Teaching · Speech & Language

Tea or key: the contrast, the trials, the score.

Set up the word sets that pit the child’s error against the target, count trials and correct as you go, and note the step and cues. The summary shows each set’s percent correct, the session total against your criterion, and which sets to keep.

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The session

One record per student and session. Use initials or a code, never a name. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Speech & Language$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
For each session, the approach and targets, every word set with trials and percent correct, the step and cues, and a summary against the criterion with the sets to keep for next time.
Who it is for
Speech-language pathologists, clinical fellows and graduate clinicians treating speech sound disorders with contrast approaches.
Format
Browser form used during the session. Several saved sessions per student; printed with the summary or as a blank data sheet; CSV with one row per session or the word-set table; export and import a file.
Access
$12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Speech & Language toolkit ($79) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Speech & Language space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
teakeyk
Drawn for this page. When the child says tea but means key, the listener hands over the wrong picture, and the child hears why the sound matters.

How to use it

  1. Start a record with the student’s initials or a code and the session date.
  2. Pick the approach, write the error and the target, and choose the word position.
  3. Add each word set: the error word and the target word or words.
  4. Count trials and correct for each set as you work through the step.
  5. Read the summary against your criterion and note what to keep for next session.

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What the record is for

Three contrast approaches

Minimal pairs contrast the child’s error with the target in words one sound apart, such as tea and key. Maximal oppositions contrast a target with a sound that differs in many features. Multiple oppositions contrast the one sound a child uses for several targets with all of them at once, such as tea against key, see and chee. In each, the point is meaning: the wrong sound gets the wrong picture.

Counting trials

Count each production as one trial and decide before the session what counts as correct. Percent correct is correct divided by trials. Clinicians often move on at 80% or 90% across two sessions; set the criterion that fits the child’s plan.

What this form is not

It does not choose targets, an approach or a criterion, and it is not an assessment. Its percentages describe one session’s trials.

Sources

  1. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Practice Portal: Speech Sound Disorders: Articulation and Phonology (treatment: contrast approaches).
  2. Williams, A. L., McLeod, S., and McCauley, R. J. (eds.). Interventions for Speech Sound Disorders in Children, 2nd edition (2021), chapters on minimal pairs, multiple oppositions and maximal oppositions.
  3. Baker, E. (2010). The multiple opposition approach. In Williams, McLeod and McCauley (eds.), Interventions for Speech Sound Disorders in Children.
  4. Gierut, J. A. (2001). Complexity in phonological treatment: clinical factors. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 32(4), 229 to 241.

The example child and session are made up. The record counts trials in one session; targets, approach and criteria are the clinician’s decisions. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.