Measuring Progress I have found that an effective way to measure progress is to keep track of correctly produced and stimulable words.  The kids and I have customized a definition of what stimulable means. It is not correct, but not completely misproduced.  If I have a group of students, I will give one student at a time a turn and have the other students in the group work on ear training and listening to  correct, incorrect and stimulable...

It is progress report time.  How will you report progress to teachers, parents and administrators?  The first and easiest way I find to do this is to keep daily progress notes for each student.  When I do this, the notes and percentages are right in front of me.  How do I keep progress for vocalic /r/?   I use the baseline results page found in the Entire World of R book of Elicitation Techniques and in the Entire World of R Advanced...

  Below  is a chart of age ranges for normal development for the various allophones of /r/.  It is important to keep in mind that the typical development ranges according to the student and the way that the study was designed. Prevocalic or consonantal /r/as in words such as red, run and race are acquired approximately around  5 years of age. Initial /r/ blends develop around age 8, with the exception of the consonant clusters thr as in...

This week Christine appeared on Lifetime’s The Balancing Act TV show to speak about Addriya and how teaching is better with Yoga! Video is available online here: http://www.thebalancingact.com/story/?id=4122