Speech therapy – Nic & Jane 27/05
Movement – Breathing – Sounds – Words
- How many syllables for “movement” – how many beats (2 beats).
- Do big movements vs little movements.
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Move the right hand (any way you like)
- Move the left thumb
- Move the right foot
- Can you move your tongue (any way you like)
- Can you move your cheek (identify, where is) – move your cheek without hands ……… how to?
- close your mouth
- keep the air in your mouth
- Can you move your teeth – any way you like
- Can you move your face – not with your hands
- Can you move your belly (breathing)
HOMEWORK – PRACTICE
Change of facial expressions!
Can you look mean?
Can you look happy?
Can you look sad?
BREATHING
HOMEWORK – PRACTICE
Identify Body Parts needed for breathing/speaking
Ribcage
Diaphragm (big muscle under lungs)
Lungs
Breath horizontally
Jane placed hands under ribs (from the back); Nic had to try to push hands away by breathing
Breath vertically
Take a deep breath (hands on shoulders, hand should go up and down)
Belly breathing
Push out – (Nic could do that, but not very well, push hands away from belly by breathing)
Breath sounds – (put hand in front of mouth)
- Dog panting – do 3 in a row
- “Exhausting dog” – how many can Nic do?short repetitive breaths
- “bored Nic” – long, big breath
HOMEWORK – PRACTICE
Move hand slowly away from mouth – exhale until arm is stretched away from body to the side – (practice deep long exhaling).
Nic runs out of breath early – needs to try to get further out.