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...

I ran across this interesting article in Advance Magazine for Speech-Language Pathologists. It’s an interesting intersection between history, lingusistics, speech and the /r/ sound. Researchers from Baylor University used historical recordings to trend pronunciation of /r/ and peg such pronunciation to social status and education. Students at Baylor University, in Waco, TX, haven’t been minding their P’s and Q’s...