/w/ Say Some Sounds
Channel: Little Leaf Down Syndrome Early Education 
Date: 10/03/2021

How to use this video. 
1. Praise your child for listening to the sound, moving lips, or attempting any sound during this video. 
 2. Interact with your child while watching; model what you would like to see them do, like, say the sound, say the words, and use the hand cues for the sounds, turn your voice on. 
3. Make it FUN! High fives, bubbles, tickles, anything your child loves.
*Your child may need to watch the video many times before they can say the sound or make an approximation of the sound. 
*Very young children can turn their voices on with a lot of repetition and encouragement. Learning to turn voice on and off is very important to speech development.

CHALLENGES:
Typical challenges for children with Down syndrome that makes speech development speech difficult. 
1. Sound differentiation, meaning the ability to hear the differences between sounds. Some sounds are very similar. It can be challenging to hear with even the slightest hearing problems, including fluid in the ear. What can be done, listing to the sound in isolation many times, watching mouth movements, using hand cues when learning a new sound, the written letter, and learning about the sound, like the voice on voice off. 
2. Storing sounds in-memory system, meaning that it may take many opportunities to hear a sound before stored in the memory system. 

DAY-TO-DAY ACTTIVTYS:
When working with your child on sounds in other environments, this is where it really happens; use the video's langue, like "the wow sound." 

OTHER RELATED VIDEOS 
How to say the W sound by Peachie Speechie 
https://youtu.be/RwF_2tzrte4 

SIDE NOTE:
Some children may mouth or chew on hands, fingers, or toys during the videos. Encourage mothing or chewing on appropriate items; your child is learning how to use his or her mouth. If your child is not chewing or mouthing, they do not need the input, and that is OK.

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