This student had some errors with pausing; he would often delete pauses, making his sentences sound very run-on. There were also some stress errors, as with “I will read the SEED a story” where stress should be on “story”. He tends to delete consonants at the end of the a word, as in numbers 2-5 below and otherwise is inconsistent in his pronunciation of many vowels, examples of which are listed below. Continued frequent practice will help his differentiate between these vowels.
1. Body – berdy
2. Toad – d-deleted
3. Alone – n-deleted
4. Whole – L-deleted
5. Seed – d-deleted (once)
6. Window – sounds like weendow
7. All – or
8. Story – starry
9. Poems - poins
10. Plant –pin
11. Shouting – showting
12. Very – wary
13. Start to growing