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( Hard "T" sound , can sound like "d" sound, depending on how you say it)

Initial T by Syllables

teacher's aide

tennis ball

tennis court

tennis shoes

table tennis

tape recorder

telephone book

telephone booth

telephone pole

temperature

technicality

tuberculosis

Medial T by Syllables

bike safety

bus saftety

cottage cheese

baby sitter

beauty salon

boating safety

peanut butter

potato chips

thermometer

United States

walking safety

water safety

denominator

deteriorate

hippopotamus

hot water bottle

hot water heater

potato salad

refrigerator

saltwater taffy

Final T by Syllables

cookie sheet

cowboy boot

parking lot

roller skate

Easter basket

refrigerate

shopping basket

supermarket

unfortunate

Initial T Phrases and Sentences

dining table

crunchy taco

tall building

classroom teacher

soccer team

pretty teeth

soft tissue

green toothpaste

scary tornado

flour tortilla

male turkey

They had dinner at the table.

He wants 3 tacos.

That building is so tall.

She is our 5th grade teacher.

The team has their first game today.

She has very white teeth.

Tennis is her favorite sport.

We saw a tiger at the zoo.

He is tired from working hard.

Blow your nose with a tissue.

Stick your tongue out and say "ahhh".

Using toothpaste will keep your teeth clean.

The tornado destroyed many homes.

Will you use a corn or flour tortilla?

The baby snuggled in his towel.

Hop in the tub before bed time.

A turkey sounds funny when it gobbles.

My address is two Bower Street.

Medial T Phrases and Sentences

shrimp and butter

round button

solar calculator

fast cheetah

library computer

wonderful daughter

eighteen years old

elevator door

play guitar

big hospital

green lettuce

full potato

Saturday morning

red sweater

basket of vegetables

He made the seat out of a log.

I dip my shrimp in butter.

I sewed my button onto the shirt.

He used his calculator in class.

A cheetah can run as fast as a car.

There was a computer for everyone.

The daughter loves her mother.

She was happy when she turned eighteen.

The elevator was going up.

Can I play your guitar?

We are going to the hospital tonight.

The farmer grows lettuce.

My baked potato smells good.

The game is on Saturday morning.

She will buy the red sweater.

Cut up one tomato and add it to the stew.

He picked the vegetables from his garden.

Cold water is refreshing on a hot day.

Final T Phrases and Sentences

hanging bat

fishing boat

Battery flashlight

rain jacket

hanging light

talking parrot

peanut shell

white pocket

cute rabbit

write it down

The bat hung upside down in the tree.

They went out on the boat for a day of fishing.

The cat was going to sneak away.

The coat is for sale.

The flashlight lit up the room.

They had their choice of fruit.

The baby goat stayed by it's mom.

She left her hat in the barn.

She wore a rain jacket in case it rained.

The kite flew high.

Turn the light on please.

How does a parrot talk?

He took off the peanut shell.

He has nothing in his pocket.

Be quiet so we don't wake her up.

I see a rabbit in the grass.

She would sit and wait every day for the bus.

She writes in her journal every week.

T Reading Paragraphs

Terry's taco house.

Growing up in Texas can be hot in the summertime. Our family likes to get milkshakes to cool off. Tonight our family is going to get Texas toast, tacos, and milkshake's at "Terry's Taco House".

My dad came home from work last night and said he was craving a taco from Terry's. It is the most terrific taco place in town.

Everyone will get a taco except for my sister Tia, she will probably get a hamburger. Don't get me wrong, Terry's makes good hamburgers, but their tacos taste much better in my opinion. Tia just isn't a big taco fan.

Most of the time she would rather find an exit than eat a taco. But when she wants a taco, she gets really excited about it. She is like my dad. Dad doesn't want to eat tacos very often. But when he does, move out of his way because he will run faster than a cheetah to get a taco.

When we go to Terry's tonight, I will find us a table by the window. Terry's restaurant sits right next to a busy street and I like to watch different things that happen while we eat our tacos. I've watched people change their car tires, drive with towels on top of their car, and find a turtle in the grass.

I always look forward to being together with my family and eating at Terry's. It is fun.

Teaching Dreams

When I get older I want to be a teacher. It has to be the coolest job in the world. The trouble is that I want to teach every subject. There are so many things to teach about and I don't think schools will let teachers teach about everything.

So far my list of things I want to teach about include: Jupiter and planets, writing fairy tales, growing potatoes and tomatoes, playing tennis, boat safety, and working in a hospital. Last week our class learned about alligators - this made me want to teach about animals. Then this week, I have learned about tools and building and that makes me want to teach about construction.

My mom also asked me if I would like to learn to play the guitar a few days ago.

"Of course I do. I want to learn everything so I can teach anything," I said. I tell my parents about how cool teaching is all the time. They won't tell me, but I think they get tired hearing about all of the different things I want to teach about.

They tell me I should definitely become a teacher if I love it so much. My plan is to teach high school classes in six different subject areas. I am starting to prepare now by learning as much as I can. I read a ton. I do a lot of interviewing too. Asking people what they do has taught me so much about things I can teach.

Teacher Trouble

We had my teacher over for dinner on Saturday night. My mom said it was because we needed to make her our friend. But it was quite the disaster. Not quite as frightening as a tornado, but pretty close.

I took her coat and hat at the door and timidly showed her into the dining room to meet my dad, Tom. He stood up so quickly that he knocked his calculator and notebook off his lap and onto the carpet. He shook her hand and said, "Well now aren't you as pretty as a parrot. I'm sure my son is as bad as two - no ten, tigers in your classroom." And at that, I started choking on the peanuts I had taken from my pocket and stuffed in my mouth so I wouldn't have to talk.

I ran to the bathroom as quick as a cheetah and spit the peanuts into the tub. I was trying to wash them down with water, but I was still choking. There were tears in my eyes and my tummy started to turn. I turned around and spit the rest of the peanuts into the toilet. I quickly used some toothpaste to brush up and a tissue to wipe my face. I returned to the dining room and took my seat. Then the rest of the disaster happened.

My mom served tortillas filled with turkey, potatoes, lettuce, and butter. My teacher ate them with her tongue half-way out. I don't think she liked them. And for dessert we had what my mom calls, fruit tacos - fruit in a hard tortilla shell topped with tangerine syrup and fried in butter. They were actually pretty good. But on the last bite, my teacher turned green, swayed a little and fell on the floor.

We called the hospital and they came and got her. I took her coat and hat and laid them on top of her as they wheeled her out on a stretcher. I did not want anything left behind to remember this awful night when we had my teacher over for dinner.

This list of functional words was professionally selected to be the most useful for a child or adult who has difficulty with producing the "T" sound.

We encourage you to use this list when practicing at home.

Doing home practice will help your child make much faster progress toward correct production.

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Every day that your child goes without practice it becomes more and more difficult to correct an "T" error because he/she continues to say it incorrectly.

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If your child is having trouble saying T, you have come to the right place! If you are a speech therapist and you need some T speech therapy materials, hopefully, our T word list can help you!

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How To Say T

To say “T,” put the tip of your tongue behind your teeth. This spot is called the alveolar ridge or the “bumpy” spot.

Tell your child to put his/her tongue behind his/her teeth.
The concept of “behind” can be tricky to grasp. If so, try to put peanut butter or yogurt on the “bumpy spot” to have him/her feel where his/her tongue should go.

Articulation Games For T

T is an earlier developing sound. Therefore, the games listed below are for younger children. Tweak them to meet the needs of your child. Take turns with your child saying the desired words. It is important to practice hearing and saying the sound.

Toad - Say “toad” as you make a toad jump
Tag - Play tag and say “tag” as you touch someone
Tub - During bath, put toys in the bathtub and say “tub” as you drop them in
Table - Say “table” as you place any object on the table
Water - Say “water” as you water all the plants in the house
Little - Find all the little toys in a toy box and say “little”Eating - During a meal, say “eating” after taking a bite
Eat - During a meal, say “eat” before each bite
Hat - Say “hat” as you put on a hat
Shirt - Say “shirt” every time you fold a shirt while doing laundry

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The “t” sound is an unvoiced alveolar plosive, which means that it is produced by briefly stopping the airflow from the lungs using the tip of the tongue (alveolar) and then releasing it in a sudden burst (plosive). Unlike the “d” sound, the vocal cords do not vibrate during the production of this sound.

