Wendy demonstrates 3 strategies:Breathe and plan (before you start speaking)Slow start (as you start speaking)Pull-out (if you stutter once you have started ...
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Fluency (or stuttering) therapy is an area that many SLPs feel under-prepared to serve. While you may have had an excellent professor on the subject in grad school, it tends to be a lower incidence
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BoomLearning.com - Amazing authors make awesome learning content! Provide your students/clients with a visual, auditory, and kinesthetic tool to practice smooth speech strategies. Breath & Stretch, Easy Onset of speech, and Pausing/Phrasing are practiced with increasingly longer connected phrases with multi-syllabic words. You control your student's rate of speech by moving the icon at the desired speed. Then your student can practice independently when you share the lesson with them. An audio of the lesson objective and random examples are provided for calibration of strategies. Bonus: The last card in the deck is a reinforcement activity where your student gets to create their own picture. This can also be used for storytelling/narrative development using the fluency strategies targeted! *This deck is not self-grading but intended for direct therapy use and carry-over practice. *Please provide feedback as I would love to keep improving the quality of my products for speech-language pathologists, parents, and other educators that may be accessing these digital resources.
Engaging digital and printable speech and language therapy resources to support communication development in children, adolescents, and teens.
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Fluency Yahtzee
Learn more about stuttering from our contributing speech-language pathologist, Becky Bowen!
Different strategies work for different students who stutter. This blog post goes into detail about teaching fluency strategies to help students.
Hi all! I'm excited to write about a resource I started using/making graphics for last school year, but finally felt it was ready to share...
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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 […]
How to use the pausing and phrasing technique to support fluency in speech language therapy.
This book for children ages 7-12 is available for free on our website.
BoomLearning.com - Amazing authors make awesome learning content! Provide your students/clients with a visual to practice the speech fluency enhancing strategies of easy onset with breath & stretch and light contact. Stuttering strategies are to assist in decreasing the struggle of dysfluent speech. Prompts include phrases and sentences of ever increasing syllabic count. This also pairs kinesthetic movement with target stuttering strategies for increasing generalization of skill. With mediated learning, you control your student's rate of speech by moving the icon at the desired speed. Then, allow your students to practice independently as you share the link with them. An audio of the lesson objective and random examples are provided for calibration of strategy. *This deck is not self-grading but intended for direct therapy use and carry-over practice. *Bonus: The last card in the deck is a reinforcement activity where your student gets to create their own picture. This can also be used for storytelling/narrative development using the fluency strategies targeted! Please enjoy this freebie!
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Finger Puppets, Flipbooks and Fluency Games…oh my! Over these past few months, I’ve been slowly updating my most popular products to make them the best they can be. I’m so excited to share the latest big update to my Fluency Finger Puppet Therapy Pack, which now includes a bonus Fluency Strategy Flipbook, Fluency Fear Rating Scale […]
This mega-packet for fluency is 57 pages long. It 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. • Check it out here! https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Mega-Fluency-Packet-for-Speech-and-Language-Therapy-725847
