Need some new tips for eliciting the L sound? This detailed guide has over 100 cues, word lists, assessment probes, and checklists to ensure speech therapy success.
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This engaging resource targeting fluency and stuttering for speech therapy includes visuals, printables, homework, self-advocacy scenarios, handouts, informal assessment tools, and more! The speech tools targeted are: slow rate, full breath, pausing, stretchy speech, light contact and easy onset. This packet helps your students in identifying their speech into 1 of 3 levels: bumpy, using speech tools, or smooth. There are visuals for the following types of disfluencies: repetition, block, interjection, prolongation, and circumlocution. This packet includes the following, low-prep fluency materials: •Visuals: Please see the preview images for examples of these visuals. They are a great way for younger clients to visualize: 1) the level of fluency of their speech, 2) types of disfluencies, and 3) speech tools to improve their speech. I have included visuals with cars and without cars. This allows you to teach your clients (using the visuals with cars) and to have you students self-cue by driving their car along the appropriate mat. After the visuals are cards for how to perform each speech tool. These can be printed on the back of the visual mats if desired. •Handouts: There is a total of 12, parent-friendly, carryover worksheets included! These detail 5 different speech tools and ideas for targeting them at home! In the handout section is also worksheets for you to use in therapy! There are great tools and visuals to help you teach your students how to effectively implement their speech tools! Includes pacing strips, pausing worksheets, easy onset slide visual and deep breathing visual. •Informal Assessment Tools: There are 3 easy to print informal assessment tools. Two are pre/post measures and one is a more thorough fluency checklist. •Word/Phrase/Sentence Strips: Use these with the visual mats (as described above). They cover the length of the mats (spacing the letters apart) as a cue for your students to slow down their speech. There are 24 strips for each level. •Stuttering Myth vs Fact Cards: There are 17 cards and 1 blank card. Each has either a myth or fact about stuttering. They are great conversation starters! •Relaxation Idea Half Sheets: 3 ideas for starting a therapy session relaxed! •Self-Advocacy Situations Worksheet: Provides 7 situations. Great for students who need practice explaining their stutter to others! To see more pictures and example pages, check out my blog post about this item here. Feel free to email the Speechy Musings team at [email protected] with any questions! ☟ Let's stay in touch! Sign up for my email newsletter and follow me on social media to hear about freebies, new product releases, and helpful ideas for your therapy room! ☟ Sign up for my email newsletter! • Join my Facebook group! • Follow me on Instagram and Facebook!
Feel confident eliciting the SH sound with any child on your caseload. With 100 cues, word lists, assessment probes, and checklists, the SH Sound Handbook has you covered.
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Identifying students' stuttering impediments can be tricky. This blog post dives into how to do an effective stuttering assessment in speech therapy!
This informal speech and language screening and assessment is used to assess and track data for one, two, and three-step directions. Use this criterion-referenced assessment tool as a screener, informal assessment, or progress monitoring tool for following directions skills to help you assess and track your student's therapy progress or determine a treatment starting point. Use the included goals to help you write your IEP findings and goals. This product includes: 1. Two assessments are included for lower-level NONVERBAL students. One assessment includes five nonverbal one-step commands. The second assessment includes ten nonverbal one-step commands. I use these with my younger students who are on the autism spectrum and are not yet using expressive language. 2. Cueing step by step guide with examples that can easily be shared with parents for: physical prompting modeling gestural cues 3. Sample IEP goals with cueing strategies incorporated. The following assessments are included for students who are functioning at a VERBAL level. Ten questions are included for each of the following: One-step directions Two-step directions Three-step directions After the screening, use the included data tracking graph to plot the student’s present levels of performance. Once your determined goal has been targeted in therapy, give the same level assessment as a post-test and plot the progress on the graph to show at your IEP meetings. Follow my store, SPEECH DREAMS, to see new products first
This mega-packet for fluency is 56 pages long! You can find it in my Teachers Pay Teachers Store here. The speech tools targeted are: slow rate, full breath, pausing, stretchy speech, light contact, easy onset, and circumlocution. This packet helps your students in identifying their speech into 1 of 3 levels: bumpy, using speech tools, or smooth. […]
Do you want to track progress WITHOUT having to print a stack of papers? This SLP tool includes stimuli for R Blends to track progress in WORDS, PHRASES, SENTENCES, and PARAGRAPHS. It also includes an editable PDF data form so you don't have to print that either! Save time, energy, and printing!! This tool for R Blends includes: WORD level: 20 picture targets (10 initial position, 10 medial position) PHRASE level: 20 phrases that are 2-3 words in length with picture (10 initial position, 10 medial position) SENTENCE level: 20 sentences of varied length with pictures (10 initial position, 10 medial position) PARAGRAPH level: 2 paragraphs that include 10 targets each (1 initial position, 1 medial position). You can choose to include prompts underlined or not underlined. EDITABLE PDF DATA SHEET-simply input data either on the computer with an editable form or print. WHY NO PRINT? ALWAYS have it with you! NO PRINTING! Perfect for on-the-go therapy! No storage required! As always, please contact me with any questions at [email protected]. Thank you so much! Erin Larsen ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Let's connect! Instagram Facebook Pinterest
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I have previously written a blog post on how I collect data, but I am sharing again! This system has worked for me for two years, with a little refinement here and there.
