Different strategies work for different students who stutter. This blog post goes into detail about teaching fluency strategies to help students.

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Fluency Speech Therapy Stuttering Toolkit Workbook for Kids Help kids build confidence in their speech, and learn to implement 7 fluency-enhancing techniques to reduce stuttering during sentence reading, paragraph reading, and while answering open-ended questions! This PDF workbook includes 7 fluency-enhancing technique introduction pages, 7 practice pages including sentence reading and open-ended would you rather questions, and 5 paragraph reading pages. Who is this product for? The Stuttering Toolkit workbook is for speech-language pathologists looking for materials to use with kids to help with fluency and reducing stuttering. This bundle is also for parents who are looking for a fun way to help their kids learn how to smooth out their speech at home! How can this product be used? This is a digital download product. As an SLP, you will be able to print out this workbook to use in the therapy room. As an SLP doing teletherapy, you will be able to conveniently use this workbook as a virtual activity by sharing your screen. As a parent, you will be able to print out this workbook to use at home, or use on your phone or iPad on the go! Important to Note: -This is a digital download product. -Digital downloads are non-refundable. -Digital Download Products are for personal use only, and are not to be posted online or resold. Thank you so much for shopping with AbigailMinaSpeech! Please don't hesitate to reach out with any questions that you may have. :) Copyright 2021 Abigail Mina Speech All Rights Reserved

Stuttering, also known as stammering or childhood-onset fluency disorder, is a type of speech impediment that causes regular

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Stuttering treatment can begin after a child receives a stuttering diagnosis. The earlier treatment begins, the better the outcome.

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#may2020halfoffspeech Techniques, activities, worksheets, and flashcards to help guide the treatment of fluency disorders Treating fluency disorders can be one of the most exciting and fulfilling parts of our job, and this 75-page fluency treatment guide will be your new favorite resource! This resource includes: Teacher Checklist Student self-rating scales- Daily/Weekly Worries worksheets Positive and negative feelings worksheets Body tension reduction and relaxation techniques Instructions on belly breathing My Speech Helpers visual and worksheets Types of Stuttering chart and worksheets Secondary characteristics of stuttering Learning voice, place, and manner of sounds worksheets Light Contacts- how to, flashcards, and worksheets/activities Easy Onsets- how to, flashcards, and worksheets/activities Pausing and Phrasing- how to, flashcards, and worksheets/activities These assignments can be used for a variety of ages and levels! Please download the preview for a better look! ************************************************************************** Find more products related to fluency/stuttering here. ************************************************************************** Customer Tips: Be the first to know about my new discounts, freebies and product launches: •Look for the green star next to our store logo and click it to become a follower. Voila! You will now receive email updates about this store. ☺ ************************************************************************** Check out our blog for tips, tricks, & fun at Speech in the Sand Also check out our Facebook and Instagram for product updates, freebies, and sales!

Here are 10 quick and easy fluency therapy ideas to incorporating themes into your sessions! Themed therapy makes it super easy to plan!

Tackle fluency therapy distance learning with these stuttering teletherapy ideas. Fluency therapy is often difficult on its own but these ideas can help.

There are several programs and practices out there to address fluency. Most involve some types of strategies or fluency enhancing behaviors (FEBs) to teach those who stutter how to manage their fluency. I use these strategies daily with my fluency kiddos and have found them to work very well. I try to spend time practicing each behavior with them, so we can find the ones that they are the most comfortable with and that works best for them. Here are the most common FEBs that I use: My fluency student and I came up with visuals that help him to remember the strategies. These remind him of what the strategy is and how he's supposed to use it. Slow rate = turtle: We needed something that was known for being slow in order to remind him to slow down his rate of speech. He decided on a turtle (a snail would also work). Light contact = feather: We used feathers to remind him to keep his articulators light and loose and not tense. Easy starts = green light: In order to explain this one better I used the green light example. You know when a car is stopped at a traffic light and then it turns green? Cars should begin to go again slowly and easily. If they gun it quickly without looking or thinking, they could cause an accident. If we start talking quickly and without thinking, it could cause our speech to be bumpy. Pausing = stop sign: This strategy is also called grouping. We used the stop sign analogy to help him remember to stop and pause every so often when speaking. This strategy is most easily practiced during readings. Stretchy speech - rubber band: Rubber bands are a perfect visual for stretchy speech. We practice with an actual band and stretch it out when we start speaking and slowly let it back it. Full breath = whistle: My student chose this one. I think he just wanted to play with a whistle lol. You breathe in when you get ready to blow a whistle and we practice relaxing our mouth and throat as we blow out. I also made these cards, so that I can refer to them often. It gives him a quick, handy visual of the strategy that we are practicing. If you think these are something you can use with your fluency kiddos as well, you can grab both of these sheets for FREE! Just head over to my TPT store to download. :) What do you think? How do you address fluency strategies with your kids?

