Isolated Sound Recognition

We want to familiarize children with speech sounds in isolation before beginning sounds within words. The child needs a teacher, parent, and/or adult to provide them with a concept of speech sounds by associating phonemes with a creature, an action, or an object that is familiar to him/her. For instance, the phoneme/s/ could be associated with the hissing sound of a snake - ssssssss. It might be helpful to create a sound personality by calling /s/s the Skinny Snake, Suzy Snake, or Sammy Snake, etc. Many sounds already have a sound associated with it like a crowing rooster for /r/, a buzzing bee for /z/, the be quiet sound for /sh/. These sound personalities can be pulled out of daily, natural settings.