"Help Me Talk Right", How to Teach a Child to Say the "S" Sound in 15 Easy Lessons

By Mirla G. Raz

Free of technical jargon and easy to use, this book is for speech pathologists, speech assistants, and parents who wish to teach a child how to say the "S" sound and use it in conversation. Everything... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0963542605
• ISBN13: 9780963542601
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Gerstenweitz Pub
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 0.5" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Useful book

My 7-yr-old's lisp was pretty mild, and the pace of this was very easy for him, but he enjoyed having such easy success. And it is helping. It is certainly a lot easier and cheaper than going to a speech therapist regularly!

Excellent "do-it-yourself" manual for the motivated parent

My three and a half year old daughter had been doing private speech therapy (at $100 an hour) for her lisp for about one month before we moved to German-speaking Switzerland. I was afraid I wouldn't be able to find a native English speaking speech therapist in Switzerland, so I bought this book before we left the U.S. We have completed this book and it went very successfully. There are three important things to know however: (1) don't be deceived by the "15 lessons" title. There are 15 chapters, but each "lesson" is followed by 2 or 3 practice sessions. You can only do one lesson or practice session a day. Overall I think there are over 50 days of lessons/practice sessions. (2) You must be motivated to do this. The sessions are not difficult, but you must be consistent in actually doing them on a fairly regular basis. I failed miserably at this at first until I decided to do speech therapy with my daugher every day immediately after dinner. She couldn't get dessert until she had finished her speech therapy. (3) Even when you are done with the 50 or so sessions, your child's speech will not be perfect yet. After we were done with the book, my daughter could correctly make the "s" sound when reminded to do it, but she couldn't always remember to do it. You have to constantly remind your child to properly pronounce the "s" sound. The better you are about correcting your child's speech the faster he/she will progress.Overall this book was a tremendous help to our child, and well worth the purchase price.