Flippin’ Funetics: Building Speech from the Ground Up presents a practical, movement-based framework for supporting children who have difficulty learning speech through observation and imitation alone. Participants will examine the foundational movements involved in early speech production, including lip closure and rounding, jaw grading, tongue movement, airflow, voicing, and resonance. The course demonstrates how clinicians can use a child’s existing movement and sound repertoire to identify an appropriate starting point and systematically build from individual sounds into simple syllable combinations. 

Using the Flippin’ Funetics system, participants will learn how visual and verbal instruction can be paired with tactile cues and therapeutic tools when additional motor support is needed. Particular emphasis is placed on using the least amount of support necessary, systematically fading tools and physical cues, and moving the child toward learning through watching, listening, and imitation. Participants will leave with a clinically applicable process for observing movement, identifying existing strengths, selecting initial speech targets, providing appropriate cueing, and progressively building speech movement complexity.

Participants will be able to:

1. Identify at least three observable speech movement characteristics—including lip, jaw, tongue, airflow, voicing, and resonance patterns—to determine potential starting points for speech intervention. 
2. Select appropriate early sound and CV syllable targets based on a child’s existing speech movements and productions and the motor demands required for the target. 
3. Demonstrate a systematic cueing progression that incorporates visual and verbal instruction with tactile or tool-based support as needed and describe how to fade physical supports toward more independent speech production. 

Instructor Details and Financial Disclosure 

• Renee Hill MS, CCC/SLP

Registration

• Online ONLY for 1 learner -- Access to Online Course for 365 Days/1 Year (-hour CE course, downloadable handout, certificate of completion)

  Timed Agenda

• 0:00–0:10 — Introduction & Overview | 10 minutes
• 0:10–0:25 — Module 1: Why We Start From the Ground Up | 15 minutes
• 0:25–0:40 — Module 2: The Developmental Logic of Flippin’ Funetics | 15 minutes
• 0:40–0:50 — Module 3: Why Sounds Come Before Words | 10 minutes
• 0:50–1:05 — Module 4: Inside Flippin’ Funetics | 15 minutes
• 1:05–1:20 — Module 5: Using Tools to Shape Movement | 15 minutes
• 1:20–1:35 — Module 6: Teaching the Child to Look, Listen, and Copy | 15 minutes
• 1:35–1:50 — Module 7: Putting It Into Therapy Tomorrow | 15 minutes
• 1:50–2:00 — Summary & Questions | 10 minutes 
  TOTAL: 120 minutes
   

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To receive a Certificate of Completion learners must: attend the entirety of the course; complete the course quiz with a passing score of 80% accuracy or higher and complete the course completion survey. Learners must request to be reported to ASHA CE.
 

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