Sunday, May 2, 2010

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,

Check out the ROUNDING of these lips!
After many, mANY, MANY months
of working toward this sound ...

.... WE FINALLY HAVE THE
LONG O AND OO!
(make sure to turn the music off on the left first)



Now, this video doesn't capture the /oo/ as well as he truly says it,
as he's not much of an on-the-spot performer and
says it quite well when the camera is not
close by. You may notice too, his first /oo/
sounds like /m/ which we always watch closely,
as these two sounds can be easily confused
and could show a mapping issue if Aiden were
to consistently confuse them.

Some words we've added to his vocabulary list,
or have made clearer with his new sounds are:

uh-OH
(instead of uh-um)

WHOA
(as in whenever he trips or falls, and with QUITE the emphasis I might add)

shjoo
(for juice)

mo-mo!
(no-no as he yells at the cats)

Elmo
(instead of just "elm")
mo
(instead of ma for more)

Now if we could get that dang /ee/ out of him.

1 comment:

leah said...

Way to go, Aiden! It won't be long before you have all those low-frequency sounds down pat!