Speech and Language Support - Amber Caddy
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- Rockwood Area School District
- /r/ sound help
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Two ways to produce /r/
retroflexed /r/ which is the tongue tip curled up and back like a backward C
retracted/bunched /r/ which is the center of the tongue humped up like a mountain or cobra ready to bite
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Types of /r/
There are many types of /r/....initial as in (ready, read, real), vocalic as in (more, hear, far) and blends as is (tree, bright, crab).
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Two ways to say the /r/ -visual
Visual on the two ways to make the /r/
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Vocalic /r/ visual
Each vocalic /r/ has a slightly different tongue and lip position (EX: or, ar, ear, air, er)