To produce the “t” sound, you need to place the tip of your tongue against the alveolar ridge, which is the bony ridge behind your upper front teeth, and then release it while simultaneously pushing air out of your lungs. This creates a sudden burst of sound that is characterized by a brief, sharp, and aspirated noise. You can try producing this sound by saying the word “top” or “hat” and paying attention to the way your tongue and breath work together to create the sound. In phonetics, this sound is represented by the symbol /t/. It is also sometimes referred to as the “voiceless alveolar plosive.

Here are few tips you can follow to teach the “t” sound:

Demonstrate the sound: Start by demonstrating the “T” sound for your child. Make the sound and have your child watch your lips and mouth movements. Explain that the sound is made by placing the tip of the tongue behind the top front teeth and releasing it with a burst of air.

Visual Cue: Show the child how to place the tip of their tongue behind their top teeth, close their lips, and then release the air with a brief burst of sound. You can also use a mirror to help the child see how their tongue and lips are positioned. You can also use a visual cue such as a picture or flashcard of a “T” to help your child remember the sound.

Understand the sound: Help your child understand that the “T” sound is an unvoiced consonant made by placing the tip of the tongue behind the top front teeth and releasing it with a burst of air.

Practice Blowing: Help your child get used to the sensation of releasing air with their tongue by having them practice blowing out candles, blowing bubbles, or blowing feathers across a table.

Practice Tongue Placement: Show your child how to keep their tongue flat and relaxed while making the “T” sound. You can make it more fun by having them imitate animal sounds, such as a hissing snake or a tapping woodpecker, while using the “T” sound.

Practice in Isolation : Once your child has mastered the correct tongue and mouth position, have them practice making the “T” sound on its own without any other sounds.

Add Syllables: After your child has mastered the “T” sound in isolation, have them practice using it in different syllables, such as “ta,” “te,” and “to.” You can make it more fun by having them say words like “tiger,” “turtle,” and “taco.”

Practice in Words: Once your child has mastered the “T” sound in syllables, have them practice using it in different words such as “top,” “ten,” and “table.”

Practice in Phrases: After your child has mastered the “T” sound in words, have them practice using it in phrases like “big top,” “my ten,” and “time to eat.”

Practice in Sentences: Finally, have your child practice using the “T” sound in different sentences such as “I have a toy,” “The cat sat on the mat,” and “The kite is in the tree.”

Practice Everywhere: Encourage your child to practice using the “T” sound in different contexts, such as during playtime, mealtime, or while reading books. You can also make it more fun by having them use the “T” sound in different accents or dialects.

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Free virtual and printable words lists for practicing artic words in speech therapy!

If you are in need of no-prep, virtual, or printable free speech therapy materials, we hope you enjoy our free slp word list materials each sound and phonological process has free materials and activities to target sounds at the initial, medial, and final positions. our materials also target sounds in isolation, word, phrase, sentence, story,, and tongue twister levels in our reading passage exercises, target sounds are in a different color., privacy overview.

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Resource library, how to pick vocabulary words for speech therapy.

How to Pick Vocabulary Words: What words?! Whenever I had a student who needed to work on vocabulary My mind started racing, ‘What words do I pick?’ ‘What are the right words to use? ‘. When writing a goal we need to know what we are tracking. You cannot simply write with ‘classroom vocabulary’, that ain’t gonna fly if your case brought to due process.

You must have a list of the words you are going to target and track progress.

Now, there are lots of resources out there. I have read books like Bridge to Vocabulary , Bringing Words to Life , Building Academic Vocabulary , and Teaching Vocabulary and found them so valuable. These have been wonderful resources and I highly encourage you to check them out. A common theme across them all is to make the vocabulary meaningful for the child.

Explain why these words are so important,

point them out in daily living, show their actual application! Choosing the words to target when it comes to working on vocabulary doesn’t have to be an ordeal either. One of the best and most practical places to find words is to look at their academic worksheets, read the directions, and focus on the verbs. Words like arranging, summarize, incorporate, detail, etc will pop up left and right.

These are examples of tier 2, functional vocabulary words. I do not assume that the students know these words despite having been surrounded for years. So, if you’re stumped on what words to choose, start here.

“Failure to understand instructional verbs and thus what a teacher or textbook is asking of a child has the potential of creating a rift in the child’s engagement with the learning process.” Lowman et al., 2018

Now, one of the most common questions after hearing this, ‘What verbs are the best to target then?’. So here is a list of instructional verbs, common for Kindergarten to 5th grade. Please keep in mind there are soooo many words available that our students are exposed to everyday, but if you need a jumping off point, then take a look at the list below.

I have also used these Vocabulary Kits with a lot of success too. I simply pick a word set and that is our focus for the year. The are research based so the vocabulary chosen aligns with the same academic practicality we need. This also includes scaffolded materials as well as a pretest/post-test. You can read more about this my Teaching Vocabulary in Speech Therapy post.

So when it comes to vocabulary, don’t stress. Words your kids need surround them all you have to do is to find the best fit for them.

Lowman, J., Stone, L. T., & Guo, J. (2018). Effects of interactive book reading for increasing children’s knowledge of instructional verbs. Communication Disorders Quarterly , 1-13. doi:10.1177/1525740117745639 .

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TH Words for Speech Therapy (Word Lists and Activities)

Need th word lists for speech therapy? Speech pathologists looking for a quick list of initial th words and final th target words to practice during speech therapy, make sure to bookmark this post. You’ll also find some great ideas for making therapy more fun with a variety of engaging games, articulation worksheets, and speech therapy activities to help a child practice the th sound. Not only does this blog post provide a list of initial and final th words, but it also suggests a variety of strategies for teaching correct placement. SLPs will be able to have a list of words on hand to easily use in the therapy room.

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Correct Production of TH

The th sound is made by sticking the tongue between the upper front teeth and the bottom front teeth and blowing air. The tongue tip is just visible while making this sound. Alternatively, the tongue tip might approach the inner surface of the upper front teeth.

The th sound can be voiceless (as in think) or voiced (as in them). Voiced sounds involve the vocal cords vibrating.

The th sound is a later developing sound. Articulation therapy can assist with correct tongue placement while producing the voiceless th or voiced th sound.

TH words speech therapy lists and articulation activities

Common TH Sound Errors

Sometimes, the voiceless th sound is substituted with s (sink vs think), t (tink vs think), and f (fink vs think).

The voiced th sound might be substituted with z, d, or v.

A student with an articulation disorder may have difficulty with the th’ sound. An articulation disorder can impact a child’s speech intelligibility. However, speech pathologists must be careful to determine a speech and language difference versus a disorder . It is important to note that dialectal features are not considered articulation errors (or speech errors). This is especially important to consider during the evaluation process. Learn more from this article (reference: American Speech Language Hearing Association).

References: Bauman-Waengler, J.A. Articulatory and Phonological Impairments: A Clinical Focus . Third ed., Pearson Education Limited, 2013.

How To Teach the TH Sound in Speech Therapy

There are several ways to try to teach the th sound in speech therapy.

Speech pathologists can try using auditory bombardment. This would allow the child to hear the target sound over and over again. Word lists are provided in this article.

Give this sound a new name. For older students, you might call it “your tongue sound”, to remind them of proper tongue placement.

Provide visual cues. Touching the throat can be a reminder of the voicing for a voiced th. Tapping near your lips or bottom teeth can remind the student of where the tip of your tongue needs to protrude.

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Get in front of the mirror! Use a mirror to see if the student can fog it up while they blow air during the production of this sound.

Use your hand flattened out as a representation of the tongue, then push it forward to represent continuous airflow.

A speech-language pathologist might introduce minimal pairs to help the child see and hear the difference between the th sound and the speech sound substitution.

Provide accurate feedback. “I heard the /t/ sound instead of your tongue sound.”

Speech Sounds- Word Lists for the TH Sound

The following word lists contain words with the initial th sound, medial th sound, and final th sound. These articulation word lists allow the speech therapist to easily work on a target sound and speech goals in speech therapy at the word level. Or, have your student think of an extra word or two to create short phrases for practice. Quickly pull these word lists up during your speech therapy session and pair them with the game or activity of your choice. These word lists provide less complex syllable shapes to more complex multisyllabic words.

TH Word Lists for Speech Therapy

Initial voiceless th words.

