What is the Cycles Approach?In the cycles approach, therapists treat phonological processes, which are error patterns in children’s speech. For example, some children delete all consonants off the ends of words. This is called “final consonant deletion” and is a specific pattern of speech errors. This is considered a phonological process.The cycles approach treats children who use a lot of different phonological processes (error patterns) by targeting each process for a short amount of time and then cycling through other phonological processes.For example, therapy may target final consonant deletion for 6 weeks and then switch to target stopping of fricatives for another 6 weeks. After all phonological processes are targeted, the cycles start over again and the original process is targeted again.Therapy is continued for each process until it is eliminated from the child’s conversational speech.