Dough cutters used to create objects to elicit letter sounds for educational learning and speech development.

Abstract

An interactive hands-on approach for speech and letter sound production. Sets of dough cutters are designed categorized by sound pattern or phoneme placement and used in teaching children through repetition of words/objects containing these sounds. Sound patterns are chosen to address with children and dough cutters are used to make target words into three dimensional sound shapes and expand with repetition of sounds and use of pivot phrases.

Claims

1. A method for speech sound and letter production, comprising of: use of dough cutter designed for specific sound, and providing repetition and multimodal learning, and accompanied by an illustrated articulation card, whereby said cutter is used in conjunction with dough and card to obtain learning of speech sounds.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[0007] FIG. 1 is an outline used to create 3-d image

[0008] FIG. 2 is the 3-d image for prototype

[0009] FIG. 3 is the master

[0010] FIG. 4 is the accompanying articulation card

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0011] After carefully selecting sound combinations or letter sounds to be addressed, an object is chosen to represent the sounds and an outline is used to create a 3-D image for printing. 3-D image is created and sent to 3-D extruder for prototyping. After prototyping is concluded, a master is made for production. An illustrated articulation card is used in conjunction with cutter for sound production.