Here is a list of voiceless th words in the initial position to use in speech therapy (initial position of the th sound):

thoughtless
thirty-three

Medial Voiceless TH Words

Here is a list of voiceless th in the medial position of words to use in speech therapy (th in the medial position of a word):

mouth guard
stethoscope
5:30 (five-thirty)

Final Voiceless TH Word List

Here is a list of voiceless th in the final position of words to use in speech therapy (th in the final position of a word):

bubble bath

Initial Voiced TH Word List

Here is a list of voiced th words in the initial position to use in speech therapy (initial position of the th sound):

Medial Voiced TH Words

Here is a list of voiced th in the medial position of words to use in speech therapy (th in the medial position of a word):

Final Voiced TH Words

Here is a list of voiced th in the final position of words to use in speech therapy (th in the final position of a word):

Speech Therapy Activities for the TH Sound

Speech therapists often need interactive resources, articulation activities, or a fun game to work on these difficult sounds! Here are my top articulation activities to teach TH sound acquisition. These activities provide a great way to motivate your students who have speech sound disorders!

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TH Articulation Picture Cards for Speech Therapy

Easily remind your student to keep the tip of the tongue between the teeth while producing the TH sound! These articulation cards are incredibly effective because they provide a speech sound mouth placement visual cue . They are also easy to send home for at-home practice. Family members can easily review the articulation th words as a carryover activity to work on their child’s speech. These new words are practical and a great way to get started with targeting the voiced or voiceless th sound in initial, medial, and final word positions.

To assemble, print out the cards , cut them out, laminate them, and attach them using a binder ring. And as a bonus, they make fantastic speech room decor! Alyssa, SLP, reviewed, “These were not only great word lists, but also great visuals. Love that I can prep them once and hang them in my room for everyday use. Thank you!”

Voiceless TH Card Game

Do your students love playing cards in speech therapy? This card game companion is quickly going to become a hit in your speech therapy room! My students kept asking over and over to play the popular, color-coded card game. Then it hit me: I could use the colors and symbols on the cards. So now, before my student puts down a blue card during his turn, he must say the th articulation word that is listed under the blue section. If he draws a yellow card, he must say the th articulation word that is assigned to that target color. It’s fast, easy, and motivating! This activity targets initial voiceless th, medial voiceless th, and final voiceless th. Please note: The Pedi Speechie is in no way associated with the well-known card game, which is trademarked.

Playdough Articulation Activity

Sick of boring articulation drill? Why not have FUN and do a “ speech therapy manicure “? This unique activity is going to absolutely become a favorite in your speech therapy room. You’ll need some play dough colors, of course. The play dough will represent the nail polish. Next, you’ll need to pick out which target sound you’d like to address during that session. The following sounds are included in this resource: p, t, d, k, g, s blends, s, f, sh, ch, r, r blends, l, l blends, voiceless th, voiced th, z, vocalic r, and more!

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Meghan L., SLP, reported, “I LOVE this resource , and so do my students! It is such a fun way to target goals, and I appreciate its function as a digital activity, printable activity, or laminated activity. Cannot recommend this resource enough!”

Articulation Tic Tac Toe

Need to work on voiced or voiceless th sounds in single words? Try these articulation tic tac toe worksheets ! They can be paired with bingo daubers or a magnetic wand and chips ! These articulation worksheets are no prep and low ink. They cover a variety of speech sounds, including some of the hardest sounds, like th, vocalic r, s, z, ch, and j. Simply choose the articulation speech sound that will be addressed during the speech therapy session. Print out the corresponding page. Say a target word while playing a game of tic tac toe! With each new word, your student will place a chip on the page or daub the circle. This game provides simple and fun ways to practice the th sound in speech therapy!

Fun Articulation Games

Here are a few games that I like to pair with my articulation worksheets and articulation cards! These games can be used for a variety of skills. I have my students practice saying a target word, then they get to take a turn at the game.

Pop Up Pirate (for younger students)
Don’t Break the Ice
Connect Four

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135+ Voiced TH Words Speech Therapy (Free Word Lists)

Voiced th words speech therapy.

Are you a speech therapist or parent looking for voiced TH words to practice with your child or student? Then this blog is just what you need! It has over 135 voiced TH words for speech therapy that will help strengthen your child or student’s /th/ sound.

In the world of speech therapy, mastering the “th” sound is important for clear and effective communication. As speech therapists, we know that the “th” sound is particularly essential, since it appears frequently in every day conversations, and is also one of the most common mispronounced sounds.

By understanding and focusing on voiced “th” words in speech therapy sessions, we as speech-language pathologists (SLPs) and our clients can work together to improve speech clarity and overall language development.

Voiced “th” sounds are created when the vocal cords vibrate and the air is pushed through the small space between the teeth and tongue.

This unique sound can be tricky for some individuals, particularly young children and non-native English speakers who may not have been exposed to it early in life.

This blog is just what you need when working on the pronunciation and articulation of voiced TH words! We will cover various techniques that can be employed in your speech therapy session to help clients develop and strengthen their pronunciation of voiced “th” words.

Key Takeaways

Speech therapy aims to improve the pronunciation of voiced “th” words to enhance communication.
Voiced “th” sounds are key components of everyday conversations, making early intervention crucial.
Various teaching methods and different resource types can be employed to differentiate between voiced and voiceless “th” sounds.
There are additional resources listed in this post that can be used as helpful resources when working on the voiced “th” sounds in speech therapy.

Understanding Voiced Th Sounds

As a speech therapist, I found that one of the common challenges is understanding and mastering the voiced “th” sound. It seemed to be one of the most common mispronounced sounds in the past within my caseload.

To cover the basics – the voiced “th” sounds occur when the vocal cords vibrate during the production of the sound. This is in contrast to voiceless “th” sounds, which do not involve vocal cord vibration.

To begin, it’s crucial to know that an articulation disorder occurs when a person has difficulty producing speech sounds correctly. This can happen for various reasons, including structural abnormalities in the oral cavity, weak oral muscles, or delayed motor speech development. For voiced “th” sounds, the focus is primarily on the correct tongue placement and vocal cord vibration.

Correct Production

Tongue Placement: To produce a clear voiced “th” sound, have your student or child place the tip of their tongue between the upper and bottom teeth.
Airflow: The tongue should rest gently against the teeth, allowing for free airflow.
Vocal Cords: As the vocal cords vibrate, a continuous voiced sound should be produced.
Tip: During this process, they should feel a slight vibration in their throat, indicating that the vocal cords are engaged appropriately.

As I worked with clients, one technique I found helpful was practicing voiced “th” in various positions.

This post will give you over 135 words, phrases and sentences in initial, medial and final positions to practice. I suggest starting with simple words and gradually progressing to more complex phrases and sentences.

Additionally, reading books aloud that contain voiced “th” sounds can provide valuable practice and help increase awareness of how “th” sounds in everyday speech and conversations.

The Importance of Early Intervention

As speech therapists and speech-language pathologists, we understand the crucial role early intervention plays in helping children overcome speech difficulties, especially with voiced “th” sounds.

One of the main reasons is that early intervention allows us to address speech and language delays during the critical period of a child’s development. Research consistently demonstrates that early intervention can significantly improve outcomes in communication skills, social interactions, and academic success.

Working in Early Intervention

When working with children who have a hard time pronouncing voiced “th” sounds, our goal as speech therapists should be to provide specialized techniques and activities tailored to our child’s needs.

This will help them improve their speech and gain confidence in their ability to communicate. Early intervention helps us identify and address these issues as soon as possible, giving the child the best chance for success in their speech development.

Working with Families

Collaborating with family members is an essential aspect of early intervention programs for voiced “th” sounds in speech therapy. I loved working closely with parents and caregivers to create a supportive and nurturing environment that encouraged the child to practice their newfound skills.

Creating strong communication between the family and other teams such as occupational therapy, physical therapy, a special education teacher or general ed teacher will help reinforce the therapy techniques applied during sessions in many different ways and allows the child to progress more quickly.

In conclusion, early intervention is always important when working on different sounds, but especially voiced “th” sounds in speech therapy.

Methods for Teaching Voiced ‘Th’ Words

Mouth Position

The first step in teaching voiced ‘th’ words is to ensure the proper mouth position.

To avoid speech errors, start by helping the child:

Tongue: place their tongue between the upper and lower front teeth while making the voiced th sound.
Tongue Tip: The tongue tip should be just visible or approach the inner surface of the upper front teeth.
Tip: I always reminded my students that the difference between voiceless and voiced th is the vibration they feel in their vocal cords.

