OPT-S Card Set

By: Robyn Merkel-Walsh, MA, CCC-SLP and Sara Rosenfeld-Johnson, MS, CCC-SLP

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TalkTools® original Oral Placement to Speech Kit (OPT-S) is an innovative articulation program designed to translate muscle movements into speech sound production. This program was designed specifically for children and adults with muscle-based speech disorders such as low tone, Orofacial Myofunctional Disorder, and/or dysarthria. It is uniquely based on jaw transitions and the complexity of articulatory place shifts within words.

The 185-card set is divided into easy, moderate, and difficult words based on jaw transitions. Included are the early developing phonemes m-b-p (bilabials), t-d-n (tongue retraction with tip elevation), k-g-h (velars), and w (lip rounding). The sounds are combined with an array of vowels in CV and CVC combinations.

Note: For children ages 2-6 with apraxia, use OPT-S and the Kaufman K-SLP Treatment Kit 1 together.

"I like the poop picture Miss Robyn." — 4-year-old patient with hypotonia