Free speech therapy worksheets and activities (articulation, receptive/expressive language) for speech-language pathologists, teachers, parents.

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This worksheet targets asking grammatically correct, semantically appropriate questions! Click here to download! Please consider donating a dollar or two if you want to see more SLP materials!

Ronnie was a well-liked seventh-grader, despite his quirkiness. His classmates accepted him and were understanding of his Asperger’s diagnosis. One day Ronnie was talking with his classmates in the restroom before class when his friend Seth began cussing in anger about his C in Math. Ronnie picked up on the cussing and associated it with being mad. The bell rang and Ronnie went on to his next class. As he sat down, he realized that he left his social studies book in his locker. His teacher, Miss Sanders, would not let him go back to his locker, and immediately Ronnie got angry and began to swear. Miss Sanders sent Ronnie to the dean’s office, leaving Ronnie perplexed as to what he did wrong. He thought it was acceptable to cuss when he was angry about something. He didn’t understand the “hidden curriculum” – in this case, that what is acceptable around fellow classmates may not be acceptable around teachers. Children with Asperger’s (AS) and High-Functioning Autism (HFA) have difficulty understanding the “hidden curriculum” in school and community environments. The hidden curriculum refers to the set of routines, social rules, tasks, or actions that “typical” children readily understand and use. Often considered to be a matter of common sense, the hidden curriculum is almost never directly taught, nonetheless it is a significant aspect of everyday life. The hidden curriculum covers a multitude of areas. Therefore, it is impossible to create a comprehensive list that applies to all children on the autism spectrum in all situations. The following is a brief list of hidden curriculum examples: Acceptable slang that may be used with your friends may not be acceptable when interacting with grown-ups. Do not argue with a policeman – even if you are right. Do not ask friends to do things that will get them in trouble. Do not ask to be invited to someone's party. Do not correct someone's grammar when he or she is angry. Do not draw violent scenes. Do not pick flowers from someone's garden without permission, even you want to give them to someone. Do not sit in a chair that someone else is sitting in. Do not tell someone that his or her house is much dirtier than it should be. Do not tell someone that he or she has bad breath. Do not touch someone's hair even if you think it is pretty. Do not try to do what actors do on television or the movies. These shows are not the same as real life. It is absolutely impolite to interrupt someone when he or she is talking, unless it is an emergency. Never break laws – no matter what your reason. Not all people you are unfamiliar with are strangers you can’t trust. You may not know your bus driver or your police officer, but these are people who help you. People are not always supposed to say what they are thinking. People do not always want to know the honest truth when they ask you a question. For example, your best friend does not want to hear that she looks fat in a new dress she just bought for the high school dance. Speak to teachers in a pleasant tone of voice because they will respond to you in a more positive manner. Teachers do not all have the same rules. One teacher may allow gum in the classroom, while the other may issue consequences for chewing gum. Treat all authority figures with respect. What may be acceptable at your house may not be acceptable at a friend’s house. For example, although it is acceptable to put your feet up on the table at your home, your friend’s mom may be upset if you do that in their home. When a teacher gives you a warning, it means that she wants the behavior to stop and that most likely there will be a consequence if the behavior occurs again. When a teacher tells another student to stop talking, it is not an appropriate time for you to start talking to your neighbor. When the teacher is scolding another student, it is not the best time to ask the teacher a question. ==> Parenting System that Significantly Reduces Defiant Behavior in Teens with Aspergers and High-Functioning Autism Other examples of hidden curriculum would include being neat and punctual, completing work, conducting oneself courteously, cooperating, exercising restraint, keeping busy, showing allegiance to both teachers and classmates, and trying to do one’s best. Since the hidden curriculum is not understood instinctively in the mind of a child with AS or HFA, parents and teachers must provide direct instruction to facilitate skill acquisition. For example, the parent can write one hidden curriculum item on a whiteboard each morning and introduce this item to her child as a first activity. Once the child understands the hidden curriculum item, he can be asked to indicate how it will impact him at home and/or school. Here’s an example of this method: Write on the whiteboard, “You should look your teacher in the eyes when she is talking to you.” Why? Because it demonstrates respect, and it shows the teacher that you are listening. How will this impact you? You may feel uncomfortable at first since looking people in the eyes is sometimes difficult for you. Next, parent and child roleplay this scenario (i.e., the parent speaks directly to the child while the child maintains eye contact and nods his head to acknowledge that he understands what is being said). In summary, the “hidden curriculum” is a set of important social skills that everyone knows, but no one is taught. This includes assumed rules, parent expectations, teacher expectations, idioms and metaphors, etc. Especially with younger kids, the hidden curriculum is often discussed in terms of social cues and particular mannerisms (e.g., understanding classroom order, knowing to wait their turn, understanding the difference between playground-appropriate language and classroom-appropriate language, etc.). In this context, the hidden curriculum is made up of things that children just pick up on naturally. However, understanding the hidden curriculum is very difficult for children with a deficit in social skills, especially those on the autism spectrum. Thus, these skills must be taught. More resources for parents of children and teens with High-Functioning Autism and Asperger's: ==> Launching Adult Children with Asperger's and High-Functioning Autism: Guide for Parents Who Want to Promote Self-Reliance ==> Teaching Social Skills and Emotion Management to Children and Teens with Asperger's and High-Functioning Autism ==> Parenting Children and Teens with High-Functioning Autism: Comprehensive Handbook ==> Unraveling The Mystery Behind Asperger's and High-Functioning Autism: Audio Book ==> Parenting System that Reduces Problematic Behavior in Children with Asperger's and High-Functioning Autism ==> How to Prevent Meltdowns and Tantrums in Children with Aspergers and HFA