Word lists are a valuable tool when teaching voiced ‘th’ words, and so I have created a list of 135 ‘th’ words at the word, phrase and sentence level.

You can also encourage your student or child to go through this list of words and practice reading or repeating the words aloud, while focusing on the correct pronunciation of the “th” sound.

Fun Activities

Playing games and using activities in our speech therapy sessions is a great way to engage children and make learning fun.

Below in this post, we have curated a list of fun and free resources to use with your students and child to practice the target sound “th” in different ways!

We have resource types for home practice, early intervention, older students, independent work etc.

Differentiating Between Voiced and Voiceless ‘Th’ Sounds

As a speech-language pathologist, I learned quickly how important it is to understand the different speech sounds between voiced and voiceless “th”.

The different sounds can create some confusion, but our students will be able to master their target sound and improve their speech and pronunciation with the guidance from our speech therapy sessions.

Voiced ‘th’ sounds occur when the voice box is turned on during pronunciation.

They often appear in function words, such as “this,” “that,” “then,” and “there.”

Voiceless TH

In contrast, voiceless ‘th’ sounds happen when your voice box is turned off.

One way to differentiate between these sounds is by placing your fingers gently on your throat while pronouncing various ‘th’ words. You’ll feel vibrations in your throat while producing the voiced ‘th’ sound and no vibrations for the voiceless ‘th’ sound.

Voiced vs Voiceless TH

The only difference between these two sounds is the use of vocal cords.

In both cases, you must place your tongue slightly between your teeth and blow air. To better understand the distinction, use these examples of different words with voiced and voiceless ‘th’ sounds.

Some examples of voiced ‘th’ words are “then,” “these,” and “though,” while voiceless ‘th’ words are “think,” “thirteen,” and “thumb.”

Word Positions: Voiced TH Words Speech Therapy

Practicing at initial, medial and final levels is a great way to help improve an articulation disorder and achieve clearer speech.

To help our clients improve their speech, we should work with them on target words in all positions. This enables them to practice the correct pronunciation of the voiced TH sound no matter where it appears in a word.

Initial Position of Words

The initial position of words refers to when the TH sound is at the beginning of a word, such as “that” or “this”.

Medial Position of Words

Medial position refers to when the TH sound appears in the middle of a word, such as “father”, “another”, and “leather”.

Final Positions of Words

Final positions of words, on the other hand, occur when the TH sound is at the end of a word, like in “bathe” or “breathe”. This position can be challenging for some clients as it requires sustaining the TH sound through the end of the word.

Target Word

Here’s a list of Voiced TH articulation sounds for you to use in therapy or at home practice to work on your student or child’s new words.

For Example: these, that, them, brother, mother, unbothered, bathe

See full list of words, phrases, and sentences below.

Be sure to grab my one page freebie of Voiced TH sounds below. Simply scroll to the bottom of this post and grab your free copy!

Initial Voiced Th Words at Word Level

Some ways to practice include having your child or student say each /th/ word one by one as they go through a list.

Using a dot marker can also be a fun way to practice having your child put a dot under each voiced TH sound.

In addition, I’ve compiled an easy-to-download one page overview of voiced TH sounds below. Simply scroll down to the bottom of this post and download your free copy.

1 Syllable: the, that, them, than, there, thou, then, they, these, their, they’re, this, those, these, though, thee, thy, they’d, they’ve, they’ll, theirs, thus
2 Syllable: themselves, thereof, thyself, therefore, therein, thereby, thyself, thenceforth, thereon, thereto, therewith, thyselves
3 Syllable: thereafter, thereupon, thereunder, thereabout

Practice Voiced Initial TH Words in Flashcard Mode Right Here From Your Computer!

Voiced Initial TH Words Speech Therapy

Practice Voiced Medial TH Words in Flashcard Mode Right Here From Your Computer

Medial Voiced Th Word List at Word Level

Final Voiced TH Words at Word Level

1 Syllable: bathe, seethe, writhe, loathe, soothe, breathe, lathe, teethe, scathe
2 Syllable: sunbathe, unclothe

Practice Voiced Final Th Words in Flashcard Mode Right Here From Your Computer!

Final th voiced.

Final Voiced TH Word List at Word Level

Short Sentences or Phrases

When working on Voiced TH sound production, it’s important to work on short phrases once your child or student has mastered the sound at the word level at or near 80% or higher accuracy.

Here is a list of Voiced TH word phrases to try:

Voiced Initial TH Words Speech Therapy in Phrases

Voiced Medial TH Words Speech Therapy in Phrases

Voiced Final TH Words Speech Therapy in Phrases

Sentence Level: Voiced TH Words Speech Therapy

The next step after working at the word and phrase levels is to work on the Voiced TH sound at the sentence level.

For example, you could give your child or student a list of sentences to read aloud while they work on their Voiced TH sound.

Another idea would be to give your child or student pictures with their Voiced TH sound in them and then have them create a sentence about those pictures.

Below is a list of sentences to use with your child or students.

Voiced Initial TH Words Speech Therapy in Sentences

Voiced Medial TH Words Speech Therapy in Sentences

Voiced Final TH Words Speech Therapy in Sentences

See also: free articulation games for speech therapy, utilizing speech therapy resources.

To best help students pronounce the correct speech sounds, it is important that their speech therapist utilizes the best speech therapy resources and tools.

We are very passionate about that here at Speech Therapy Store and have compiled articulation word lists and other resources for you to use in your speech therapy sessions or for your home practice.

Implementing Fun Techniques to Engage Children

We know that getting children interested in practicing speech therapy techniques can be a challenge. We have, however, found several ways to engage their attention and make your speech therapy sessions enjoyable for all!

In this blog post, look through the resources we have compiled for some different ways to use free speech therapy resources to teach new sounds!

By incorporating elements such as play dough, games, and family involvement, we aim to facilitate their progress in developing the voiced “th” sound in a confident, knowledgeable, and clear manner. Use our compiled list of free resources below to start implementing speech therapy techniques that are engaging and enjoyable!

Voiced TH Words Speech Therapy Ideas

Older students.

Sometimes you have to get creative when engaging older students with voiced th resources. Use this list for some free resources for your middle school and high school ages students.

Voiced and voiceless TH Articulation Game no prep option by Happy Ideas is an engaging tetris style game for both middle school and high school students. This game operates on a powerpoint presentation and easel activity.
/th/ voiced words (initial-middle) by Bilingual Speechie Bloom is a great list of words for middle school students.
Egg Carton Artic, Speech Therapy Activities, TH Articulation, Homework, FREEBIE by Power Speech Language is a fun activity that would be good for your entire caseload, including your older students!

Minimal Pairs

Do you need minimal pairs therapy for Th-F fricative simplification or minimal pairs therapy for S-Th substitution?

Here are a few resources to help get you started.

TH-F and TH-D Minimal Pairs Cards by World Play Speech Therapy Resources is a comprehensive set of minimal pairs by a top tpt seller. These cards are a great way to offer additional support!
S vs. TH Minimal Pairs – Auditory Discrimination Handout by slpsmartdotcom _ Eli Lowham is a fun and engaging activity with no prep! This is great to work one on one with students or in groups.
TH vs. F Minimal Pairs – Auditory Discrimination Handout byslpsmartdotcom-Eli Lowham is a highly rated activity that requires no prep. Some comments suggest using this as a quick morning work activity, or it can be used in groups!

Enough Time

Feeling like you don’t have enough time to work on your child or students voiced th sound?

Articulation therapy can be as simple as 5 minutes of practice a day.

Here is a list of 5 minute therapy ideas to work on the final l sound.

Christmas Articulation Word Search Voiced and Unvoiced “th” Freebie by Paper Cut City is a great word search to use near the holidays! This targets voiced and voiceless th words.
Speech Therapy th Card game by CoCo Speech is a great set of cards that are just print, cut and go to engage one on one or groups of students in practicing the voiced /th/ sounds. These cards can also be used as articulation cards for drilling!
No-Prep Articulation Coloring Pages – /r/ /s/ /l/ /th/ by Bilingial Speech – Language is a highly rated print and go activity for your students to practice their /th/ articulation.

Therapy Room

Are you a speech therapist looking for voiced th words to practice with your clients?

Here are a couple of fun worksheets and games that you can use in your therapy room to work on the voiced th sound.

