Backward Chaining in DTTC: Practicing "Funny"

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Direct imitation.

Clinician: Okay, let's say "funny."

Child: "Buh-dee."

Model: move with me.

Clinician: Watch my mouth, and I want you to move with me: "funny."

Child: "Buh-dee."

Cue: the starting mouth.

Clinician: Okay, I really want you to look at my mouth, especially my starting mouth, and do what I do. So can you bite your bottom lip like this? "Fffff." This is your starting mouth. And watch me: "fff." Can you hear how the air is coming out? "Fff."

Child: "Bu—" (stopped right away, so there's no negative practice)

Cue: reset the starting mouth.

Clinician: So what you want to do is, you want to bite your bottom lip and you want to blow: "ffff."

Child: "Ffff."

Cue: start at the end.

Clinician: Great! Okay, nice air. Now we're going to do the end part. Watch my tongue: "nnnneee." Do you see how my tongue tip is up in my mouth, "nnnn," and then my lips smile? Can you try with me? "Nee… nee… nee."

Child: "Nee… nee… nee."

Clinician: Great!

Cue: chain it back.

Clinician: Now we're going to go back to our starting mouth: "fffuuunnnee."

Child: "Fffuuunnnee."

Cue: the whole word.

Clinician: You got it! Let's do it together: "funny!"

Clinician and child together: "Funny!"