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What is The Entire World of R™?
The Entire World of R™ is a proven research-based program for evaluating and treating the difficult /r/ phoneme. The program comprises a complete suite of products designed to meet your specific /r/ remediation needs.
If you are reading this, you already know that /r/ (also known as vocalic R, R-controlled vowels, or vowel-R), is a difficult, elusive, and frustrating sound to treat. According to a recent survey of over 100 speech-language pathologists (SLPs), /r/ is one of the most difficult tasks on their caseloads. The reasons they gave; lack of good training and lack of a comprehensive strategy...until now.
The Entire World of R™ approach is to evaluate and treat /r/ phonologically, based on word position and individual sound. Phonetically, /r/ has 8 distinct vocalic variations:
/ar/, /air/, /ear/, /ire/, /or/, /er/,
/rl/, and prevocalic /r/. Separated further by initial, medial, and final word positions, there are 21 different types of /r/ in total.
The ability to separate the /r/ into its most basic phonetic components and word positions--phonetic consistency--is the key for successful remediation. No other remediation program targets the basic components of /r/ like The Entire World of R™.
If the clinician can correctly evaluate which /r/ phoneme and word position is causing difficulty for the student, then a targeted remediation strategy can be employed. Just as one uses different exercise machines in a gym to work on different muscle groups, so should articulation therapy for /r/ address each of the 8 sounds in each of the word positions.
Consider the sample word list: car, fear, four, butter, software. Now compare with a list from our /air/ final words; millionaire, square, stare, tear, pear.
Read both word lists aloud. Even the untrained ear can tell the difference immediately. The first list, from materials of what we consider the "traditional" method has no phonetic consistency. The strength of The Entire World of R™ phonologic approach is that only one phoneme and its word position is targeted at a time. For more information on /r/ strategy and techniques, click here.
The Entire World of R™ is proven effective. In a follow-up study after a training session, 27 out of 28 SLPs responded (96%) that they considered that the phonemic methodology of The Entire World of R™ had proven to be effective in their therapy. Over half (53%) had dismissed at least one /r/ disorder child from their caseload within 6 months. In rating how much their /r/ students had improved as a result of implementing phonemic /r/ remediation strategies, the mean grade of the SLPs was 8.22 (on a 10 point scale, 1=no improvement, 10=great improvement). Most persuasive is that all 24 SLPs that had used at least one Entire World of R™ product said they would recommend it to other SLPs.
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