Core Vocabulary

Core Vocabulary

• Population:
• Ages: 2 year and older
• Recommended for:
• children inconsistent errors
• children with multiple errors
• NOT recommended for apraxic children

• Dosage:
• Twice a week for 30 minutes
• Ideally will see consistency within 8 weeks
• Target of 70 words
• Chosen by parents, child, or teacher/SLP
• Want to include a FUNCTIONAL set of words
• related to every day life
• Focus on 10 target words per week
• Practicing at home is VITAL
• SLP should be mindful and give parental/caregiver feedback

• Goals of Therapy

1. Child to achieve an appropriate productive realization of each target based on the child’s phonological system and inventory 
2. Consistently use the established best production 

• Therapy Outline:
• Session 1: 
• Establishing Best Production
• SLP teaches the 10 target words selected at random from the 70
• Words taught sound-by-sound – segmentation, imitation, and cued articulation
• Children with inconsistent SSD are usually able to imitate all sounds 
• Session 2:
• Drill Approach
• Practicing the target words – through games
• Moving from sounds, to words, to short sentences, to spontaneous speech
• Testing/saying the list of 10 words 3 times
• 100 responses – high rate
• 150 to 170 not out of the question 

• Generalization:
• Once every 14 days, one therapy session should monitor for change/generalization 
• 14 days/ every 4th sessions
• Use 10 untreated items/words and elicit them three times

• Other Comments:
• Once child is consistent you could potentially continue therapy, but using a different approach