This week I will be writing about a technique called chaining. Chaining is a technique primarily used with children who are highly unintelligible. The therapist would teach one phoneme or syllable of the desired word at a time, and then bring them together in a sequence. This could be done forwards or backwards.
For example:
- Forward Chaining: "Basketball", /bæskətbɒl/
- "Say, /bæs/, say, /bæskət/, say /bæskətbɒl/"
- "Say, /kəl/, say, /sɪkəl/, say /bajsɪkəl/"
It's up to the therapist which type of chaining they would prefer to do, however it's important to keep in consideration the child's phonological process errors. There is not much research on chaining that I could find, but I did upload the link to where I got most of my information.
If anyone has used this technique please leave a comment below with more information (has it been helpful, what population do you use it with, etc.)
I've used backwards chaining with numerous kids. Is this something that you will be adding to the POC goals? <3
ReplyDeleteI definitely think the phonology goals would benefit from adding the techniques on there!
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