Mirror My Sounds Phoneme Set

This is such a fun little activity. It's neat to see the preschoolers pull it off the shelf and work through the letters on their own! Great for one on one work too!

Where to even start! As a Kindergarten teacher I am all about fine motor/gross motor building, while still learning. Learning through PLAY! That is what HAND2MIND is all about and I could not be happier. I am a BIG fan and more then 50% of my classroom has hand2mind products. This product is one of the best thigs to come out in a while because the combination of cards with letters/image and the child can see their own month move it huge. From Sped students, Speech students, and ESL students this should be a go to tool in all types of classroom settings. From letter work, writing, reading, and of course math; I am seeing BIG learning jumps. My students just think they are playing but they are also taking on their own independent learning. I can go on and on about why every teacher should have hand2mind in their classroom. Especially the fine motor aspect because that's my bread and butter. I am so happy I found hand2mind and that every product is feeling needs of young learners through the power of play.

6 year old granddaughter has trouble pronouncing r’s, L’s and w’s plus th. The first session using the mirror she began copying the lip,teeth and tongue positions shown in the flip pages. It has been helpful to get her pronouncing words an letters properly.

I think the concept of this learning tool is perfect. You absolutely have to guide the child & help them, while working with it.

I love this thing! My little one would not look at my mouth to mimic sounds but he will look at this and he likes the mirror! It’s an amazing value and the size is so perfect for him and it’s potable! Buy this!

I’ve used this phoneme set as a speech therapist with infant- and toddler-aged children, and it’s been a great visual support. The mirrors help little ones become aware of mouth movements, and the cards make early sound play more engaging. It works well for one-on-one sessions and early speech and language development activities.

I think this had the potential to be an amazing tool. And I guess it still does, but as a LETRS trainer and a literacy coach I am not sure I can recommend this to teachers to use int heir classes. Pros: 1. The size is amazing. Kids have a great view of their own mouth and can compare that to the picture on the cards. 2. The pictures have a lot of diversity - white kids, black kids, and everything in between are represented. 3. The keyword pictures show the sound in the initial spot and in a middle or end spot (except for /ŋ/ which only shows the end). 4. The kickstand on the back makes it easy for kids to set down and work with independently. Cons: 1. Sounds are in alphabetical order. My opinion is that they should be in articulatory and manner order, as if you were going across the rows on a sound wall. This makes me think that they're still stuck in a print to speech approach instead of the reverse. 2. Hand 2 Mind lists the sounds based on how they are often spelled. "Digraphs" is the section where you'll find /ch/ and even /zh/ (even though the latter is not often spelled as a digraph). 3. I think they misunderstand what a diphthong is. I was most disappointed about this piece. Not only do they list sounds that aren't diphthongs as diphthongs but they define a diphthong incorrectly in the guide book ("two vowels can also glide together to make a new sound called a diphthong") 4. They list /ār/ and /ēr/ as phonemes which don't necessarily have an issue with but they leave out /ə/ and /wh/. Is it a terrible product? No. I think it has huge potential. I just thing they missed the mark a little bit. Hopefully they'll reevaluate and rerelease. Unfortunately, I think I'll be returning mine.

For some reason, almost all of my pediatric speech therapy patients enjoy using this "book" when we practice sounds. I think the kids like feeling that they are practicing sounds more independently, and I am not constantly telling them to look at my mouth so that they can see the correct positions of the tongue and lips. This is a useful item. It's sturdy enough, and the built-in mirror is quite handy.

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