Speechercise CD Songs/Practice Speech Therapy Ages 5-9

SPEECHercise Level II- Ages 5 to 9 - A Musical Workout for Your Mouth!

Songs, drills, and strategies designed to help children develop proper speech and articulation skills! Follow the workout leaders through musical exercises that target tongue and teeth placement; challenging beginning, middle, and ending consonant sounds; and more complex consonant-vowel transitions. Targets include: f and v, s and z, ch and j, sh and s, th, l, r, and w.

Great practice for young children beginning to develop speech habits OR those who may

• make inconsistent sound errors
• stutter
• be hard for listeners to understand
• have difficulty coordinating the lips, tongue, and jaw when speaking
• shorten sentences so it is not obvious that they struggle to pronounce certain sounds
struggle to produce a certain sound and end up substituting, distorting, omitting, or adding another sound instead

Developed in consultation with M. Troy McClowry, a nationally certified Speech-Language Pathologist

Bonus! The Enhanced CD includes a USER GUIDE with information on childhood speech and language problems and tips for using the Speechercise™ exercises; LYRICS for reference; and WORKSHEETS for more practice. Print the pages from your own computer.