Speech
See and Learn Speech teaches children to listen to, learn and produce the sounds that make up spoken words, to put these sounds together, and to say whole words more clearly.
See and Learn Speech is designed to teach children with Down syndrome to listen to, learn and produce speech sounds, to hear the differences between speech sounds, to develop their speech sound system, and to produce clearer speech.
How See and Learn Speech helps
See and Learn Speech offers a structured approach to support early speech development, working in small steps towards clearer speech production and practising skills including:
- becoming familiar with speech sounds - storing sounds in the memory system
- discriminating between speech sounds - hearing the differences between sounds
- producing speech sounds - individual sounds and simple combinations
- combining speech sounds - learning to say vowel-consonant combinations
- saying words - saying words that begin with a particular sound
- saying more complex words - saying words that have one, two, three and four syllables and putting words together
Learning speech sounds helps children to learn more words and may improve their verbal short term memory development.
Steps
See and Learn Speech currently includes five steps. Each step focuses on the development of specific speech skills through a series of activities, with subsequent steps building on the skills learned in previous steps.
Speech Sounds
See and Learn Speech Sounds supports activities that encourage attention, listening, discrimination and the production of the sounds that make up speech.
Combining Sounds
See and Learn Combining Sounds offers activities to practise early vowel-consonant combinations in speech.
Saying Words 1
See and Learn Saying Words 1 supports the imitation and repetition of one- and two-syllable words, each starting with a speech sound that is among those usually learned first (
Saying Words 2
See and Learn Saying Words 2 supports the imitation and repetition of one- and two-syllable words, each starting with a speech sound that is among those usually learned early (
Saying Words 3
See and Learn Saying Words 3 supports the imitation and repetition of one- and two-syllable words, each starting with a speech sound that is among those usually learned early (
Ready to get started?
Step through our guidance on how and when to get started with See and Learn.
