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Fricatives Speech Therapy: Eliminating Stopping of Fricative

Fricatives Speech Therapy: Eliminating Stopping of Fricatives For many children with speech delays, long sounds called fricatives are particularly difficult.  These are sounds that require continued air-flow, like /f/, /v/, /s/, /z/, “th”, and “sh”.  If your child has difficulty with all of these sounds, keep reading to

Speech and Language Activities (90+ Free Materials)

Get Instant Access to 90+ Speech Activities & Language Activities—For Free! We've consolidated all of our freebies onto one page!  Perfect for SLPs, parents, & other speech-language professionals! We have speech activities to help a child speak sounds more clearly.  We have language activities to help a

Nasal Emission Speech Therapy Activities and Ideas

What is Nasal Emission? Nasal emission is a type of speech error where air is forced through the nose while producing sounds that don't normally require nasal air flow.  When we say words with the /m/, /n/, or “ng” sounds, air comes through our nose. If a

Cycles Approach for Speech Therapy | Steps and Therapy Plan

What is the Hodson Cycles Approach to Speech Therapy? An amazing speech-language pathologist named Barbara Hodson created the cycles approach, sometimes called the Cycles Phonological Remediation Approach as a way to help children with many phonological processes make faster progress in speech therapy.  Hodson's research showed that

Free Speech Therapy Activities | PDFs, Games, & Materials

Free Speech Therapy Activities for Speech-Language Pathologists, Educators, and Caregivers: Looking for some free speech therapy activities to help you teach speech and language skills to children?  Enter you info in the box and we'll email you the password to the free materials library with more than 90

Phonological Processes: Definition, Examples, and Therapy

What Are Phonological Processes? Phonological processes are patterns of sound replacements that children use to simplify their speech.  When a child is young, he hears the speech sounds of the language used around him, but he can't yet produce all of them.  Children don't sound like adults when they

Speech Sound Resource Page

What Are Speech Sound Disorders? Most children naturally learn to say sounds correctly by hearing other people say them.  There are certain sounds that are typically acquired earlier and others that come a little later.  For example, it's perfectly normal for a small child to say "tat" for "cat"

5 Year Old Speech Checklist | Speech and Language Milestones

5-Year-Old Speech Checklist: Speech and Language Milestones This page is all about 5 year old speech and language skills.  Keep in mind that these milestones are based on research about typically-developing children but this information is not meant to diagnose a speech-language delay or disorder.  There

4 Year Old Speech Checklist: Speech and Language Milestones

4-Year-Old Speech Checklist: Milestones for Speech and Language This page is all about 4 year old speech and language skills.  Keep in mind that these milestones are based on research about typically-developing children but this information is not meant to diagnose a speech-language delay or disorder.  There

3 Year Old Speech Milestones Checklist

3 Year Old Speech Milestones What speech and language skills should a 3-year-old child have?  What does speech therapy for a 3-year-old look like?  This page includes the 3-year-old speech milestones as well as 3-year-old language milestones. Keep in mind that these milestones are based on research about