Hypernasality Speech Therapy: Treatment Activities
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What is hypernasality and why does it matter for speech therapy?
Hey everybody, it's Carrie Clark, and you are listening to episode number 61 of the Speech and Language Kids Podcast. This is the podcast with resources and activities for children with speech and language delays and disorders. Resources for speech therapists, parents, other educators, anyone who is really working with this population and looking for some uh help and some advice. So today we are talking about hypernasality. This is, in case you're not aware, this is craniofacial anomalies awareness month. Uh that is basically talking about things that go wrong with the development of the face and the mouth. Uh so we're talking about things like cleft palate, cleft lip. There's all kinds of other disorders.
Um, and a lot of times if there's something wrong with the palate or the roof of the mouth, we'll get some problems with hypernasality, which is basically where there's just too much resonance up in the nose and not enough in the mouth, and so the child sounds very nasally. So that's what we're talking about today is hypernasality and how you can treat that in speech. But before we get there, I do want to mention one quick resource for you, and that is my all-in-one articulation materials, uh, my articulation program and materials kit. Uh, we're gonna talk today about working on sounds with hypernasality, and really when you're working with a kiddo to increase their intelligibility or improve those speech sounds, we're gonna be using an articulation approach.
So that's the basic approach that you're gonna be using to fix those sounds with some slight modifications and tweaks for working on the nasality issues. So I want to make sure that you have the resources to work on articulation if that's something that you're doing.
How can I get the articulation kit and other resources for treating hypernasality?
And I have an ebook that you can purchase that is basically everything you need to do our articulation therapy. So it's gonna have worksheets, it's gonna have step-by-step guides that walk you through the whole process, it's going to have flashcards for every speech sound, so you can just print out whichever ones you need. Uh it has activities, it's got all kinds of stuff in there. It also has a screener so you can figure out which sounds the child is having trouble with. So uh that's definitely a good resource for you. Like I said, it's a digital download. So you download the product and then you just print off whatever pages you want and then you can cut those out or laminate them, whatever it is that you want to do to use them in therapy or at home with a kiddo.
So You can get that if you go to speechandlanguage kids dot com slash artic kit. That's A-R-T-I-C K I T, but no spaces or dashes or anything, just speechandlanguage kids dot com slash artic kit. Okay, so that's my good resource for you today, but let's jump on into our information about hypernasality. Okay, so I wanna just kind of give you a a disclaimer here at the beginning of this episode and tell you that I am not an expert in hypernasality.
In fact, just uh just today, uh with recording this episode. Uh earlier today I had an email
from somebody that the the basic gist of the email was, who are you to think that you can tell other speech therapists what to do? You're no speech therapy expert.
Why should I refer a child with hypernasality to an ENT or cleft palate team first?
Which you know what? You're right, I'm not. But that is not what I have built my business around being. I am not building this website as a speech therapy guru. I am building this website as somebody who has the ability to take very difficult and complex concepts and break them down into pieces that are manageable and easy for you to use. So Hypernasality, not what not what I would consider in my wheelhouse. This is not something that I have worked a ton with, um, but it is something that I have done a lot of research on. So here's my Um, I guess my my superpower, if you will, is I know that speech therapists out there and parents, you don't have time to sit there and dig through all the research, figure out what the current literature says, figure out what the best practices are, and then figure out how to put that into practice.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is hypernasality and why does it matter for speech therapy?
0:00–1:43
2
How can I get the articulation kit and other resources for treating hypernasality?
1:43–3:10
3
Why should I refer a child with hypernasality to an ENT or cleft palate team first?
3:10–4:40
4
What are the key assessment steps to determine if hypernasality is functional or structural?
4:40–5:53
5
Which therapy techniques are most effective for reducing nasal resonance?
5:53–7:26
6
How do I use tongue‑position, mouth‑opening, and volume changes to improve oral resonance?
7:26–8:44
7
What is auditory feedback and biofeedback, and how can I set them up cheaply?
8:44–10:13
8
When should I stop hypernasality therapy and consider re‑evaluation?
10:13–30:40