What is The Entire World of R
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What is The Entire World of R™?
The Entire World of R™ is
a proven research-based program for evaluating and treating the difficult
/r/ phoneme. The program comprises a complete suite of products designed
to meet your specific /r/ remediation needs.
If you are reading this, you already know
that /r/ (also known as vocalic R, R-controlled vowels, or vowel-R),
is a difficult, elusive, and frustrating sound to treat.
According to a recent survey of over 100 speech-language pathologists (SLPs),
/r/ is one of the most difficult tasks on their caseloads. The reasons
they gave; lack of good training and lack of a comprehensive
strategy...until now.
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The
Entire World of R™ approach is to evaluate and treat /r/
phonologically, based on word position and individual sound. Phonetically,
/r/ has 8 distinct vocalic variations:
/ar/, /air/, /ear/, /ire/, /or/, /er/,
/rl/, and prevocalic /r/. Separated further by initial, medial, and final
word positions, there are 21 different types of /r/ in total. |
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ability to separate the /r/ into its most basic phonetic components and
word positions--phonetic consistency--is the key for successful
remediation. No other remediation program targets the basic components of
/r/ like The Entire World of R™.
If the clinician can correctly evaluate
which /r/ phoneme and word position is causing difficulty for the student,
then a targeted remediation strategy can be employed. Just as one uses
different exercise machines in a gym to work on different muscle groups,
so should articulation therapy for /r/ address each of the 8 sounds in
each of the word positions.
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Consider the sample word list: car,
fear, four, butter, software. Now compare with a list from our
/air/ final words; millionaire, square, stare, tear, pear.
Read both word lists aloud. Even the untrained ear can tell the difference
immediately. The first list, from materials of what we consider the
"traditional" method has no phonetic consistency. The strength
of The Entire World of R™ phonologic approach is that only
one phoneme and its word position is targeted at a time. For
more information on /r/ strategy and techniques, click here.
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The
Entire World of R™ is proven effective. In a follow-up
study after a training session, 27 out of 28 SLPs responded (96%) that
they considered that the phonemic methodology of The Entire World of
R™ had proven to be effective in their therapy. Over half (53%)
had dismissed at least one /r/ disorder child from their caseload within 6
months. In rating how much their /r/ students had improved as a result of
implementing phonemic /r/ remediation strategies, the mean grade of the
SLPs was 8.22 (on a 10 point scale, 1=no improvement, 10=great
improvement). Most persuasive is that all 24 SLPs that had used at least
one Entire World of R™ product said they would recommend
it to other SLPs.
Listed below you will find the complete product line for The Entire
World of R™ |
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