For children who say more than 50 words and need help with a variety of speech and language skills.

• Step-By-Step Guides for teaching 39 different speech and language skills including skills from the following categories: early communication skills, vocabulary, grammar, questions, speech sounds, and social skills (See Below for Full List).
• Worksheets and visual aids for each guide that you can complete at home with your child or send home with your families if you are a speech-language pathologist.
• Instructions for how to choose skills to target and how to set up your home speech/language program or your therapy program; data collection sheets; developmental checklists so you can see what skills your child should have at his/her age; and Sample IEP Goals.
• Bonus Content (If you Choose the Artic Card Program) – Sets of articulation cards and homework handouts for every speech sound in the English language along with step-by-step instructions on how to do articulation therapy and teach a new speech sound.  Includes worksheets, activities, handouts, speech screeners, flashcards for individual sounds, plans for increasing carry-over/generalization, and more!  Perfect for speech-language pathologists who work with many kids or a parent of a child who needs help figuring out how to improve a child’s speech sounds.

• Early Communication Skills

  •  How to engage a baby to promote good language skills
  •  How to get a child to respond to sound/voice
  •  How to get a child to imitate actions
  •  How to get a child to respond to his name

• Vocabulary Guides

  •  How to teach a child a new word
  •  How to jump start a late talker
  •  How to use sign language with a late talker
  •  How to use a word web to expand a child’s vocabulary
  •  How to teach a child a spatial concept
  •  How to teach a child descriptors
  •  How to improve a child’s word retrieval skills

• Grammar Guides

  •  How to teach a child to use the possessive ‘s
  •  How to teach a child to use the plural –s
  •  How to teach a child to use irregular plurals
  •  How to teach a child to use the present progressive “-ing”
  •  How to teach a child to use the pronouns “he” and “she”
  •  How to teach a child to use the past tense verbs
  •  How to teach a child to use articles
  •  How to teach a child to use the conjunction “and”
  •  How to increase a child’s length of utterance

• Question Guides

  •  How to teach a child to answer yes/no questions
  •  How to teach a child to answer “what” questions
  •  How to teach a child to answer “where” questions
  •  How to teach a child to answer “who” questions
  •  How to teach a child to answer “when” questions
  •  How to teach a child to answer “why” questions
  •  How to teach a child to answer “how” questions
  •  How to teach a child to ask a question with good word order

• Speech Sound Guides

  •  How to teach a child a single sound
  •  How to teach a child the /r/ sound
  •  How to teach a child a class of sounds
  •  How to teach a child not to mumble
  •  How to fix final consonant deletion

• Social Skill Guides

  •  How to teach a child to understand and follow directions
  •  How to teach a child to do pretend play
  •  How to teach a child to take turns with others
  •  How to teach a child to self-calm from a meltdown
  •  How to teach a child to stay on topic
  •  How to use a social story to help a child with a language delay

• Written by Speech-Language Pathologist Carrie Clark, CCC-SLP.  Carrie Clark is a speech-language pathologist who has worked in the schools and in private practice.  She is a mother of a beautiful baby boy and works to spread information about speech and language delays and disorders through her website at www.SpeechAndLanguageKids.com

• SLPs, reduce your planning time by using pre-made lesson plans and help your students make faster progress by sending home worksheets and handouts that will allow for easier home practice.