These are very quick, super simple, informal speech and language screening tools for PreK, Kindergarten and First Grade. They were designed to get a fast glimpse into a student's speech and language skills and to help determine if any additional interventions or evaluations are necessary. ENJOY!
The My Little House Preschool Language Screener is a non-standardized screening tool created to help assess language skills in young children.
Attention: Twin sister bragging time is about to occur! Ready in 1, 2, 3... Here we go! Yes, that's Shanda's name on the front of this awesome interactive apraxia treatment book!! She had a dream to share her specialized therapy activities with the world and she DID IT! Shanda has been treating the birth to five population for 17 + years and throughout those years, she has developed her own style of fun and interactive activities for helping to elicit talking in children with limited speech. And "yes" she has done JUST THAT (got little ones talking when they never did before) many times over! I have seen it myself and have heard back from more parents that I can recall that they think that she is an amazing therapist and that she was the person who helped them hear their child speak their very first words. Awesome, huh?! Shanda has a way of getting children as young as one and others with speech apraxia to TALK!! She does it by utilizing a total communication approach that includes everything from teaching early sign language, visual phonics, production of early speech sounds, the use of PROMPT, the elicitation of early words that follow a cv, vc, vcv, cvcv, cvc pattern, and also by developing a picture exchange system if that is needed. It's true! I've witnessed her program work over and over again. It really does work! I think that she is amazing! One of the most wonderful things is that she can get little ones to concentrate on some interactive activities right up at the treatment table. These activities are always very fun and productive and I have witnessed the children laughing and smiling during their treatment sessions. They truly have a wonderful time when she is treating them. I've seen her elicit a TON of verbal productions from the children whom she is treating when she does these worksheet based activities. They include interactive activities like: saying and then gluing a picture with the targeted word onto a picture scene, dotting with a paint dotter next to the targeted picture, tracing lines to targeted sound productions, color by number, and even simple mazes and roll the die games, and much more! She made these worksheets and activities for many years with her own computer because nothing quite like them were in existence. It's with that knowledge that she decided to put all of her years worth of work into one large treatment packet to share with other speech-language pathologists whom would appreciate having them too. She teamed up with Super Duper Publications, and WHALA! The Say & Do Apraxia Fun Sheets Workbook was created! Please come and take a look at it over at Super Duper Publications. It was just put up for sale two weeks ago and we hope that a lot of people can head over to Super Duper to check it out! We would love to see what you think. Perhaps you could try out some of the activities with your own speech students whom currently have a limited about of verbalizations to see if you too, can get a ton of repetitions like Shanda can! Just start at the level that your student is ready for. Perhaps it is the CV or the VC level? Or maybe they are a bit more advanced and can try the CVCV or CVC levels? The workbook is HUGE and each section has a ton of activities and I think that you would be able to utilize it for many years to come and with a large variety of students on your caseload. There are four sections total: CV, VC, CVCV, and one for CVC words and a total of 160 reproducible activities inside. I'm biased of course, but I'm quite sure you will LOVE this workbook and you will elicit a ton of verbalizations from your own students if you purchase it and give it a try in your therapy sessions! Why don't you come and pick it up now? Super Duper is having a terrific sale for a short time. In fact, you can save 50% off any product of your choice right now by just entering the code: SWD50 when you check out. Click here for a direct link. Happy 50% off shopping! Sincerely, Manda, a.k.a. proud twin sister of a published author. :)
Negation books that contain repetitive negatives to help teach the concept of negation expressively and receptively!
Children can dance while they sing the song, and touch their head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes in sequence while singing each word. Lyrics Head, shoulders, knees and toes Knees and toes Head, shoulders, knees and toes Knees and toes And eyes and ears and mouth and nose .... Pecs lyrics (pictograms version) Source information and lyrics: Wikipedia
Early Intervention and Speech Therapy Clinicians - this bundle is for you! Are you looking for ready-to-go and easily customizable resources? Look no further! I combined my most popular resources for early intervention and preschool into this money-saving (and time-saving) bundle to help you support families. You get session notes, handouts, visuals, and routines-based activities. All of the resources included in this bundle are designed for preschool, early intervention, and speech therapy clinicians. This bundle includes: Routines-Based Early Language Visual Support (with templates) Forms for Home Visits Parent Coaching Support Session notes (seasonal and original) I am happy to make adjustments to fit your needs, so please don't hesitate to contact me [email protected]. - Eva P.S. You can grab free handouts and more right here! Let's connect! Facebook Instagram Blog
Speech developmental norms - speech sounds, intelligibility, and more! Download free speech therapy development handouts.
Your students will love improving their Spanish language skills while using these innovative game sheets and ink daubers.
