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Focus on speech sounds: Emphasize the sound a letter makes rather than the letter itself. For example, remind a student to say the “shh” sound, rather the “s” “h” sound. Give specific feedback: Give students' specific feedback for saying sounds correctly. For example, “Wow!

Stimulability is influenced by age, but not by gender. Conclusion: The stimulability test is effective to identify stimulable children among those who present absent sounds from their phonetic inventory. Children with SSD and absent sounds have lower PCC-R, and therefore present more severe disorder.

Why is articulation important to reading? Proper articulation of phonemes is essential for students to successfully decode, read, and spell words. If students articulate incorrectly when they sound out words in spelling, they will struggle to apply the appropriate grapheme to each sound.

Stimulability Testing Stimulability is the child's ability to accurately imitate a misarticulated sound when the clinician provides a model.

If a child cannot correctly imitate a sound, we say that he/she is not stimulable for that sound. In this case, direct intervention services with the SLP may be required. Direct intervention will help the child learn and practice correct production of the misarticulated or omitted sounds.

Articulation stimulability refers to testing whether a child can imitate correct production of a speech sound. If a child can correctly imitate a sound, we say he/she is stimulable for that sound. This means that the sound will likely develop to correct production without direct intervention.

Traditionally, 'stimulable' has meant that a consonant or vowel can be produced in isolation by a child, in direct imitation of an auditory and visual model with or without instructions, cues, imagery, feedback and encouragement.

Stimulability probes should be one assessment tool when conducting an evaluation for speech sound disorders. The child's ability to correctly produce sounds in different contexts given visual and verbal cues from the evaluator is an important factor in considering eligibility for services.