and diphthongs, so that the child learns to make all combinations.
A list of good words to practice:
- bed, leg, beak, tree, berry, crook
- tie, fat, cap, thin
- wrong, fierce, wrong
- yawn, yawn, hole, crazy
- hair, hare, high, hot
- yay, yay, yay, yak
- cheese, bald, cookie, cat, head, cold
- lane, patch, lock, lurk, read
- mouse, sparrow, make, mug, swat
- nose, not, ridge, wet
- pole, pot, puff, carrot, pan
- bar, check, rack, skirt, rat
- goatee, sock, sop, sip
- toe, top, top, branch, garden
- fish, dirty, dirty, box, full
- wash, weather, wash, wool
- soap, salt, will, six
Making it harder
Only when the CVC words all go well can you start combining consonants. For example, you will receive a CCVC word such as STOP or CLASS. You may also use the word SCHOOL, although this is a CCCVC word, it is pronounced SGOOL. In the beginning you will mainly break up the double consonants, so S-TOP and K-LAS.
Go to the special ,language development and speech therapy, and follow the entire program step by step.