You know, it's the one where you:
Say super strenuous sentences stuffed with silly speech sounds.Like this:
"How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"Sneakily strengthens:
- Articulation
- Speech speed
- Sense of humor
Five ways to tweak it:
- To target articulation, select tongue twisters featuring phonemes that are particularly difficult for your child; ask his or her speech therapist for suggestions, or check the IEP.
- To bolster confidence, select tongue twisters featuring phonemes your child is particularly good at ... or you're particularly bad at.
- To make a game of it, print out a bunch of tongue twisters, cut them into individual strips, put the strips in a basket, have each player draw one, and award points based on how few repetitions are needed to master it.
- To work on speed, add a stopwatch to the game and make the player who can recite the twister correctly in the shortest time the winner of each round.
- To motivate your child, use tongue twisters as "Get Out of Time-Out Free" cards; if your child can recite one correctly, he's sprung.
#1: "I Went to ..."
#2: I Spy
#3: Twenty Questions
#5: Silly Songs