This 76-page product was designed to use in a binder as a portable, complete resource to target basic concepts and listening skills. Pages target: Color Sorting Location Prepositions Build A Face! …
Social Skills Games are a fun way to engage your students during speech therapy! They are quick, no prep and can even be used as smash mats! They are a fun speech and language activity for your students! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✎ABOUT These games are perfect for those days when you don't have time to plan! ~ Targets a variety of social skills. ~ Give each student a different board within mixed groups! ~ They are perfect for homework! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✎What's Included? This product contains one board for each of the following: Emotions 1 and 2 Friends Initiating Conversations 1 and 2 Negative Behaviors 1 and 2 Positive Behaviors 1 and 2 Topic Maintenance 1 and 2 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✎Population This set should be used with students PreK - 3rd grade. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✎To Use: Flip a coin to move one or two spaces! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❤️Save your time and money with SpeechTherapyPlans.com! Get access right now to over 1,000+ therapy materials, a caseload management system, scheduling software, premade therapy plans, and more!❤️
I'm working on left vs. right with one of my clients! This would be fun to use with "Simon Says" in a group! Click here to download!
Hands-on and play-based activities for all children no matter their age or skill level. You can find the perfect activity for reluctant students, homeschoolers, and children who enjoy active learning.
Gestalt language processing is a different way of learning and acquiring language. However, this way of developing language is common, natural, and valid! Gestalt Language Processors initially assign an overall “feeling” to a word, phrase, or sentence. These learners often focus on the intonation of language instead of the individual words. These words, phrases, and sentences are called “gestalts.” These gestalts are commonly known as “echolalia” or “scripting.” A child often begins by imitating whole phrases they hear in their environment, including media (T.V. shows, songs, etc.). For example, a gestalt language processor might use “ready, set, go” to express that they want to go outside. Important note: The language we model is not a gestalt - it’s just our language! Stage 1 gestalts are individual to the child. These phrases are not meant to be explicitly “taught”. Rather, they can be utilized to help caregivers and therapists learn how to model language during play. This 12-page handout packet includes examples of stage 1 gestalts for a variety of routines and play activities. Great for therapists or parents looking to model a wider variety of gestalts. Handouts come in both a color and printer-friendly version, and are great for hanging on the fridge as a daily reminder. Stage 1 gestalt topics include: -meal time -bath time -potty -transitions -bedtime -brushing teeth -getting dressed -TV time -farm toys -blocks -cars -play-doh -magnatiles -letter/number play -books -songs -peek-a-boo -tag/chase -tickles -rough play -self-advocacy -peer interaction -sick/hurt -greetings/farewells
Minimal Pairs Speech Therapy PDF worksheets you can download as a free speech therapy resource or speech therapy activity.
Echolalia in autism can be difficult. Find out about the types of echolalia and get practical tips to help your students with autism. Be sure to check out the links to free, important information and research to get therapy started on the right track!
Echolalia- Learn strategies for your Autism classroom. What echolalia is and how to reduce it with activities to decrease repetitive speech or non-authentic communication.
Additional activities to enrich your child's speech and language learning!
Enjoy this fall freebie and help your kiddos tackle those positional words! Included is a list in both Spanish and English positional words. ...
Remediation of a lateral /s/ takes patience and a step-by-step approach. I have had success using the ideas of Pamela Marshalla. This...
Resources, tips, and materials to help you, help children with autism
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The spoken word gives human’s an incredible advantage over other species, but for those that struggle with language processing, this “invisible difficulty,” can create countless challenges. What’s more, this problem often goes unnoticed and many of these students are misunderstood and mislabeled as inattentive, careless, lazy absent-minded, and defiant. What is a Language Processing Disorder? Language processing disorders are not uncommon, and it is a difficulty that impacts communication and social relations. This disorder can impact a student’s ability to understand language (receptive language) and/or express their thoughts (expressive language). Like many cognitive based challenges, it can manifest in a variety of ways. One student might struggle to outline their thoughts, while another might battle with accessing the right word or name from their memory banks, following a sequence of directives, or even maintaining attention. In addition, a student may experience difficulties with either receptive language or expressive language. Some struggle with a combination: expressive/receptive language disorder. Signs and Symptoms of Language Processing Difficulties There are a number of signs and symptoms that can serve as red flags for language processing problems. Common Expressive Language Difficulties: Develops the ability to speak later than most youngsters Struggles with weak vocabulary and learning new words Confusions with verb tenses Frustrates with word finding difficulties Troubles communicating thoughts Jumbles words and says things that are nonsensical Repeats themselves when telling stories or answering questions Difficulties expressing ideas in writing Common Receptive Language Difficulties: Appears disinterested or distracted when in conversation or social interactions Misinterprets or misunderstands verbal or written directives Appears shy or withdrawn Struggles understanding sarcasm or jokes Difficulties with reading comprehension Troubles telling jokes Getting Tested for Language Processing Disorders If the warning signs listed above describe a child, the next step is to pursue an evaluation. You can acquire testing with a local speech and language pathologist, or if the child is in school, one can request that the local public school conduct a free evaluation. Even if the child is in a private school, testing can be requested at your local school district. 12 Easy Treatment Options for Language Processing Disorders If a language disorder is present or suspected, individual sessions with a speech and language professional or educational therapist can help develop the needed skills. As another option, you can acquire tools that can help to develop these skills. Here are 12 different resources. If you select the title, you can learn more about these products. Speech and Language Bundle Following Directions Bundle Reversing Reversals Primary Making Inferences the Fun and Easy Way Word Shuffle Hey, What's the Big Idea The Main I-Deer 5 Ws Detectives Show Don't Tell Abstract Thinking and Multiple Meanings Categorizing, paragraph Building and Transitional Words Activities Memory Master I hope you found this blog helpful! If you have any questions, feel free to reach out and contact me at [email protected]. Cheers, Dr. Erica Warren Dr. Erica Warren is the author, illustrator, and publisher of multisensory educational materials at Good Sensory Learning. She is also the director of Learning to Learn and Learning Specialist Courses. · Blog: https://learningspecialistmaterials.blogspot.com/ · YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/warrenerica1 · Podcast: https://godyslexia.com/ · Store: http://www.Goodsensorylearning.com/ · Courses: http://www.learningspecialistcourses.com/ · Newsletter Sign-up: https://app.convertkit.com/landing_pages/69400 · Private Practice: Learning to Learn
Making lesson plans for speech therapy doesn't have to be hard. Using themes, let me show you how I plan my therapy sessions, and give you a free planning sheet to help you!
