I try to make therapy engaging and enjoyable while still maintaining focus on speech targets. Because the focus of treatment is to smoothly and accurately move from one sound and syllable to the next I use principles of motor learning and start with touch and visual prompts (Dynamic Temporal Tactile Cueing or DTTC) to help children accurately move their tongue, lips and other articulators through those transitions in motor movements that are required for intelligible speech. Like any motor task speech movements require a lot of practice with accurate productions of target movements. I try to schedule 2-3 shorter sessions per week versus 1 long session. During the therapy session I strategically choose 5 or less words to practice so the child has multiple opportunities to practice the correct motor movements. I strive to get at least 150-200 correct productions per session. Accuracy is important. In order to assure that children do not practice and repeat incorrectly I make sure to give them precise feedback on their productions. I begin practice with a simultaneous model, having the child say the target along with me and then move to a delayed model where they have to produce the target with increasing amounts of delay time from my production to theirs to work toward independently producing correct targets. I begin with "blocked" practice for learning specific movements repetitively and then transition to "random" practice of different movements for generalizing to speech outside of therapy. I use a variety of materials and activities in very short bursts to motivate and engage children and help them look forward to therapy sessions.