The Cycles Therapy Approach for Children who are Very Hard to Understand
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What is the Cycles Phonology Therapy Approach and who is it for?
If you haven't tried the Cycles approach to phonological therapy yet, you are missing out. It's an amazing therapy method that is especially designed for children who are highly unintelligible and those who have multiple phonologic phonological processes or sound error patterns. So the idea is that you take all the speech skills that this child needs to work on and you cycle through targeting them each for one week or maybe two. two before moving on to the next one. And the result is that these children make faster progress on their whole and their whole speech system improves more quickly than if you were just targeting one sound at a time. I'm Carrie Clark and in this episode of the Speech and Language Kids podcast, I'm going to show you exactly how to use the Cycles approach in therapy and show you where you can download some pre-made materials to make it happen.
So welcome to the podcast. If you want any of the notes that I'm going to give you today, you can find those at speechandlanguage kids.com/slash cycles dash podcast. And we help I will have all of the notes of what I'm talking about today along with any of the links I share as well. So you'll have an easy way to access those. All right, so I wanna tell you kind of where this whole cycles approach packet kit uh course came from that I created. Uh so for those of you who don't know, this whole company of speech and language kids started with me sitting on the couch of the duplex that I shared with my then fiance, now husband, and just blogging about what I was doing in my therapy room. I would talk about what my kids were working on.
I was taught I would talk about how I would break down the skills that they were working on into these step-by-step plans. And at some point during one of those blogging sessions, I wrote very vaguely about the cycles approach just as a, hey, this is a thing that exists. Here's a little bit of information about it. And that was it. It was just one of my many blog posts. So fast forward years later, I now have a much bigger business and a much bigger website. And I was at one point looking at my analytics and trying to figure out what kinds of content to create, what kinds of courses to create. And I found that that Cycles Approach blog that I had created once upon a time had uh blown up and I was doing really well for it in terms of search results.
So if you type in the cycles approach to speech therapy, my website comes up pretty darn high on the rankings. And I thought, okay, cool, I'm gonna make some materials, I'm gonna make a course, a webinar on the cycles approach. Um, but the problem was I had Actually, I used the cycles approach very much, and so I wasn't intimately familiar with it. And I don't like to present anything that I don't really know well. So I started doing my research. I started reading about the the approach and looking at the actual research from Barbara Hodson. And uh one of the things that I came across in my research was a super duper handy handout. And so, you know, sometimes there's some good stuff on those super duper handouts.
So I opened that one up and I immediately scrolled to the bottom because that's what I do on those handouts is look at what the sources were because I like to use the original sources when I am creating courses and creating materials. So I looked to see who Super Duper had cited, and obviously they cited Barbara Hodson. Uh but one of their few sources that they
had was me. It was speech and language kids website. It was that very vague blog post that I had created years past. And that was I was being cited. And I first I thought, come on, super duper, you could do better than that. Uh but that's when I realized there really was this lack of information
out there on How do we actually make this happen? How do we break this down into an actual Therapy plan that people can follow. The research is great and it's amazing. And Barbara laid out this amazing program, but the actual how do I do it piece was missing. So I did what I do best and what I love doing, which was dive into that research, dive into the very technical uh writings on how to do this and translate that into something that you can actually just grab.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the Cycles Phonology Therapy Approach and who is it for?
0:01–4:18
2
How does Barbara Hodson define the Primary Set of phonological targets?
4:18–8:20
3
How do you plan and select stimuli for Round One of the Cycles Approach?
8:20–12:08
4
What are the step‑by‑step activities for each therapy session?
12:08–15:51
5
When and how do you move from the Primary Set to the Secondary Set?
15:51–20:06
6
How should clinicians handle children with mixed SSD or a Lisp within the Cycles framework?
20:06–24:02
7
What considerations are needed for hypernasal children using the Cycles Approach?
24:02–26:44
8
Where can listeners access the full Cycles course, materials kit, and additional support?
26:44–27:20