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American Sign Language Activity and Learning Busy Book 1 is a print yourself a compilation of alphabet activities including ASL letter signs, letter fluency, letter recognition, and alphabetical order memorization. This activity book when utilized with a dry erase marker and Velcro dots can he helpful for strengthening fine motor skills for little ones! The goal of this book is to help with beginning ASL learners who are Deaf, Hard of hearing, have Autism Spectrum Disorder and those who are simply just interested! This book is welcome to all ages and stages! The Fan favorite part is the prize page at the end for those who like rewards! After each activity find there is a prize that you can take to add to the mystery picture at the end! Accomplish all the activities to reveal! Great for tracking progress throughout the book! You decide what to keep in and take out, all customizable for your students needs! how to assemble, 3 inch binder, and 75, depending on how many pages you keep, plastic binder sleeves (they’re dry erasable!), a dry erase marker, an eraser, and at least 75 Velcro dots sets.

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Let's take a break from holiday activities to talk about stuttering therapy. I do have a Halloween activity for my fluency kids, but I will blog about that later. Here is a clue: Cadavers. Gross, right? Anyway, when students begin therapy with me for stuttering, one of the first things we do is describe what stuttering is and how they stutter. Part of that is describing types of stutters. For my students in kindergarten through second grade we talk a lot about smooth, bumpy, and blocked speech. There are a variety of activities that we do to really make this concept concrete. But, this one is a favorite! First we make roads with basic supplies: index cards, crayons, paper, glue. The roads are either in a straight line for smooth speech, a bumpy road for bumpy speech, and a road block in the middle of the road for blocked speech. The students then choose three cars (I got these are the dollar store). We drive the cars on the roads and say words, phrases, and sentences with the type of speech on the little paper street. For example, we say, "This road is smooth for my car," "This this this this is a bumpy road for my car," and "My_______ car hit a road block." All while moving the cars along the roads. When we are done driving, I hot glue the cars to their page. The kids think this part is pretty cool. Plus, they love taking this project home to show their parents!

Included- 10 visual pacing boardsUse these pacing boards to help your patients with dysarthria, apraxia, fluency disorders and more. They help to decrease rate of speech, pace sentences for increased intelligibility and break down multisyllabic words for increased accuracy. These boards provide incr...

Dollar store fluency finds for stuttering therapy? Yes, please! Who doesn’t love finding inexpensive therapy materials at the dollar store? I have several students on my caseload working on fluency enhancing techniques and it always helps to have visuals during therapy. If you haven’t heard, I have been periscoping about my trips to the Dollar […]

Confession. My stuttering materials are extremely outdated! I’ve been in dire need of fresh new stuttering materials for years now. My fluency caseload is like a roller coaster! My first year I had five students who stuttered and ever since I usually have between 1-3 fluency students. Although, they represent a small portion of my ... Read More about Fluency In A Snap!

Movement disorders are neurological conditions that characteristically affect the speed, fluency, quality, and ease of voluntary muscle movements. These may affect activities of daily living (ADL), or simple day-to-day tasks such as writing or walking.

Cluttering is a speech disorder that few in the public know about. Here is an article for SLPs about how to diagnose and treat cluttering.