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Check this post out for some simple ideas to implement in therapy with young stuttering clients. Post includes The Speech Guy and Speech Roads Stuttering therapy with kids is so tricky! There is this balance between teaching awareness of the stutter and lowering emotional reactivity to the stutter that I am still working on mastering. It is different for each child and you really have to get a feel for how they will react. I only had 3 stuttering kids on my caseload this past year and they were as different as different can be. I tried doing the therapy in a group and it worked out okay but man it was tricky since they had such individual strengths and weaknesses, planning their sessions was a bear! Here are a few little lessons that really worked for all 3 of them (they were all 6-7 years old). The Speech Guy Two of my three stuttering kids had started to develop fairly severe secondary behaviors during stuttering moments. These are behaviors that happen as the child tries to get past the stuttering moment and can include funny facial and/or body movements to try to help them out of the stutter. Examples include eye twitches, loss of eye contact, slapping the leg, rocking the head forward, clicking the mouth, arrested breath, avoding words that are hard to say and a lot more. It honestly freaked me out when I evaluated them because I had no idea how to work with stuttering, especially stuttering that was severe enough to present with secondary behaviors. My supervisor at the district suggested I talk about the different parts that we use for speech and how they affect our talking. We found this Speech Guy on therapsimplicity.com. It was an awesome starting point for these kids and a fun activity to send home. We talked about each of the parts and how we use them for speech (mouth, nose, eyes, ears, voicebox, lungs) and the funny things that happen sometimes when we get "stuck" (raising eye brows, wiggling nose, tensing mouth, arrested breath, etc). The kids got to color their speech guy and the parts and take them home and tell their parents about them. Speech Roads My stuttering kids are fairly young and I was trying to come up with a good way for them to listen and evaluate stuttering behaviors. I drew these little "speech roads" during our lesson when I was trying to describe different types of "bumpy" speech to them. They really latched on to the road and we ended up using them a lot in our sessions. I cut them apart and had the kids hold up the speech road (smooth, bumpy or road block) that matched how the person was talking. Once they could identify what speech road I was using I had them listen to themselves and evaluate their own speech. I made copies that they could take home and practice evaluating theirs and other's speech.
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Today, we welcome back Vicki Clarke with more helpful information on conducting AAC assessments. If you work with individual who are at the early stages of communicative development, this post is f…
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More AAC assessment tools have become available in recent years (and they keep growing!). One thing to take note of is that dynamic assessment is key for best practice when evaluating the pediatric population. In this post, we also share links to various AAC evaluation and progress measures.
At the beginning of every school year, I like to take mass baselines for all of my students so that I have a good clean idea on where they are toward meeting the goals set for them on their IEPs. Maybe they had a summer miracle or maybe they’ve regressed a little. Today I’m going […]
This blog post shares six SLP supplies you need for organizing your speech therapy materials so you can work smarter!
You've received a referral to assess the language abilities of a school aged child with suspected language difficulties. The child has not been assessed before so you know you’ll need a comprehensive language test to look at the child’s ability to recall sentences, follow directions, name words, as well as perform a number of other
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This phonological awareness screening tool is perfect for establishing baseline data and identifying areas of need in the area of phonological awareness for early elementary school students. This screening can be used in speech therapy or for intervention specialists / classroom teachers. This informal assessment tool gathers information for the following phonology skills: Rhyming Identification (with yes/no) Rhyming Production (generating a rhyming word) Sentence Segmenting (number of words in a sentence) Syllable Segmenting (number of syllables in a word) Sound Segmenting (number of sounds in a word) Initial Sound Isolation (producing the first phoneme in a word) Medial Sound Isolation (producing the middle phoneme in a word) Final Sound Isolation (producing the final phoneme in a word) Syllable Deletion (deleting one syllable from a word) Sound Deletion (deleting one phoneme from a word) Syllable Blending (blending syllables into words) Sound Blending (blending phonemes into words) Looking for targeted practice in the area of phonological awareness? Click here to check out these phonological awareness worksheets and flashcards.
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