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<\/a>Reading to your children helps build language skills and encourages correct sound production.<\/p><\/div>\n
Yes, Books<\/strong> are excellent speech therapy tools and effective way to improve articulation disorder. As we continue our in-depth look at tools for speech therapy, we take a look at books. Reading to your child is one of the most important things you can do as a parent or caregiver whether or not you child has a speech disorder. As we have mentioned before<\/a>, reading to your child helps make connections with what he or she is hearing and functions as a building block to language development. Reading comprehension is an essential tool for a child\u2019s future academic achievement and social well-being. Not only does reading books serve as an effective form of speech therapy, it’s an excellent way to engage and entertain your child. The books listed below are not intended to replace speech therapy with an SLP. Rather, these are books that you can read at home with your child, to encourage sound production and set them up for correct articulation patterns.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An interesting statistic in The Partnership for Accessible Reading Assessment (PARA) states that\u00a0there is evidence of a relationship between language impairments and reading disabilities, showing that a majority of native English speaking students who do not develop proficient reading skills in English had an early history of spoken-language deficits (Catts, Fey, Tomblin, & Zhang, 2002).<\/p>\n As we have discussed this week in our in-depth Speech Therapy Tools series, when it comes to articulation the most difficult sounds to pronounce are R,S,L,CH and SH. Below are a few recommendations for books that work on each sound. Of course, these are just a few, but these cover the basic sounds and are engaging and entertaining! Enjoy.<\/p>\n R Sound:<\/b><\/p>\n The Very Hungry Caterpillar<\/i> by Eric Carle<\/p>\n Harriet\u2019s Horrible Hair Day<\/i> by Dawn Lesley Stewart<\/p>\n S Sound:<\/b><\/p>\n The Itsy Bitsy Spider<\/i> by Iza Trapani<\/p>\n Sledding<\/i> by Elizabeth Winthrop<\/p>\n White Snow, Bright Snow<\/i> by Alvin Tresselt<\/p>\n L Sound:<\/b><\/p>\n 5 Little Lady Bugs<\/i> by Karyn Henley<\/p>\n Big, Small, Little Red Ball<\/i> by Emma Dodd<\/p>\n Look Book<\/i> by Tana Hoban<\/p>\n SH Sound:<\/b><\/p>\n Sheep on a Ship<\/i> by Nancy Shaw<\/p>\n I Love My Shadow<\/i> by Hans Wilhelm<\/p>\n Splish, Splash!<\/i> by Sarah Weeks Ah-Choo!<\/i> by Margery Cuyler<\/p>\n Chicka Chicka Boom Boom<\/i> by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault<\/p>\n Itchy, Itchy Chicken Pox<\/i> by Grace MacCarone<\/p>\nWhy Are Books Excellent Tools For Speech Therapy?<\/h2>\n
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