I currently have four students with a stuttering disorder on my caseload. One is in first grade, and the others are in second and third. They each have speech on their own this year. One-on-one therapy, for all four! All of the kids are in different classes, and that is just how the schedule worked out. It is really nice having 30minutes every week for each of them, plus I think they like having the undivided attention. The older three have been working on a project for a few weeks to learn about speech helpers. The idea is that when they can name and understand what part of their body is affected by a stuttering moment, it aides in teaching them how to use fluency enhancing strategies. This is our first unit of the year, and we will move onto strategies next week. As described in previous posts, Halloween crafts during therapy is in full swing in the speech room. My fluency kids made a cadaver to add to the scary decorations. The cadaver, of course, was a means to an end to teach about speech helpers. I combined a lot of ideas from a lot of sources. I have a few documents to share with you as well through Google Docs. Here are the steps to the project! We started with the mouth. I found this version here. I enlarged it to show the detail and allow room for the marshmallow teeth and balloon tongue. I bought pink balloons and the students filled them with marshmallows for the tongue. The marshmallows gave it a soft and squishy texture, sorta like a real tongue. Next, after the student cut out the mouth, I cut a slit in the paper to attach the tongue with tape on the back. Next, marshmallow teeth were added, and a few eaten. I mean really, I couldn't expect them to just glue them! This is where I saw this idea, although there are many different versions on Pinterest. An old lipstick was used to enhance the lips. This lipstick will never touch my lips again and forever live with my fluency supplies! With the inside of the mouth done, it was time to make a side-view of the cadaver. I found this paper version here. More lipstick and marshmallows, as well as a pink balloon, were used for the additional body parts. The nose is made a plastic pencil sharpener that I had in my prize box. I think I got them from Target. The students cut out the lungs, that I found here, and glued them to the chart. Bubble wrap was added next, to represent the alveoli, which were painted pink with watercolors. Here is where I got that idea. I was surprised that the watercolors stayed on so well. I attached the bubble wrap with a stapler. Rolled up pink paper was used for the trachea and bronchi. The vocal folds/cords is a dry tortellini glued to the top of the airway. Now for brains! They are ramen noodles painted pink, and then hot-glued onto the page. Easy and realistic. The final step was adding labels to each speech helper, as well as the description of how we speak. I got help with this from here and here. I have a copy of my version of the labels and "How we Speak" statement for you: here and here. Here is the cadaver in all of it's gross glory! This was a lot of work, both for me and the students. I spent a lot of time collecting items, formulating my ideas, trouble shooting, and creating parts of the project. But, it was worth it! I am so proud of these kiddos.

Stuttering Assessment: How to do a Fluency Evaluation Stuttering, the most common fluency disorder, is an interruption in the flow of speaking characterized by specific types of disfluencies, including repetitions of sounds, syllables, and monosyllabic words (e.g., “Look at the b-b-baby,” “Let’s go out-out-out”); prolongations of consonants when it isn’t for emphasis (e.g., “Ssssssssometimes we stay home”);

How do you work on fluency in your classroom? We make sure to READ READ READ simple sentences to practice our fluency!

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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. […]

Cluttering is a speech disorder that few in the public know about. Here is an article for SLPs about how to diagnose and treat cluttering.

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This speech therapy homework is ONE PAGE for SEVEN DAYS! Your students will love to color the daily pictures as they practice their sounds. Easy for print-n-go access to send home for carryover. Word lists are included. Perfect for all year long! This resource includes the following targets: Backing Fronting Gliding Stopping Vowelization Affrication Deaffrication Alveolrization Depalatization Labialization Assimilation Denasalization Final Consonant Devoicing Prevocalic Voicing Cluster Reduction Final Consonant Deletion Initial Consonant Deletion Weak Syllable Deletion Epenthesis **Each phonological process includes one week-long homework sheet.** How it works: Includes 7 days of the week. Includes a variety of target words per phonological process. Student will practice target words and color the pictures for that day of the week. Homework is finished when all days are completed! ------------------------------------------------------- As always, please contact me with any questions at [email protected]. Thank you so much! Erin Larsen ------------------------------------------------------- Let's connect! Blog/Website Instagram Facebook Pinterest Twitter

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Why is fluency therapy so complicated? Here are several tips and tricks to help you tackle those difficult stuttering cases!