TH Bingo by Courtney Berhhardt is a great voiced th bingo set for your therapy room! Print, laminate and re-use this.
FREE Mirror-TIC: TH Articulation for Speech Therapy by Teach Speech 365 is a really fun activity. Grab a mirror and practice various sounds of voiced and voiceless th with the camera cards!
Phoneme Smash Mat K G T D B P M N Ng V F R S Z L W H Th Sh Ch by Miss Lees Bees SLP and Reading Supplies is a great activity to have on hand! Smash the various sounds, or cover specific types of sounds to target another one. This is a great activity for your speech room!

Remember that encouraging child practice with family members also adds an interpersonal aspect to the learning process.

This technique not only helps children connect speech practice with their loved ones but also reinforces the importance of correct pronunciation in daily communication.

Family members can provide positive reinforcement during these sessions, boosting the child’s motivation and confidence in their speech abilities.

Articulation Activity Booklets /TH/ by KI Speech Therapy is a great resource to send home with families! These booklets offer additional support for practice at home.
Articulation Bookmarks for F,V,S,Z,SH, TH by TeachSpeechPro is a great resources for students to take home and use as they read with family at home.
Summer Articulation Word Search Voiced and Unvoiced “th” Freebie!! By Paper Cut City is a fun activity to send home during the summer months that is easy for families to do with students. This activity is print and go and targets voiced and voiceless th.

In Conclusion: Voiced TH Words Speech Therapy

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Columbia Leaders Grilled at Antisemitism Hearing Over Faculty Comments

The university’s president, Nemat Shafik, agreed that some professors had crossed the line as she testified before House lawmakers on questions of student safety and free speech.

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Nicholas Fandos and Sharon Otterman

Here’s what to know about the hearing.

Columbia’s president, Nemat Shafik, agreed on Wednesday that the university needed to take a tougher stance on antisemitism, in response to harsh questioning from a Republican-led House committee in an almost four-hour hearing.

Republicans described what they called a pervasive pattern of bias, including assaults, harassment and vandalism from students and faculty on campus since the Israel-Hamas war began. The hearing was the latest in a campaign to try to prove that college campuses have done little to combat antisemitism.

In her testimony, Dr. Shafik often sounded conciliatory as she tried to reassure the House Committee on Education and the Workforce that she was changing policies and punishing offenders, while also protecting free speech.

It was a stark contrast to the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard, who in a Dec. 5 hearing struggled to answer whether students would be punished if they called for the genocide of Jews. That failure helped lead to their resignations.

“I promise you, from the messages I’m hearing from students, they are getting the message that violations of our policies will have consequences,” Dr. Shafik said.

Here’s what else to know:

Representative Elise Stefanik, the No. 4 Republican in the House, reprised her role from the December hearing as chief prosecutor. In rapid-fire questioning, she pressed Dr. Shafik on three faculty members who defended Hamas or made remarks hostile to Israeli students.

Dr. Shafik said the faculty comments were “unacceptable” and that Columbia had initiated disciplinary proceedings against five professors. She promised that one would never teach at the school again and agreed to remove another as the chairman of an academic review committee.

Dr. Shafik conceded that Columbia had been unprepared, with policies “designed for a very different world.” But after updating them, she said, the university suspended 15 students and warned others. She also stated that any student calling for the genocide of Jews would be punished.

Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, one of two Muslim women serving in Congress, pushed Dr. Shafik from the left. She asked why students on campus were evicted and suspended for their participation in a pro-Palestinian event. Dr. Shafik said the students had refused to cooperate with an investigation.

Alan Blinder

Here are our takeaways from the hearing.

Four Columbia University officials, including the university’s president and the leaders of its board, went before Congress on Wednesday to try to extinguish criticism that the campus in New York has become a hub of antisemitic behavior and thought.

Over more than three hours, the Columbia leaders appeared to avoid the kind of caustic, viral exchange that laid the groundwork for the recent departures of the presidents of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania , whose own appearances before the same House committee ultimately turned into public relations disasters.

Here are the takeaways from the hearing on Capitol Hill.

With three words, Columbia leaders neutralized the question that tripped up officials from other campuses.

In December, questions about whether calling for the genocide of Jewish people violated university disciplinary policies led the presidents of Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania to offer caveat-laden, careful answers that ignited fierce criticism .

The topic surfaced early in Wednesday’s hearing about Columbia, and the Columbia witnesses did not hesitate when they answered.

“Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Columbia’s code of conduct?” asked Representative Suzanne Bonamici, Democrat of Oregon.

“Yes, it does,” replied David Greenwald, the co-chair of Columbia’s board of trustees.

“Yes, it does,” Claire Shipman, the board’s other co-chair, said next.

“Yes, it does,” Nemat Shafik, Columbia’s president, followed.

“Yes, it does,” said David Schizer, a longtime Columbia faculty member who is helping to lead a university task force on antisemitism.

To some lawmakers, Columbia’s effort in recent months remains lacking.

Even before the hearing started, Columbia officials have said that its procedures were not up to the task of managing the tumult that has unfolded in the months after the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7.

In a written submission to the committee, Dr. Shafik, who became Columbia’s president last year, said she was “personally frustrated to find that Columbia’s policies and structures were sometimes unable to meet the moment.”

She added the university’s disciplinary system was far more accustomed to dealing with infractions around matters like alcohol use and academic misconduct. But Columbia officials have lately toughened rules around protests and scrutinized students and faculty members alike.

Some Republican lawmakers pressed the university to take more aggressive action.

Representative Tim Walberg, Republican of Michigan, focused on Joseph Massad, a Columbia professor he accused of glorifying the Oct. 7 attack. Mr. Walberg demanded to know whether Ms. Shipman and Mr. Greenwald would approve tenure for Dr. Massad today.

Both said they would not, prompting Mr. Walberg to retort, “Then why is he still in the classroom?"

In an email on Wednesday, Professor Massad said he had not watched the hearing but had seen some clips. He accused Mr. Walberg of distorting his writing and said it was “unfortunate” that Columbia officials had not defended him.

Professor Massad said it was also “news to me” that he was the subject of a Columbia inquiry, as Dr. Shafik said he was.

Dr. Shafik, who noted that Columbia has about 4,700 faculty members, vowed in the hearing that there would be “consequences” for employees who “make remarks that cross the line in terms of antisemitism.”

So far, Dr. Shafik said, five people have been removed from the classroom or ousted from Columbia in recent months. Dr. Shafik said that Mohamed Abdou, a visiting professor who drew the ire of Representative Elise Stefanik, Republican of New York, “is grading his students’ papers and will never teach at Columbia again.” Dr. Abdou did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Columbia’s strategy before Congress: Signal collaboration, and even give some ground.

Congressional witnesses can use an array of approaches to get through a hearing, from defiance to genuflection. Columbia leaders’ approach on Wednesday tilted toward the latter as they faced a proceeding titled, “Columbia in Crisis: Columbia University’s Response to Antisemitism.”

Ms. Shipman told lawmakers that she was “grateful” for “the spotlight that you are putting on this ancient hatred,” and Mr. Greenwald said the university appreciated “the opportunity to assist the committee in its important effort to examine antisemitism on college campuses.”

But there were moments when university leaders offered more than Washington-ready rhetoric.

When Ms. Stefanik pressed Dr. Shafik to commit to removing Professor Massad from a leadership post, the president inhaled, her hands folded before her on the witness table.

“I think that would be — I think, I would, yes. Let me come back with yes,” Dr. Shafik responded after a few seconds. (After the hearing, a university spokesman said Professor Massad’s term as chair of an academic review panel was already set to end after this semester.)

Representative Kevin Kiley, Republican of California, effectively asked Dr. Shafik to draw a red line for the faculty.

“Would you be willing to make just a statement right now to any members of the faculty at your university that if they engage in antisemitic words or conduct that they should find another place to work?” Mr. Kiley asked.

“I would be happy to make a statement that anyone, any faculty member, at Columbia who behaves in an antisemitic way or in any way a discriminatory way should find somewhere else to go,” Dr. Shafik replied.

Even though the conciliatory tactics regularly mollified lawmakers, they could deepen discontent on campus.

Republicans are already planning another hearing.

The hearing that contributed to the exits of the Harvard and Penn presidents emboldened the Republicans who control the House committee that convened on Wednesday.

Even before the proceeding with Columbia leaders, they had already scheduled a hearing for next month with top officials from the school systems in New York City, Montgomery County, Md., and Berkeley, Calif.

