Guided Practice Script

Ok! For the /g/ sound we are going to start with the /k/ sound. Let me hear your /k/ sound. Good job! Did you know when you turn on your voice for the /k/ sound you make the /g/ sound? We know our voice is on when our throat vibrates as we say the sound. Let’s try it! I’m going to say the /k/ sound and then turn on my voice for the /g/ sound. Now your turn! I’m going to touch my hand to your throat to see if your voice is on and vibrating.

Targeted Techniques and Considerations

Eliciting Techniques

• Phonetic Placement → feeling vibration with hand
• Sound Approximation → slowly shapes the /k/ sound into a /g/ sound
• Demonstration → clinician demonstrates the sound first for client to follow

Common Errors

• Fronting can occur when the the /g/ sound is substituted with a /d/ or /t/ sound

Dialectical Differences

• Common for dialects like Southern American English speakers to drop the /g/ sound at the end of a word (ex: playin’)
• British English speakers can substitute the final /g/ sound for the /k/ sound