Acoustic Highlighting
Definition: Added vocal emphasis is placed on an identified target. A target can consist of important sounds, words, parts of phrases, or grammatical structures in a sentence.
Definition taken from Sherri Fickenscher & Dan Salvucci
Chapter 7 – Listening And SpokenLanguage Strategies
EXAMPLES:
“Can you put the cow IN the barn?” “Put the pig NEXT TO the sheep” “He IS drawing” “What is SHE doing?”
Explanation:
I use this one literally all the time. It’s so easy to incorporate into your sessions, you can literally do it with any target word! If you are going to be highlighting a word though, it’s important that you are able to highlight that word MANY times during your session so it’s not emphasized just once or twice. If you are working in vs on, work on that throughout your session in lots of different ways! Pointing it out in books, playing with toys, 2-step directions etc.
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