Stephanie Saul and Anemona Hartocollis contributed reporting.

Anusha Bayya

Riley Chodak, 22, is graduating in a month and said she feels like her senior-year college experience has been snatched away from her because of the atmosphere on campus. “The fact that our campus is blocked off — it feels a little bit like a war zone here,” the Ohio native said. She said she believes the university is “cracking down on anyone who's trying to show anyone solidarity.”

Sharon Otterman

And we are adjourned! No single standout moment. This hearing was perhaps most remarkable for how much the Columbia representatives agreed with the committee that antisemitism was a serious problem on its campus.

It remains to be seen how Columbia’s faculty will respond to their president's pledges to crack down on Joseph Massad and other tenured faculty that the committee targeted as antisemitic and demanded disciplinary action be taken against.

In her closing statement, Representative Virginia Foxx is using some of the thousands of documents she got from Columbia to fact check some of their remarks. She says it was misleading for Columbia to say 15 students have been suspended after Oct. 7. She said only three students were, for antisemitic conduct, and those were lifted. She also says the only two students who remain suspended are the two Jewish students who were accused of attacking a protest with a foul-smelling substance.

Mimi Gupta, 45, a Columbia grad student, was in the Multicultural Center on campus where President Shafik’s testimony is being broadcast on the big screen. “The president of Columbia is just getting eviscerated," she said.

“Senators, they just are asking really leading questions, talking over her and the students are just gasping and are shocked,” she said. Some in the audience occasionally piped up, shouting towards the screen when they felt that those grilling Shafik were being particularly hostile.

Stephanie Saul

Who are the Columbia professors mentioned in the hearing?

Several Columbia faculty members — Joseph Andoni Massad, Katherine Franke and Mohamed Abdou — were in the spotlight at Wednesday’s hearing before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

All three had taken pro-Palestinian stances, and lawmakers grilled university officials over how they responded to what Columbia’s President Nemat Shafik agreed were “unacceptable” comments by the faculty members.

At the hearing, Dr. Shafik divulged that two of the professors — Dr. Massad and Ms. Franke — were under investigation for making “discriminatory remarks,” and said that Dr. Abdou “will never work at Columbia again.” Such responses drew a sharp rebuke from some professors and the American Association of University Professors, which said she capitulated to political grandstanding and, in the process, violated established tenets of academic freedom.

“We are witnessing a new era of McCarthyism where a House Committee is using college presidents and professors for political theater,” said Irene Mulvey, national president of the AAUP. She added, “President Shafik’s public naming of professors under investigation to placate a hostile committee sets a dangerous precedent for academic freedom and has echoes of the cowardice often displayed during the McCarthy era.”

Dr. Massad, who is of Palestinian Christian descent, was the focus of Representative Tim Walberg’s questioning. He teaches modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia, where he also received his Ph.D. in political science.

Long known for his anti-Israel positions, he published a controversial article in The Electronic Intifada last October, in the wake of the Hamas attack, describing it as a “resistance offensive” staged in retaliation to Israel’s settler-colonies near the Gaza border.

The piece drew a visceral response and demands for his dismissal in a petition by a Columbia student that was signed by tens of thousands of people. The petition specifically criticized Dr. Massad’s use of the word “awesome” to describe the scene of the attack.

Dr. Massad’s posture has drawn controversy for years. When he was awarded tenure in 2009, 14 Columbia professors expressed their concern in a letter to the provost. Generally, professors with tenure face a much higher bar for termination than those without the status.

More recently, however, professors nationally have rallied to support him, emphasizing his academic right to voice his opinion.

In a statement after the hearing, Dr. Massad said that the House committee members had mischaracterized his article. Mr. Walberg said that Dr. Massad had said Hamas’s murder of Jews was “awesome, astonishing, astounding and incredible.”

“I certainly said nothing of the sort,” Dr. Massad said.

In testimony responding to questions from Mr. Walberg, a Michigan Republican, Dr. Shafik said that Dr. Massad had been removed from a leadership role at the university, where he headed an academic review panel.

But Dr. Massad said in an email that he had not been notified by Columbia that he was under investigation, adding that he had been previously scheduled to end his chairmanship of the academic review committee at the end of the semester, a statement that a spokesman for Columbia verified after the hearing.

Dr. Massad said it was “unfortunate” that Dr. Shafik and other university leaders “would condemn fabricated statements that I never made when all three of them should have corrected the record to show that I never said or wrote such reprehensible statements.”

Katherine Franke, a law professor at Columbia, was also mentioned in the hearing for her activist role and a comment that “all Israeli students who served in the I.D.F. are dangerous and shouldn’t be on campus,” referring to the Israel Defense Forces.

Ms. Franke, who did not immediately respond to requests for comment, recently wrote a piece in The Nation raising questions about academic freedom at Columbia, where she has taught since 1999.

Mohamed Abdou was also named in the hearing. Dr. Abdou was hired as a visiting scholar for the Spring 2024 term, and was teaching a course called “ Decolonial-Queerness and Abolition. ”

A biography on Columbia’s website describes Dr. Abdou as “a North African-Egyptian Muslim anarchist interdisciplinary activist-scholar of Indigenous, Black, critical race and Islamic studies, as well as gender, sexuality, abolition and decolonization.”

Representative Elise Stefanik asked why he was hired even after his social media post on Oct. 11 that read, “I’m with Hamas & Hezbollah & Islamic Jihad.” Dr. Shafik said, “He will never work at Columbia again. Dr. Abdou did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Sheldon Pollock, a retired Columbia professor who serves on the executive committee of Columbia’s American Association of University Professors chapter, called such comments about specific professors “deeply worrying,” adding that he thought Dr. Shafik was “bullied by these people into saying things I’m sure she regrets.”

He continued, “What happened to the idea of academic freedom in today’s testimony? I don’t think that phrase was used even once.

A spokesman for Columbia declined to comment on the criticism of Dr. Shafik.

Elise Stefanik is up again. She is trying to get Shafik to condemn “from the River to the Sea” as antisemitic and discipline students for saying it. Shafik says “we are looking at it.”

Annie Karni

Stefanik asked the same question of Claudine Gay, the former president of Harvard University. Gay’s response was that, while she personally thought the language was “abhorrent,” the university embraced “a commitment to free expression even of views that are objectionable, offensive, hateful.”

Several Republicans have now praised the Columbia representatives for giving clear answers to their questions.

Stefanik seems to have pushed Shafik into committing to remove a professor, Joseph Massad, who has become a focus of the hearing because of his statements celebrating the Hamas attacks, as chair of the academic review committee. Shafik appeared flustered by the line of questioning, and confused about his current status. But she answered “yes” when asked if she would commit to removing him as chair.

“He was spoken to by his head of department and his dean.” “And what was he told?” “I was not in those conversations, I think —” “But you’re not what he was told —” “That language was unacceptable.” “What was he told? What was he told?” “That that language was unacceptable.” “And were there any other enforcement actions taken? Any other disciplinary actions taken?” “In his case? He has not repeated anything like that ever since.” “Does he need to repeat stating that the massacre of Israeli civilians was awesome? Does he need to repeat his participation in an unauthorized pro-Hamas demonstration on April 4? Has he been terminated as chair?” “Congresswoman, I want to confirm the facts before getting back to you.” “I know you confirmed that he was under investigation.” “Yes, I can confirm that.” “Did you confirm he was still the chair?” “I need to confirm that with you. I’m —” “Well, let me ask you this: Will you make the commitment to remove him as chair?” “I think that would be — I think, I would, yes. Let me come back with yes.”

Representative Elise Stefanik is challenging President Shafik after she had said in earlier testimony there had not been anti-Jewish protests on campus. Now, under questioning, she acknowledges anti-Jewish things were said at protests.

Overall, Republicans on this committee are pushing Columbia to take a tough stance on defining what antisemitism is, and include anti-Zionist speech, something it has tried not to do. It doesn’t have an official definition of the term.

Representative Aaron Bean, a Republican of Florida, congratulates the Columbia witnesses, saying they did better than the presidents of Harvard and Penn at their hearing in December. They were able to say they were against antisemitism, but he says that there is still fear on campus among Jewish students. “You are saying the right things.”

While there have been some tense moments in the hearing, there has not yet been the kind of viral moment related to the university’s inadequate response to antisemitism that House Republicans were able to create in the infamous hearing with the presidents of Harvard, University of Pennsylvania and M.I.T. But that exchange, which ultimately lead to the ouster of two Ivy League presidents, came at the tail end of a session that lasted four and a half hours.

