Goal: To keep the tongue behind the "bars" (teeth).
Instruction:
The Setup: Smile big and close your teeth.
The Visual: Your teeth are the Cage. Your tongue is the Snake.
The Rule: "Don't let the snake out of the cage! Keep him safe inside."
Practice: Say "Sssss" while looking in a mirror. If you see pink (the tongue), the snake escaped!
Goal: To use the T sound to pull the tongue back.
Instruction:
Say "T-T-T-T" (Notice how the tongue taps behind the teeth, not between them).
Now say "T-T-T-Ts".
Stretch the last T into an S: "T-T-Tsssss".
The T acts as an anchor to keep the tongue in the right spot.