Every SLP has a bag of tricks for treating persistent /r/ errors. Increasingly, that might include high-tech visual biofeedback tools like ultrasound that allow children to see what their articulators are doing in real time. We’ve talked before about ultrasound as an up-and-coming tool to target speech production, and a new study gives us more evidence that it works.

The study looked at traditional vs. ultrasound visual biofeedback treatment for vocalic /r/ errors in older children (age 9–14). One group of children did 8 ultrasound sessions and then 8 traditional sessions, and the other group did the opposite. In both types of session…