Wow! It's been a crazy 2 weeks! My students love the Categories and Vocalic /r/ Bingo so I decided to create a Wh- Questions Bingo. I am constantly looking for materials with wh- questions. The students had so much fun playing. The Wh- Questions Bingo allowed me to acquire a lot of data too! This download includes 4 game boards and 3 pages of bingo chips. Each bingo board has twenty-four wh- questions. Step 1: Print and laminate Bingo Cards and Bingo Chips. Step 2: Print an extra bingo card. Laminate and cut out each wh- question from this card. Step 3: Put the cut out wh- questions in a ziplock bag. Step 3: Cut out each Bingo Chips. Step 4: Start by giving each student a Bingo Card and 10 Bingo Chips. Step 5: Pull the first wh- question out of the ziplock bag Step 6: Have each student give you 1 answer. Step 7: The 1st student to get 5 in a row WINS! Wh- Questions Bingo is available on my TPT page! Click Here! I would love to hear what you think! What other Bingo boards would you like me to create....more arctic?!? Hope you have fun playing BINGO with your kiddies! : )

Summarizing is tricky skill for kids of all ages, but I'm sharing a tip to make summarizing easy for older students. Read this post to get the full scoop!

I am so excited to welcome Gabrielle Charron (superhearoslp), a Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) in Ottawa, Canada with a passion for working with children with hearing loss to learn to listen and speak. Gabrielle works at a hospital-based clinic, exclusively providing auditory verbal therapy (AVT) to young children and their families following cochlear implant activation or hearing aid fitting. She is also nearing completion of her Listening and Spoken Language Specialist (LSLS) certification

Speech therapy compare and contrast examples, worksheets, and teaching tips, plus my best speech therapy IEP goals for classroom success!

Frustrations: 1. Although my fertility journey is over, I apparently still have a very difficult time being at an extended gathering with a group of pregnant women. Especially when they are talking about how "if you keep trying it will happen!" 2. My rule-following Marvel Girl's classroom seems to full of "Negative Behavioral Supports" and

Tips for eliciting /k/ and /g/ in speech therapy and activities for generalization.

Welcome to Teaching Talking.We are here to give you quality, organized and original printable Speech Therapy activities without all that stay-up-until-2am hard work. All our products are digital downloads. Once you checkout, your download is available instantly. No more last minute Sunday evening scrambles to get organized for school!

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Receptive language is the comprehension of language input. Learn all about it, plus X easy activities to improve receptive language delays!

Gestalt Language Processing Overview in 1 page format. Intro to GLP and Natural Language Acquisition. Perfect for SLPs, teachers, therapy centers, parents or anyone that works with an autistic child that is a gestalt language processor.

Additional activities to enrich your child's speech and language learning!

Here is another worksheet addressing the language concept of "not." This is a difficult concept to target, which is why I have made so many materials to work on it! Lots of repetitive practice is needed. You could also work on this using a set of real life objects (e.g., "Give me everything that is NOT blue. Give me all of the dolls that are NOT boys"). Click here to download! Please consider donating a dollar or two if you want to see more SLP materials!

Get your kids up and moving with positional words activities! This unit is full of activities from mini lessons to a quick assessment!

Check out this ultimate list of over 200 free speech therapy materials for all of your needs! Save your money for what really matters!