Expected and unexpected behaviors are terms I use with all my students to help show them what their behavior looks like in different situations.
Preschool opposites worksheets FREE printable. Teach your kids basic concepts with these pdf preschool worksheets.
This fun, free printable opposites matching game is great for reinforcing learning about antonyms. Useful with students in kindergarten through first grade.
As the school year is winding down and you are thinking about all of the new things to include in your daily routine next year keep reading!!! The Expanding Expression Tool is an AMAZING resource that has helped my students become not only better writers but better communicators too. The Expanding Expression Tool or EET is used as a multi-sensory approach to improve oral and written language. Okay...so what does it look like and how does it work? Let's check it out..... What it looks like?: How does it work?: Each part of the EET serves a purpose. Check out the chart below to see what each color stands for. How can you use this to improve oral and/or written language? 1st- Select an item 2nd- have a student describe it 3rd- introduce EET 4th- have the student describe the item again and be amazed!! Example: You show the student penguin. They may say it's an animal that lives in the cold. After introducing EET the student will be able to share a lot more about the penguin. They will be able to tell you..... green/group: Animal blue/do: swim, walk/waddle, eat, lay eggs what does it look like?: black and white what is it made of?: comes from an egg pink/parts: flippers, bill, feathers, neck, eyes, webbed feet, claws white/where: Antarctica, zoo what else do you know?: males sit on eggs, mates for life, waddle and swim As the students get used to this their overall oral and written language will improve tremendously. You can use this tool in a variety of ways including, direct instruction, para led station, writing center, homework and more!! After my students were comfortable with EET, I set up an EET station in my classroom in lieu of my traditional writing center. You can even differentiate within EET. You may have some students who are just working on stating 1 word answers, but you can also have students practice responding in full sentences. Student 1 Example: Green/Group: animal Student 2 Example: Green/Group: The penguin belongs to the animal group. Overall, EET has been an amazing tool for my students and a wonderful additional to my classroom. We use this resource but you can also check out Teachers Pay Teachers for more. Or you can check out the original kit here! I hope you are able to implement EET into your day next year!! Follow my blog with Bloglovin
This quick and easy way to teach positional words is super engaging to students! All you need is a solo cup, a bear manipulative, and a permanent marker! To prep this activity, you will need to draw a “door” on the solo cups. We call the cup “Mr. Bear’s House,” so it has a playful ... Read More about Positional Words
Noah and I have found several free apps for our Ipad that tie in rather nicely with our Around the House with Noah preschool theme. As always, I’m sharing them with the people I love the mos…
Is carryover a struggle for your older speech students? I'm sharing some ideas for articulation carryover activities in this post to help them find success.
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Updated 10/2014: STOP the presses!!! I just made all of this into an awesome "all in one tool"! Not only does it assess social language skills, but you can type into the assessment as you go and have it write up the report for you! Get more info about it here!! My
Happy Sunday! Here is my newest activity targeting simple analogies for preschoolers and early elementary students. This 12-page activity addresses analogies both receptively and expressively and uses kid-friendly graphics to help your students fill-in-the missing answer. This packet contains: Fill-in-the-blank cards for expressive task: Answer cards to pair with cards above for receptive task: I created this packet to fill a gap in my materials, as I have many preschool-aged with this goal, but sadly, few materials to address it (particularly with graphics)! Hope it proves to be a useful tool for your students as well! You can find Elementary, My Dear Analogies in my TPT store here Jenn
Improve student compliance by teaching first/then directions.
This post contains affiliate links. Positional Words are some of those concrete concepts that students need to be familiar with. They are a part of our every day vocabulary, especially in the classroom! “Sit beside her.” “Line up behind the door.” “Walk in front of the building.” These are just a few phrases I can ... Read More about Positional Words FREEBIE
The prompting hierarchy and how to use it in helping students learn new skills in speech therapy and the classroom.
