Most of the time in Early Intervention I work with kiddos on building vocabulary and expanding utterances and just working on overall language development. Sometimes, if a kiddo already has a great vocabulary or has made significant progress before they age out we start working on articulation and intelligibility. Here are some final /s/ sound puzzles I made for one of my kids. I print them out on cardstock and cut a puzzle shape in between the two parts of the word. Then we work on saying each part of the word, i.e. /moo/...../s/ as we push the two pieces together. We then work on decreasing the pause between the two parts of the word so we eventually get the initial part of the word blended with the target final sound, in this case /s/. The child has been working on /s/ in isolation and /s/ paired with a single vowel. Then we move onto combining them with simple words. I find that often children are more successful working with the target sound at the end of the word first before moving onto the initial position of the word.
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