Here are some of the recent antisemitism allegations against Columbia.

The House committee investigating Columbia University for antisemitism has claimed that “an environment of pervasive antisemitism has been documented at Columbia for more than two decades” and that the administration has not done enough in response.

Here are some of the recent allegations :

On Oct. 11, 2023, a Columbia student who is Israeli was beaten with a stick by a former undergraduate who had been ripping down pictures of Israeli hostages, according to the New York Police Department.

Multiple students say they have been cursed at for being Jewish. One student held up a sign in October that read “Columbia doesn’t care about the safety and well-being of Jewish students.”

Following allegations that two Israeli students released a foul-smelling chemical at a pro-Palestinian demonstration in January, a poster appeared around campus with the image of a blue and white skunk with a Star of David on its back.

Several professors have made antisemitic remarks or expressed support for the Oct. 7 attack, including Joseph Massad, a professor of modern Arab politics, who published an article on Oct. 8 describing the attack with terms such as “awesome” and “astounding.”

Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, spoke on behalf of pro-Palestinian students who were suspended or hurt. Shafik said she suspended students after a Resistance 101 event, where people spoke in support of Hamas, because they did not cooperate with the investigation. Omar also asks about an alleged chemical attack on pro-Palestinian protesters. Shafik says she reached out to those students, but that the investigation is still with the police.

Omar, one of just two Muslim women serving in Congress, is grilling Shafik from the left, using her time to ask why pro-Palestinian students on campus were evicted, suspended, harassed and intimidated for their participation in a pro-Palestinian event. Shafik said it was a very serious situation and the students refused to cooperate with the investigation.

Two professors, Joseph Massad and Katherine Franke, are “under investigation for discriminatory remarks,” Shafik says, apparently breaking some news here.

Representative Jamaal Bowman, a Democrat of New York, is trying to make the case for pro-Palestinian students who feel they have a right to express their views, saying that those views aren’t necessarily hateful, even if they make people feel uncomfortable. He’s entering for the record a letter from 600 faculty and students supporting open inquiry on campus.

The hearing is back after a brief recess. The length of the proceedings could prove important, since Claudine Gay, Harvard’s former president, has partly blamed the protracted nature of an exchange during December’s hearing for answers she gave that drew widespread criticism.

Representative Lisa McClain, Republican of Michigan, is drilling down on whether there is a definition on campus for antisemitism. David Schizer, who is a co-chair of the university's task force on antisemitism, calls a New York Times article about how the task force has no definition false. However, the committee has no official definition for antisemitism. He offers his own personal definition to the committee, as does Shafik. “For me personally, any discrimination against people of the Jewish faith is antisemitism,” she said.

Earlier in the hearing, Claire Shipman, co-chair of Columbia's board of trustees, detailed steps Columbia has taken to try to get the tensions under control, including suspending two student groups, Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace.

Columbia has been host to charged protests over Gaza in recent months.

Columbia University has toughened how it handles campus protests since the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7. Here are some of the key moments:

Oct. 12, 2023: Hundreds of protesters gathered at Columbia University for tense pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrations that caused school administrators to take the then-extraordinary step of closing the campus to the public. The school now closes the campus routinely when protests are scheduled.

Nov. 9, 2023: Columbia suspended two main pro-Palestinian student groups, Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace, after they held an unauthorized student walkout. Administrators said the event had “proceeded despite warnings and contained threatening rhetoric and intimidation” after one person shouted anti-Jewish epithets. Protest organizers said they had tried to silence the person.

Jan. 19, 2024: Pro-Palestinian protesters said that someone sprayed them with a foul-smelling substance at a rally, causing at least eight students to seek medical treatment. Columbia labeled the incident a possible hate crime, barred the alleged perpetrators from campus and opened an investigation. Protest attendees, citing video evidence , say they believe the perpetrators were two students who had been verbally harassing them, but Columbia has given no details about their identities.

Feb. 19, 2024: Columbia announced a new protest policy . Protests are now only permitted in designated “demonstration areas” on weekday afternoons, and require two days’ notice to administrators. First-time violators receive warnings. Repeat violators are brought before a judicial board.

April 5, 2024: The university’s president announces the immediate suspension of multiple students accused of playing a role in organizing a March 24 event, “ Resistance 101 ,” at which the presenters spoke openly in support of Hamas and other U.S.-designated terrorist organizations. The students were told they would be evicted from student housing.

Representative Burgess Owens, Republican of Utah, is drilling down on an apparent double standard at Columbia. He suggests that it would not be tolerated for a moment if people called an attack on Black people “awesome” and “stunning” but that it has been acceptable for faculty to say about Jewish students for decades.

Representative Jim Banks, Republican of Indiana, is asking about a glossary given out at the School of Social Work that lists a term that appears to classify Jews as white, and therefore privileged. Shafik says it is not an official document. He also asks why the word "folks" is spelled "folx" in the document, a progressive quirk. "They can't spell?" Shafik says, getting an audience chuckle.

Anemona Hartocollis

Representative Gregorio Sablan, a Democrat from the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Island, seized on the fact that Shafik and other Columbia officials had been cut off, and offered them a chance to complete their answers. Shafik said that many of the questionable appointments “were made in the past in a different era, and that era is done.”

Columbia University has been on strict lockdown all week, and today is no exception. Barricades have been erected, numerous police officers are stationed at both main entrances to the campus and no one is being allowed to enter without a Columbia University ID. Protesters have assembled today on Broadway wearing shirts with the words “Revolution Nothing Less!” on the front.

Nicholas Fandos

Elise Stefanik has taken aim at college presidents on elite campuses.

She may not be a committee chair, but perhaps no single Republican lawmaker has done more to exert pressure on elite universities since the Israel-Gaza war began than Representative Elise Stefanik of New York.

Ms. Stefanik was already a rising star within her party, the top-ranking woman in Republican House leadership and considered a potential presidential running mate when the House Education and Workforce Committee began investigating antisemitism on college campuses. But her grilling of the presidents of Harvard, University of Pennsylvania and M.I.T. at a December hearing became a defining moment .

Ms. Stefanik pressed the leaders to say whether students would violate their universities’ codes of conduct if they called for the genocide of Jews. Their dispassionate, lawyerly answers about context and free speech set off a firestorm that ultimately helped cost two of them, Claudine Gay of Harvard and Elizabeth Magill of the Penn, their jobs.

The exchange also helped win Ms. Stefanik widespread attention and rare plaudits from grudging liberals, who typically revile her for embracing former President Donald J. Trump and his lies about the 2020 election. On Wednesday, she was named one of Time’s 100 most influential people of 2024.

Ms. Stefanik is a graduate of Harvard herself. When she first won her seat in 2014, she was the youngest woman ever elected to the House of Representatives. She beat a centrist Democrat, and in the early days of her career, she took on more moderate stances.

These days, she describes herself as “ultra MAGA” and “proud of it .”

Ms. Stefanik, 39, has said she was “stunned” by the responses of the presidents during the last hearing. She plans to reprise that role on Wednesday, grilling the president of Columbia University, Nemat Shafik, and members of its board of trustees.

In an opinion piece in The New York Post before the hearing, Ms. Stefanik said antisemitism at Columbia had become “egregious and commonplace.” She charged Dr. Shafik with failing “to ensure Jewish students are able to attend school in a safe environment.”

Shafik emphasizes that Columbia has ramped up disciplinary proceedings.

In her opening remarks, Nemat Shafik, president of Columbia University, gave an idea of how pervasive complaints of antisemitism have become since Oct. 7, adding that Columbia had been aggressive in pursuing disciplinary action.

Dr. Shafik said that the disciplinary process at Columbia, which has about 5,000 Jewish students, typically handles 1,000 student-conduct cases a year. Most of those are related to typical campus infractions, such as academic dishonesty, the use of alcohol and illegal substances, and one-on-one student complaints.

“Today, student-misconduct cases are far outpacing last year,” said Dr. Shafik, who goes by Minouche.

She did not provide an exact number of complaints this year, and did not address what portion of the increase had to do with protests related to the Israel-Hamas war. But she implied that it was significant.

The university’s current policies were “not designed to address the types of events and protests that followed the Oct. 7 attack,” Dr. Shafik said.

