iSATPAC - Online Tour

1) Choose a seed word with your target sound from the drop down list.

In this case /s/ is the target for a student with a frontal lisp.

2) Eliminate any sounds from your lists that interfere with the target sound (th,Th) or are not in the student’s repertoire (r).

3) Push the Create button to generate your lists

Here are lists 1 and 2:

One of the main reasons that SATPAC is so effective is that students develop a consistently correct motor pattern due to the uniform words presented and minimal changes that occur from word to word. Note in list 1 that each word systematically follows the Place-Manner chart and the Vowel Circle in the first two positions of the word followed by the pattern tseet. In list 2, the systematic pattern beets is used followed by changes that occur after the /s/ which is more difficult for the student.

Here are lists 3 and 4:

List 3 mixes patterns from the first two lists with every other word containing beets or tseet. In list 4, the student is ready to say the /s/ sound in any context and no longer needs the abutting /t/ (which was present in the first three lists) to facilitate correct /s/ production.

Here is list 5, a contrasting stress list:

The SLP reads the questions and the student responds with the top sentence using appropriate inflection based upon the word that was changed (e.g. SLP: A boy bought an old beetseet? Student: No, a boy bought a new beetseet). Practice occurs taking stress away from the target sound which is more like normal conversation and leads to quicker generalization. The student is also generating novel sentences which again is a more complex task and again more like normal conversation.

There are 50 phrases abutting every consonant sound in both the prevocalic and postvocalic position (e.g., soft whisper, knapsack mess, single houseboy etc.). There are 100 target sounds making it easy for documentation.

Short sentences with 50 prevocalic and postvocalic target sounds are next:

After completion of the short sentences, longer sentences loaded with the target sound are presented if appropriate. There are 100 target sounds for ease of documentation:

The generalization/transfer phase continues with contrasting sentences. In this case, the difficult /th/ sounds are contrasted with the /s/ sounds in both short sentences and longer sentences:

Many students are remediated at this point. If not, other activities such as reading from classroom texts, answering questions about what was read, telling narratives, using transfer activities such as SPARC for /s/, etc. would be appropriate.

Target profile setup for Childhood Apraxia of Speech with eliminated consonant sounds.

List 1 contains reduplicated CVCVs:

List 2 contains reduplicated consonants with random vowels:

List 3 contains systematic vowels with random consonants:

List 4 is all random:

For the fronting process, all consonant sounds are eliminated except for /t,d,k,g/ In List 3, note how the student gets to practice the difficult front to back and back to front movements with the random consonants.

The CCCVC word sprach is entered.

List 1 is systematic and List 2 is random following the 3-Element cluster spr.