A Therapy Pathway for Frontal and Lateral Speech Errors (aka "Lisps")
Speech and Language Kids Podcast · Carrie Clark, CCC-SLP
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Show Notes
Today we're talking about "lisps".
But many professionals are moving away from using the term lisp because it often carries a negative or stigmatizing connotation, especially outside of clinical contexts.
Instead, we're focusing on describing speech patterns more precisely using phonetic terms. For example:
- Frontal lisp is often described as interdental or dentalized productions of /s/ and /z/.
- Lateral lisp is often referred to as lateralized productions of /s/, /z/, and sometimes other sibilants like /ʃ/ and /ʒ/.
I'm speech-language pathologist Carrie Clark and in today's episode of The Speech and Language Kids Podcast, I'll going to give you a very clear Therapy Pathway that will lay out how to treat dentalized or lateralized productions of sibilants.