The+r+sound+and+articulation

Why is it so difficult for some children to say the /r/ sound? The /r/ sound is very difficult for a number of reasons. The /r/ sound does not have an anchor for the articulators but rather the sound is called a glide because your articulators glide over the position. The below link has some excellent resources: [] This is an ASHA reference " Give me a r" [] [] R articulation

http://entireworldofr.wordpress.com/ This is produced by the Entire World of R http://www.playingwithwords365.com/2011/10/my-tricks-to-teaching-the-r-sound/ This has some really nice suggestions http://www.sayitright.org/R_Phonetic_Consistency.html This talks about how to start therapy and the number of sounds you should do. http://www.ohioslha.org/pdf/Convention/2012%20Handouts/SpeechSC13C.pdf Excellent handout. Some of you are doing the Entire World of R

Here is a link that has a video on how to score: []

This is a very quick test that takes at the most 15 minutes but is really even shorter than that.