Stella (6;3 years) is a monolingual English-speaking girl. She has an interdental lisp. She is in the pre-practice phase of intervention and is figuring out how to accurately produce /s/. You say to Stella, "I want you to make a long [t] sound". This cue is an example of:

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Shaping involves using a sound the client can already produce correctly (in this case, [t]) and gradually modifying it to approach the target sound (/s/). This technique leverages the similarity in tongue placement between [t] and /s/ to help Stella learn the correct production of /s/.

Stella (6;3 Years) Is a Monolingual English-Speaking Girl