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The Speech Banana

The Speech Banana is a graph that describes frequency and intensity levels of letter sounds in typical human conversation. It is shaped like a banana. If you are teaching consonant sounds, and you have a student who seems to have difficulty learning particular sounds, you will do the child a huge favor in looking at the Speech Banana graph.

1 Aug 2026 Gini Musmanno Auditory Discrimination, Word Analysis No Comments Permalink Read Post
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