This post outlines an evidence-based approach for parent-coaching that you can use in your early intervention sessions, inc. a free handout.

Hands-On Therapy ideas to build Speech and Language using LEGOs to target following directions, basic concepts, attributes and more!

Early intervention (EI) goals for speech therapy with FREE goal bank and helpful tips! Read for an overview of how to use our goal writing formula to confidently create EI goals for your clients.

This post outlines an evidence-based approach for parent-coaching that you can use in your early intervention sessions, inc. a free handout.

Learn how to provide early intervention in a teletherapy setting, including the benefits of virtual speech therapy, the structure for parent coaching, and tons of activity ideas.

Learn how to provide early intervention in a teletherapy setting, including the benefits of virtual speech therapy, the structure for parent coaching, and tons of activity ideas.

Check out this blog post for tips and ideas for using a "what's in the bag?" activity to support early language skills in your EI sessions.

Parent education is such an important part of early intervention. If you know me at all you know I love a good handout, so I'm excited to share with you some EI handouts for communication

Wondering how to use songs in speech therapy? Music and songs are a perfect way to keep babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and even early elementary students engaged and learning. Using music is one of my favourite early intervention speech therapy activities that can be done in clinic, in schools, and at home. BONUS: it is such an easy speech therapy homework activity because parents and families can listen to music in the car, while making supper, at home - ANYTIME!Of course, music and songs aren

Feel confident you're delivering effective early intervention and parent coaching sessions with the Early Intervention Handbook.

Free teletherapy activities: Use these digital, no print resources whether you are doing face-to-face speech therapy or teletherapy!

Make Basic Concepts Fun With These Simple Activities by Speech and Language at Home. What are Basic Concepts and What Makes Them Important? Words that describe the physical world are generally considered “basic concepts,” and they’re incredibly important building blocks for language development and

This post outlines an evidence-based approach for parent-coaching that you can use in your early intervention sessions, inc. a free handout.

Want to use verbal routines in parent-coaching sessions, but not sure how? Read all about verbal routines, and grab your free handout!

Toy cars are great for developing early language skills. I've shared 5 ways you can use toy cars to support early language in your therapy sessions.

In this post, discover more than 10 easy hands-on speech crafts and learn how to use them to make speech therapy motivating and fun.

A list of toys that help toddlers talk from an Early Intervention therapist. Learn which toys help with speech and language development.

Today I’m linking up with Simply Speech’s “What’s in Your EI bag?” Linky. Check it out!!!! I enjoy working with the “little guys” so much! Maybe it’s because so much change and development occurs in such a sort time or maybe it’s just because these little guys are just so darn cute! Either way, they […]

In this speecyh therapy for toddlers course Teach Me To Talk - The Therapy Manual, learn the tips, tricks, and tools used by professionals to teach,

Check out this post for 8 engaging activities for encouraging symbolic sounds and exclamatory words in your early intervention sessions.

These Early Intervention Communication Development Handouts have been created to help build parents, educators and other health professionals knowledge of early communication development and help them identify when to refer to a Speech Language Pathologist. Useful as either handouts or posters, the Early Intervention Communication Development Handouts provide a simple to understand guide to important communication milestones. Each handout outlines key language, speech and social skills that should be achieved by each age group, as well as FAQ's for parents on the back. In this pack, you will find handouts for the following age groups: 12 months 18 months Two years Three years Four years Have a question about this product? Don't hesitate to send me a message.

We like to use a lot of games in speech therapy and Jenga is one of the favorites! However, it can be time consuming to have to set up and too difficult for some kids. I came up with these three alternative therapy games that you can play using Jenga blocks.

It's no secret that I love toys and including play into my therapy sessions. If you haven't already downloaded my FREE Play-Based Speech Therapy Homework you can download it HERE! One toy that I use often but have never really included is a shape sorter. Sometimes this one may seem a little "babyish" but I am always surprised by my kiddos who want to play with it. This toy can be used to target many language goals and I thought I'd put together a little list of ten goals you can target with a shape sorter. I usually bring it out with my Pre-K-Kinder population or my younger students who have autism. Please know these are just general ideas, really the possibilities are endless and you may need to adjust to what your student needs. Here are some ideas of how to use a shape sorter to target language skills! First is obvious, naming or identifying colors. Now with this particular sorter, I am limited to five colors but usually, that is a good number to start with. You can give directions such as "Give me a purple block." or ask questions "What color is the triangle?" to target this goal. Next is requesting! This is a goal I work on often, many of my kiddos enjoy independent or parallel play and are used to grabbing what they want. But often I want to encourage cooperative play where they acknowledge a partner playing with them, not just next to them. I will hold the sorter bucket with the blocks and put the top in front of the student. Or I may hold all the blocks but give them the bucket with the top. Then prompt them to request what they want using as much detail as possible. My end goal would be for them to verbalize "I want a red square please!" or "Can I have the purple circle?" but we will work up to that with maybe just verbalizing or signing "more" or "please" at first. You may have to use some more structure when playing to target following directions by withholding some of the blocks. You could maybe give your student half the blocks and you keep half. Give them directions while handing one of your blocks such as "Put this block in the bucket" or "Stack this block on the star". Understanding quantities can be tricky for my younger kiddos. With the blocks, you can work on understanding "more", "some", "all" and "none". You can sort the blocks into two unequal groups and ask which group has more. You can instruct the student to put all the blocks in the bucket. You can ask the student to give you "some" blocks. You can show them an empty bucket and ask how many are inside. This one can go hand-in-hand with following directions. Prompt the student to give you a block with negation. For example "Find a block that is NOT red" or "Give me a block that is NOT round". You can use the top of sorter to match or you can put a set of blocks in a row and encourage your student to match them up with another set of blocks as shown in the picture. Positional Words, Spatial Concepts, or prepositions...whatever you call them they are all essentially the same and you can use the sorter to target them! The easiest positional words to target with the sorter are "in", "out", "on", "off", "under" and "over". You can either have the student follow your direction "Put the square on the triangle" or answer a question "Where is the orange block?" while holding it over or under another object/block. Take turns putting the blocks in, taking them out, requesting, lining them up, naming them, counting them...any of the skills you are working with! Count the blocks, it may be easiest to put them all in a straight line to help work on one-to-one correspondence when counting. For older students (end of kinder, 1st grade), you can use the blocks to count by 5's or 10's. And last but not least you can work on naming or identifying the shapes. Ask the student "What shape is this?" while pointing to the block. Request a block by naming the shape such as "Can I have a star?". If your student is good with naming/identifying the basic shapes work on the attributes instead. For example "What shape has three points?" or "Give me a shape that has four sides". That's it! One little toy and so many possibilities!

