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Waiting Cards: Language-Boosting Alternatives for Screen Time

You’re driving in the car and your kid is growing antsy. Quickest solution: Hand him your smart phone! You’re waiting for your food a restaurant and the little ones are throwing the sugar packets at each other. Easiest solution: Turn on some cartoons on the tablet! It’s a rainy

SOTB2: Non-Verbal Speech Therapy with Guest Host Lauren Laur

Welcome to the second episode of Speech Therapy: Storm of the Brains! I'm your host, Carrie Clark and today I will be brainstorming therapy ideas for a non-verbal child who makes sounds but doesn't have any real words. Today I'm joined by my guest host, Lauren Laur from the Expressly Speaking Teachers Pay

How to Use Sock Puppets to Improve Grammar (Pronouns and Verb Tenses)

This fun therapy activity will let you work on grammar skills like pronouns and verb tenses while you’re playing with sock puppets. It’s cheap, it’s easy, and it’s SUPER fun! Check it out: Materials: Two Sock Puppets: Use tube socks and hot glue eyes and hair onto them. Make

Back-To-School Speech Therapalooza!!!

The Back-To-School Speech Therapalooza was a hit!!  Watch the replay below and scroll down for the links: Carrie Clark www.SpeechAndLanguageKids.com How to Declutter and Organize your Speech Therapy Space Productivity (Computer) Tools for Speech Therapists Free Speech Therapy Games and Materials Become a Member of The Speech

Establishing Joint Attention: Therapy for Children Who Aren’t Tuned In

Establishing and Improving Joint Attention in Children Join the Hub to Access (Free Trial) Johnny doesn’t pay attention to other people.  He doesn’t notice the other children that play around him and when an adult tries to get his attention,

Resources for Speech-Language Pathology Assistants (SLPAs)

What is an SLPA? **This first part is about the roles of an SLPA. For resources, materials, and support: scroll down! Here’s what the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA) defines as a speech-language pathology assistant (SLPA): “Speech-language pathology assistants are support personnel who, following academic coursework, fieldwork, and

Ultimate Guide to Teaching Written Narratives by Grade Level

Breaking Down the Common Core Standards for Working on Written Narratives The common core standards are the set of curriculum guidelines that the department of education has set forth as a method of making sure that all students are taught the skills needed to be successful in college or

Dyslexia Speech Therapy: How SLPs Can Help with Dyslexia

Dyslexia Speech Therapy: How SLPs Can Help with Dyslexia Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that is neurobiological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the phonological

Echolalia: What is Echolalia and How Can We Help?

What is Echolalia? Echolalia Meaning: Echolalia is the term used to describe when a child repeats or imitates what someone else has said. Echolalia Examples: Immediate Echolalia: Sometimes a child repeats your question instead of answering it.  If you say, “Do you want a

Early Childhood Podcast Episode

More Resources for Speech-Language Pathologists: Looking for more therapy ideas and resources to help you provide the BEST services to your clients?  Join us in The SLP Solution, our membership program for speech-language professionals!  Inside the membership, you'll find: Step-By-Step Guides for teaching a variety of speech/language/communication skills Pre-Made

Idiom, Figurative Language Speech Therapy Activities

How to Teach Idioms and Figurative Language to Kids and Teens Have you been bending over backwards trying to teach your students idioms? Are they left high and dry when idioms are used in their classrooms? Well I’m going to take the bull by the horns and knock your

How to Teach a Child to Form Narratives

Summary: Explicitly teach narrative structure to children: Introduction: settings and characters Details/Body: Use first, next, then, and last to describe the details in order.  Make sure the problem is presented in this section.  The solution can go in here as well or in the next section. Conclusion: The

Phonological Awareness Hierarchy, Skills, and Goals

What is Phonological Awareness? Phonological awareness refers to a set of skills that children typically develop in the preschool years as pre-reading skills. These include skills where the child begins to understand how words are made up of individual sounds and those sounds can be

Teaching Present Progressive “-ing” Words for Kids

How to Teach Present Progress "-ing" Words to Children: The present progressive “-ing” grammatical marker is the one we tack on the end of a verb to say that the action is currently happening. For example, we might say “he is running” or “she is flying”. When a

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Halloween Speech Therapy Activities

Halloween Activities for Speech and Language Halloween is almost here and children everywhere are getting excited about costumes and candy!  Now is a great time to use the excitement of Halloween to get kids excited about working on speech and language skills.  Here are some Halloween activities that will

Vocabulary Resource Page

Vocabulary Activities for Children:  How to Boost Vocabulary Skills Vocabulary refers to all of the words that we know.  There are four different types of vocabulary: 1. Listening Vocabulary: Words you understand if you hear someone else say them. 2. Speaking Vocabulary: Words you are able to use during

Functional Communication: Goals and Speech Therapy Ideas

What is Functional Communication? Functional communication refers to the most basic of communication skills. This type of communication gets one's basic wants and needs known, such as "I want that", "I am hurt", or "I need to use the bathroom". These are not complex

Literacy Resource Page

  What is Literacy? Literacy refers to any reading or writing skills.  Children with speech and language delays often have difficulty with literacy skills as well.  Children who have difficulty pronouncing or understanding certain speech sounds may have difficulty with reading and writing those sounds as well.  This can