The Method for Getting the Mouth Ready to Say R Clearly

Create the stamina and coordination needed to

make the R sound, sound GOOD.

You watch YouTube videos on “How to say the R sound,” you download all sorts of worksheets with R words” but you wonder how it’s going to help when it seems like your child’s mouth just can’t DO what the videos say to do. Why is that? Why is R so hard??

Get a good foundation from home. The problem isn’t you – it’s that you need a resource that can help you get to the root of the problem. Getting the mouth ready to make sounds is a great foundation for progress.

Check out Mouth Movements for R, a video study that can help you build that foundation at home.

Does any of this sound like you?

❌ Difficulty saying the R sound?
R sounds like W, turning “red” into “wed.” It can make your child hard to understand and they might be a little frustrated or embarrassed.

❌ Trouble finding help? 

Searching for videos, books, downloads trying to get more support that you can use at home. Whether you have speech therapy or not, you might be on your own at home and the overwhelm is hard.

❌ Your child tries but the mouth just can’t do it? 

The mind is willing but the body is…. Weak? This can be where frustration hits for your child. If they try R flashcard after R flashcard and they are going nowhere fast, it can make it hard to want to practice at home.

❌ Your child is an open mouth breather, eater, or sleeper? 

Who knew this was big ole red flag for speech sound trouble? When the tongue lays down on the job all day, it can be hard for him to help out when we really need him…. R.

❌ You’ve been to speech therapy for R for a LONG time? 

You have a great SLP, but the weekly sessions just aren’t enough. You’d love to work in between therapy sessions using speech therapy techniques and you want to know how to fix what might be missing.

If yes, and you want something different - join me, and let’s talk about how to untangle R sounds and move on with more important things..

Hi there -
I’m Amanda and I'm a homeschool grad, mom of 4, and speech language pathologist.

I was told in school that the muscles of the mouth weren’t to blame when a child couldn’t say sounds clearly.

Yup. If a child had difficulty making the R sound (or any other sound for that matter) it was the brain’s full responsibility. The mouth didn’t have anything to do with it. But this didn’t click once I had my own 4 sweet babies and one after the other we had issues with nursing or speech sounds. And how embarrassing for me, a speech language pathologist that learned stellar techniques from cutting edge researchers for fixing sounds from the inside out (supporting that beautiful brain) and seeing killer progress with my clients… but I got absolutely stumped at home. And it wasn’t even that my kiddos didn’t want to do speech therapy with mom all the time. 

So… I did a deep dive. I started looking into why my own kiddos and a few of my sweet speech therapy families weren’t getting the results I was used to. A good friend and fellow speech language pathologist helped me out and started teaching me about the “black sheep” of the speech therapy world. And when I learned the details and saw the results of addressing the mouth muscles as key to speech sound progress, I felt so guilty I hadn’t known it’s worth before, for the kids that need it. There was some serious guilt when I ordered frenectomy consultations and started “mouth therapy” for my own kids, when I thought of all the moms I had told “tongue ties are an old wives tale” before I knew better

I knew I wanted to share this information with other moms.

I was starting to see resources and healthy dialogue about support for mouth movements in the speech therapy world, but there was so little available built for parents to use at home. It’s an expectation that everyone either has access to a provider OR their sweet speech language pathologist has the knowledge and TIME to share it. 

I couldn’t find a “help” like that. So I decided to create it.

For all the moms that are wondering why sounds are so hard and want to support their child at home too.

Introducing
Exercises for the R Sound

In this easy to digest video lesson, I unpack the exercises I use with my speech therapy clients to get them great mouth function. You can take the techniques and make them a simple part of your daily routine to build the foundation for speech sounds like R  to become clear.

Clear sounds from the ground up.

When you build a strong foundation, the rest of the building can be faster and easier. The whole house is sturdy and everything lines up!

Join me for “Exercises for R!” a bonus lesson from the R Clarity Roadmap

A simple video of exercises preparing the way for a clear R

Section One| Resting Mouth Position
Get ready to dive in! We'll talk like friends at a homeschool co-op about where the tongue is supposed to live, why that’s important, and how to get it where it needs to rest to be good at its jobs. 

What you’ll get: Quick Video Guide, 30 Day “RMP” Challenge Calendar, and a troubleshooting guide for when it isn’t working (and you might need to talk to your doc)

Section Two| Exercises for R

Get a friendly introduction to exercises to help you build clear sounds like R. This builds on the free workshop offered in my library and is built to be used just like an old workout DVD, press play and go!

What you’ll get: Quick Video Guide, 30 Day Exercise Challenge Calendar

Section Three| Snacking for Sounds

Build great mouth exercise into snacks and mealtimes, so its one less thing to do on busy days. These sneaky exercises become a way of life, so not even you  will know you are giving your mouth a workout 3x a day.

What you’ll get: Quick Video Guide, Eat Neat In A Week Guide (a great first start!)

Section Four| When to ask about ties

If R is a struggle, it could be that the tongue can’t reach where it needs to go. We will talk over red flags and warning signs of ties and how to approach your medical provider about your concerns with confidence.

What you’ll get: Quick Video Guide, Talking About Ties Guide

You walk away with a “press play and go” exercise program - made to be easy to use, fun for the family, and short enough to do every day so you can build a mouth ready for saying sounds clearly a little bit at a time.

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Limited Introductory Offer

Introductory Price $7

(want to check out the page for the whole R Clarity Roadmap Bundle? do that here!)