The task of combating antisemitism provided a vehicle for underscoring why colleges and universities matter, she said. Antisemitism had been a scourge for some 2,000 years, she said. “One would hope that by the 21st century, antisemitism would have been related to the dustbin of history, but it has not.”

To deal with it, Dr. Shafik said, she would look toward periods “where antisemitism has been in abeyance.”

“Those periods were characterized by enlightened leadership, inclusive cultures and clarity about rights and obligations,” she said, adding that she was committed to fostering those values at Columbia.

Who are Claire Shipman and David Greenwald?

Testifying alongside Nemat Shafik, the Columbia University president, are the two co-chairs of Columbia’s board of trustees, Claire Shipman and David Greenwald . Like Dr. Shafik, they are relatively new to their roles.

Ms. Shipman is a journalist and author who spent three decades working in television news for ABC, NBC and CNN, and who now writes books about women’s leadership and confidence. A graduate of Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs and Columbia College, she joined the board of trustees in 2013. She became co-chair in September.

Mr. Greenwald is a corporate lawyer who was chairman of the law firm Fried Frank before stepping down earlier this year. He has also worked as a deputy general counsel for Goldman Sachs. A graduate of Columbia Law School, he also serves on other nonprofit boards, including for NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. He was elected to the 21-member board in 2018, and become co-chair in September.

Both were on the presidential search committee, which oversaw the process of selecting Dr. Shafik.

David Schizer, a former dean of Columbia Law School and a co-chair of the school’s antisemitism task force , is also testifying. He was announced as an additional witness Monday.

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Read Nemat Shafik’s prepared opening remarks.

In her prepared opening statement, Nemat Shafik, the president of Columbia University, laid out ways the university has been responding to antisemitism on campus.

Here’s the statement.

Nemat shafik is new to columbia, but not to high-profile settings..

Columbia’s president, Nemat Shafik, is no stranger to handling crises.

As a young economist at the World Bank, she advised governments in Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall. As a deputy managing director at the International Monetary Fund, she worked to stabilize national economies during the European debt crisis, and oversaw loans to Middle East countries during the uprisings of the Arab Spring.

Now, as the first female president of Columbia University, Dr. Shafik, who goes by Minouche, finds herself at the center of American political tensions over the war in Gaza and intense criticism over Columbia’s efforts to counter antisemitism.

Dr. Shafik’s supporters hope that her experience — and also what they describe as her cut-to-the-chase decision-making style — will help her navigate the kind of questioning that tripped up her peers from Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania in December.

Born in Alexandria, Egypt, Dr. Shafik’s family relocated to the United States in the 1960s after their home and property in Egypt were nationalized, she has said in interviews.

She lived in Savannah, Ga., as a child, and in Egypt as a teenager, returning to the United States to get her bachelor’s degree at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She received her Ph.D. in economics from St. Antony’s College, at Oxford University.

After leaving the I.M.F. in 2014, she was a deputy governor of the Bank of England before returning to academia as president of the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2017. She started at Columbia in July . Her response to campus tensions sparked by the Israel-Hamas war has been her first big test.

Read Representative Foxx’s opening remarks.

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260+ T Words, Phrases, Sentences, and Reading Passages
Don't get me wrong, Terry's makes good hamburgers, but their tacos taste much better in my opinion. Tia just isn't a big taco fan. Most of the time she would rather find an exit than eat a taco. But when she wants a taco, she gets really excited about it. She is like my dad. Dad doesn't want to eat tacos very often.
T Word List For Speech Therapy
If you are a speech therapist and you need some T speech therapy materials, hopefully, our T word list can help you! Below you will find lots of free materials! First, there is a FREE worksheet (for non-members) and link (for members) to access new articulation materials. Second, there is a word list for quick viewing.
T Word Lists and Speech Therapy Activities
T Word Lists and Activity Ideas for Speech Therapy. A Speech Therapist shares tips on how to teach the T sound. Learn about voice and voiceless pairs. Includes initial T word list, medial T word list, and final T word lists. Activity ideas and speech therapy resource suggestions for the T sound. Gam
PDF T-Final Words
bat coat hot white hat night wet foot meat cat vet rabbit barrette vest target bucket magnet basket light carrot /t/ final words Created by Heidi Hanks M.S.CCC-SLP in ...
How to Teach T Sound: Articulation Activities, and Word Lists for
How to Teach T Sound: Articulation Activities, and Word Lists for Effective Speech Therapy. The "t" sound is an unvoiced alveolar plosive, which means that it is produced by briefly stopping the airflow from the lungs using the tip of the tongue (alveolar) and then releasing it in a sudden burst (plosive). Unlike the "d" sound, the ...
75+ TH Final Words Speech Therapy {Free PDF!}
Here's a list of final th articulation sounds for you to use in therapy or at home practice to work on your student or child's new skill. For Example: broth, path, wreath, bath, north, tooth, moth, math, south, cloth, oath, sloth. See full list of words, phrases, and sentences below. Be sure to grab my one page freebie of final th sounds below.
T Word Targets for Speech Therapy
These word lists serve as invaluable tools for speech-language pathologists aiming to enhance articulation skills or phoneme elicitation. Whether you're an experienced professional or an NQP in the field, these meticulously curated lists offer a comprehensive and convenient reference point.
PDF medial t words
Microsoft Word - medial t words.doc Author: hgehringer Created Date: 3/14/2011 1:16:57 PM ...
/t/ Word List
Utilize this word list during structured therapy sessions and/or send home for extra practice. Incorporates Dolch Words. License. No License (NL) ... Phonological Awareness Intervention: Beyond the Basics Author(s): Schuele, C. & Boudrea, D. Speech Sound Disorders: Articulation and Phonology Author(s): The American Speech-Language-Hearing ...
PDF t-initial words
t-initial words Author: hhanks Created Date: 3/19/2008 3:08:28 PM ...
100+ TR Words for Speech Therapy (Sound Blends Word Lists!)
TR words: truck, train, tray, tree, trust. STR words: street, strong, stripe, strawberry, structure. We can create fun activities to practice these words, such as memory games, word matching, or flashcards. Including visuals, like images of the objects, can help clients associate the words with their meanings.
PDF T-Medial Words
potato seat belt ponytail chapstick empty fruitcake pasta doctor tater tots pop tart tortilla chips utensils drumsticks valentine Santa Claus military
TH Words, Lists, Materials, and Everything You Need!
Shannon is a pediatric SLP and the creator behind Speechy Musings. As an SLP, she is most passionate about language, literacy, and AAC. Outside of being an SLP, she loves hiking, camping, dogs, and travel. Get ready to target voiced and voiceless TH words with all my top ideas, materials, and word lists perfect for all your "th" articulation!
Free SLP Targeted Word Lists for Speech Therapy
Free virtual and printable words lists for practicing artic words in speech therapy! Our no-prep speech therapy word lists for every sound and phonological process are great for SLPs, parents, and teachers needing quick articulation word lists for drilling.
Word Lists by Sound for Speech Therapy Practice at Home
This is a comprehensive list of words, divided by sounds, that you can use at home for Speech Therapy practice. For Articulation Students: Have your student say the word and be certain they are producing their target sound correctly. Choose the correct word position (initial, medial, final) for the student's current level of work. For Language ...
How to Pick Vocabulary Words for Speech Therapy
One of the best and most practical places to find words is to look at their academic worksheets, read the directions, and focus on the verbs. Words like arranging, summarize, incorporate, detail, etc will pop up left and right. These are examples of tier 2, functional vocabulary words. I do not assume that the students know these words despite ...
TH Words for Speech Therapy (Word Lists and Activities)
The following word lists contain words with the initial th sound, medial th sound, and final th sound. These articulation word lists allow the speech therapist to easily work on a target sound and speech goals in speech therapy at the word level. Or, have your student think of an extra word or two to create short phrases for practice.
PDF th-initial words
throw theater Thursday therapy thirsty their Thanksgiving thermometer thank you three thread thigh throat thongs think thirty thick Thumbs up! third thunder ... Title: th-initial words Author: hhanks Created Date: 9/22/2007 1:16:01 PM ...
135+ Voiced TH Words Speech Therapy (Free Word Lists)
Here's a list of Voiced TH articulation sounds for you to use in therapy or at home practice to work on your student or child's new words. For Example: these, that, them, brother, mother, unbothered, bathe. See full list of words, phrases, and sentences below. Be sure to grab my one page freebie of Voiced TH sounds below.
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