Diction Exercices – Warm-Ups

These warm-up exercises are part of speech therapy treatments. Many examples and demonstrations can be found on the internet.

Exercise 1 :

a) Facial Gymnastics

The tongue is a muscle that needs to be exercised. Here are some exercises to do: Moving the tongue up and down (behind the teeth); from side to side (right check- left cheek); touching the back teeth (up and down, right to left)

b) Basic Diction Exercises

Simple words must be practiced, such as : kata, kata, kata Pa, Pa, Pa Pata, Pata, Pata, Pataka, Pataka, Pataka.

The following websites might be of use:

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