After experimenting with many approaches to homework, I have found a 'key word' to be most successful. By the end of a session, one word usually stands out as the most successful production. I usually instruct the client and family to focus on this one word between sessions. I may ask the client to choose his or her favorite word from a group of words we targeted. I have found that focusing on one key word is most likely to actually be implemented by clients and families. It also encourages the concept of self-monitoring. It's very difficult to monitor production of target sounds in conversational speech, and pretty easy to monitor production of a specific word.
I'm sure there is an author who first coined the "key word approach," but I'm not certain of the original source. Ken Bleile has explained it in a variety of sources. He defined Key Word as "A word or a limited number of words in which a person successfully pronounces a phonological unit (Bleile, 2002)" and that's the way I've used it.
Bleile, Ken (2002). Evaluating articulation and phonological disorders when the clock is running. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, Vol. 11, 243-249.
A quick search also turned this up on my favorite website:
http://speech-language-therapy.com/kb/illustration-seven-pages.pdf (see page 4)
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