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High quality speech therapy materials are in high-demand. The speech-language pathologists I know who have started businesses are among creative groups of people I've ever had the pleasure of interacting with. Remember back in grad school - when you had more than enough time to carefully color in and perfectly laminate your speech therapy materials

Make Your SLP Life Easier with these 5 free AAC Resources. After attending outstanding presentations on AAC at the ASHA convention in Los Angeles, I have to let you in on some of my biggest aha moments and takeaways.

Prompt versus cue - Have you ever wondered the difference? Prompting and cueing are critical components of teaching new skills.

Many Speech-Language Pathologists stepping into teletherapy may be unsure of how to address pragmatic language goals using this new mode of service delivery. Former "go to" resources like board games, books, and tabletop activities may no longer be relevant when working with students virtually. It can be somewhat difficult to suddenly identify a new repertoire of activities to target goals for maintaining conversation, making inferences, identifying nonverbal communication, and more.When I first

Speech Therapy labels to organize all your materials and printables by season, month, or theme in your storage area or Speech room.

Need ideas for getting more repetitions during articulation therapy? Here are some articulation activities speech therapy high-trial ideas!

Speech therapy freebies for SLPs and clipart freebies for educators. Find pediatric tools for language, articulation, social skills, and more!

As SLPs it's important to keep up-to-date with EBP. I've gathered together 8 of the best sites for you to get EBP info to improve your therapy practice!

This past week we've been enjoying toys and games during our therapy sessions. With COVID it's been awhile since we've sat closer at a table and shared game pieces so this week was so much fun for the kids and myself! Over the years I have created a wide variety of game companions and mats that can be used to target a variety of speech and language skills while also playing with toys or games. Each activity is available separately but I have also bundled most of these Toys and Game companions on TPT for a discount! All the pictures below are linked. Check them out! Playdough Mats First up, playdough mats! I have a range of articulation and language mats that make planning mixed groups super easy. Pop it Companions This is a new companion I made this year when the Pop it craze took over my kids. They love this one! Play N' Say Mats Uno is always requested with my kids in grades 2nd-5th. These mats make it easy to target speech sounds while also playing. When they play a card they must say the word on the color mat that matches. Speech Builders I printed and laminated these strips and use them with a variety of blocks. Duplo, legos and hashtag blocks, they love them all! While most of the toys and games we've played with are physical games, we have many boom card games we play too. Tic-Tac-Talk This is an easy one for the beginning or the end of a session. We always get a lot of trials in when we play this game. Articulation Four-in-a-Row I have an articulation and a language version of this game. It's similar to Connect 4 except players can put their pieces anywhere on the board. First to four in a row wins! Game Companions This file has open-ended mats for a large variety of games. So many ways to play! Guess What? A little while ago I made an Articulation Mini-Objects kit and we use them to play many different games. This Guess What poster is an easy way to play using a mystery box or bag. We hide objects and the kids ask questions to figure out what's inside. Some of my kids need a little more help than the poster so we may use these Mystery Box mats to give them an idea of what could be inside the box. For my preschoolers I have a collection of toddler toys/games we like to play with to increase overall language skills. These Vocabulary Parking Lots are free and so much fun to "park" our cards on different words. Also for my younger kids or for my kids who are working to expand language skills we incorporate Aided Language Mats into our play. We place the mats near the toys and point to the words as we use them or try to incorporate these common words while we play. Play-Based Speech and Language Therapy Another FREE resource, are these play-based cards that give ideas, tips or tricks to target speech and/or language skills during play. These are super helpful to send home to parents for home practice too. That's a wrap for toys and games. We played this past week but we often incorporate these toys and games throughout the year!

Articulation cards are a staple in Speech Therapy rooms. Articulation Flash Cards can be used in so many ways with preschoolers and elementary students... buuuttt sometimes they can get boring and repetitive. Check out these articulation card ideas to bring some new and exciting speech therapy activities into your therapy room! You can use these ideas in group therapy or in one-on-one sessions or even send them home for easy articulation homework ideas! • WHAT’S THERE?: Place 5 cards around the

Describing, categories, object functions, and other attributes in speech therapy: The research, therapy ideas, goal suggestions and more!

Welcome! If you are reading this and have been searching for teletherapy tutorials, ideas, and resources, you have come to the right place!! This post was co-authored by SLP, Holly Rosensweig of Spiffy Speech and SLP, Lucy Stone of The Speech Express . While we wrote this with SLPs in mind, many

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Planning for Teletherapy can be so challenging and time consuming! Here is a list of all of my favorite tele-therapy websites to help make planning easier!

Here is a list of must have SLP supplies you should have on hand to help you stay organized and plan speech therapy sessions.

A much-requested update on how my clinical fellowship (CF) for SLP is going. Answering your questions and filling you in on the best and worst parts so far.