BUNDLE! LET'S GO! BOOK & VISUAL LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT JIGSAW FOR GESTALT LANGUAGE PROCESSORS Autism, Gestalt language processors, sentence, SPED, building, Speech Therapy, special education, early intervention, literacy, GLP, NLA, Natural language acquisition BOOK: 'LET'S GO' is an important phrase for helping children communicate where they would like to go. This book helps gestalt language processors to use natural language acquisition to learn the phrase, common everyday locations and apply their knowledge to everyday life. Mitigable gestalt - let's go + words/phrases. VISUAL LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT JIGSAW: This jigsaw uses play to support children with natural language acquisition and reading. Mitigable gestalt - let's go + words/phrases. Children can use different combinations to create the 'Let's go' phrase. Ideal for Gestalt Language Processors. Mitigable gestalt - let's go + words/phrases. Suitable for all stages but particularly suitable for stage 2 and 3 GLP! Uses visuals to support visual learners and autistic children. Can can be used over and over! Includes: 27 location pieces 14 editable jigsaw pieces 19 'and' pieces for extending sentences for children at stages 4-6.

Parent education is such an important part of early intervention. If you know me at all you know I love a good handout, so I'm excited to share with you some EI handouts for communication

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So many kiddos have WH question goals… in some form or another. The ability to answer WH questions is important, in all settings: school, home, in conversation, etc… I knew this, but I always wondered how to teach WH questions without feeling like I was testing the kiddo. I didn’t want to repeat the question […]

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This is a wonderful resource to use with early intervention children or with emerging language children. These activities focus on developing basic language skills such as identifying common vocabulary, following simple verbal directions, and labeling items. Vocabulary categories include food, cloth...

Make Learning Fun with This Pirate-Themed Language Resource – No-Prep Bundle Looking for a fun, no-prep language resource? This Pirate-Themed Language Bundle has everything you need to deliver engaging sessions that target expressive and receptive language goals. With print-and-go worksheets and a Boom Cards™ deck for digital use, this resource is perfect for promoting student engagement and easy task completion. Designed for speech therapy, literacy centers, small group interventions, special education, and early elementary, this bundle supports foundational skills such as vocabulary development, sentence building, spatial concepts, and critical thinking. Ideal for both lower and upper elementary students, it’s adaptable to meet the diverse needs of learners. Product Features: • ⭐️ Boom Cards™ Deck: Digital activities for nouns, adjectives, verbs, prepositions, same/different, and sentence expansion. • ⭐️ Interactive Books: Targeting nouns, adjectives, verbs, prepositions, same/different, and sentence expansion. • ⭐️ Vocabulary Cards: Colorful noun, adjective, and verb cards for easy visual reference. • ⭐️ Boom Cards™ Deck: A digital, interactive deck featuring activities to target: Nouns, Adjectives, prepositions, same/different, sentence expanding and Verbs: Build essential vocabulary with pirate-themed words. • ⭐️ Interactive Books (Targeting a Variety of Skills): • Nouns, Adjectives, and Verbs: Explore pirate-related vocabulary with engaging, interactive books that reinforce new words. • ⭐️ Vocabulary Cards: • Full-color cards featuring pirate-themed nouns, adjectives, and verbs to enhance vocabulary learning in a visual, hands-on way. Perfect for both instruction and review. • Prepositions: Hands-on activities that teach spatial relationships using fun, pirate-themed visuals. • Same/Different: Help students identify similarities and differences within a pirate context, improving classification and comparison skills. • Sentence Expansion: Encourage students to build more complex sentences, promoting both expressive and receptive language development. Why You’ll Love It: • Special Education: This resource is ideal for students with special needs, as it provides multiple modalities for learning. The interactive books and Boom Cards™ support visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners, making it adaptable for varying learning styles and skill levels. • Early Elementary: These activities are designed to meet the developmental needs of early learners, helping them master foundational language skills such as vocabulary building, understanding spatial relationships, and sentence construction. Where Can This Be Used? • Speech therapy • Literacy centers • Small group interventions • Special education programs •Elementary classrooms • Homeschooling Easy Prep: Simply print, cut, and use for quick implementation! Stay Connected with Speech Glam: Follow for updates on new products, sales, and discounts. Don’t forget to leave feedback to earn TpT credits!