/r/intensive

rIntensive is one of Smarty Ears’ articulation apps. rIntensive SLP was developed as a result of “intensive” requests made by our Speech Therapists. Smarty Ears is aware of the high incidence of students seen for their difficulties with /r/. We hope that rIntensive SLP becomes a tool that will help your accuracy levels in teaching the production of the English /r/. With over 450 target words /r/ intensive is the best tool for practicing this “interesting” phoneme.

rIntensive uses a phonetic approach to teaching the “r” sound by creating subgroups that will hopefully make your student more successful in therapy. We have divided the /r/ phoneme at he word level as follows:

1. a.Pre-Vocalic /r/
2. b./r/ Clusters
3. c./rl/
4. d./Ir/
5. e./ajər/
6. f./ar/
7. g./er/
8. h./or/
9. i./ər/

rIntensive SLP has also added two very useful functions:

1.The “Probes” option. Here you may choose to probe your students and attempt to identify the specific “environment” that you must work on. For example: Your student may only have difficulty with /r/ in clusters and /rl/ but have a good production when the /r/ is in all other phonetic environments.

2.Phrase level. Here we have created a possibility of practicing the /r/ at the phrase level. You may choose to practice the phrase level in conjunction with “word level” or after the student has mastered the “ word level”.

rIntensive is the only tool in the market that allows you to not only practice the production of the /r/ phoneme but also tally the percentage of accuracy at the same time with the same tool: your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.