Articulation, Articulation and more Articulation

Later Speech Sounds Articulation Bundle at Teachers Notebook

Later Speech Sounds Articulation Bundle at Teachers Pay Teachers

How about having eight great articulation packets available with just the click of your mouse at anytime? Well, you can have that by purchasing both of our useful articulation bundles that have four treatment packets a piece in them!  All the pages have been compressed into zip files so that they don't take up too much room on your computer, but will be waiting for you if and when you need a variety of fun worksheets, games, flashcards, and activities for speech therapy targeting the articulation of early and/or later developing speech sounds. Purchasing a bundle will save you almost 40% off of individual purchasing prices.  These bundles are a cost effective way to build your articulation treatment drawers!

The Later Developing Sounds Articulation Packet includes:

1) S Blend Articulation (75 pages): SN, SL, SK, SP, ST, SW

2) Bug Smash Articulation ( 48 pages): TH & SH + Bug Hunt Articulation for the L & S sounds.

3) Winter Themed Postvocalic R (48 pages): AR, IR, OR

4) Winter Themed Voiced & Voiceless TH Packet (47 pages)

Now For The Early Developing Sounds:

Early Speech Sounds Articulation Bundle at Teachers Notebook

Early Speech Sounds Articulation Bundle at Teachers Pay Teachers

1) Early Speech Sounds In Isolation (122 pages):
B, D, G, H, K, M, N, P, T & W
2) Super Great G & Crazy Cool C & K Articulation Games & Worksheets (91 pages)
3) Speech Sounds Play Dough Mats (37 pages): B, M, K, & G
4) Spring into the NG Sound (67 pages). 

Thank you for visiting our blog today and for reading about our new articulation bundles!

Sincerely,
Manda & Shanda, SLP's

Grammar Bundle!! Plurals, Pronouns, Prepositions, Nouns, Verbs, and More!

Grammar Bundle at Teachers Notebook

Grammar Bundle at Teachers Pay Teachers

We've bundled four of our best selling grammar documents into this 250 page awesome download. The files have been compressed into zip files to save memory space on your computer and to be ready for your download when you need them! Inside the bundle you will find a large variety of therapy cards, worksheets, games, and activities for working on grammar with your elementary to middle school students. We hope you love the download and get a lot of use out of all of the fun documents!

1) Fire Station Pronouns & Prepositions (71 pages)
PRONOUNS: He, she, it, they, I, him, her, his, hers, theirs, them, those & PREPOSITIONS: In front of, around, over, on, behind, beside, by, under, beneath, in, between, across, near, next to, above, off, toward, across, up, on top of, through

2) Groovy Grammar Packet #1 (55 pages)
homophones, synonyms, antonyms, full sentence recognition and correction

3) Groovy Grammar Packet #2 ( 62 pages)
nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns & contractions

4) Let's Get Technical with Plurals (72 pages)
regular and irregular plural verbs and nouns

Sincerely,
Manda & Shanda, SLP's

Guest Posting Over at SpeechSnacks!: Camping Themed Week with Freebie on incorporating S'mores in therapy

Click on the apple to see our guest post over at Speech Snacks today:). She is celebrating her two year blogiversary  this week! Our post is all about how we incorporated our speech and language goals in our camping themed week and it includes a bonus FREEBIE for S'MORE making!

A Comprehensive Bundle For Eliciting Communication In The Pre-K Population

Early Communicator Bundle at Teachers Notebook

Early Communicator Bundle at Teachers Pay Teachers

Would you like to take advantage of over 16 years worth of knowledge and tried and true speech therapy techniques for eliciting communication in the 0 to 4 year old population? If so, please consider downloading this comprehensive therapy bundle at our TpT and/or TN stores that will help guide you in every aspect of speech therapy technique training for the young communicator. I believe in the “total communication” approach when teaching my youngest speech therapy students how to speak and have thankfully seen much success with this approach over the years. Children who have come to me with no words, for example, are often seen and heard eliciting their first signs and words during their very first speech session with me to their parents (and my own) delight!

I'm so happy that I can help elicit verbal and non-verbal communication in even the youngest of children and now I'm sharing my secrets on how I can do it! Here are the key elements to my approach: 1) Early sign language, 2) Visual phonics, 3) Early speech sounds and CV & CVCV word work, 4) The development of a picture exchange systems, 5) The development of oral-motor skills and mouth postures for early sound productions, 6) And work with vowel production if needed.

In this bundle you will find 6 of my packets featuring AAC (70 pages), CV+CVCV Words (70 pages), Early Signs (25 pages), Pre-K Concepts (30 pages), Vowels (77 pages), & Early Speech Sounds in Isolation (122 pages).

I think that you will find the packet most helpful for eliciting communication in the youngest of children on your speech therapy caseload and I welcome you to take a closer look at some sample pages on the preview at our Teachers Pay Teachers and Teachers Notebook stores before making your purchase.

Sincerely,
Shanda Gaunt, M.S. CCC-SLP
Speech Language Pathologist
Twin Sisters Speech & Language Therapy

TOP TEN LIST: Ten Tips To Clearer Speech Production

Hello!  We haven't posted a top ten list in a while so that got me thinking about things that I share in therapy with clients and I decided that I would put together a top ten list about the tips that I share with my adult and pediatric clients that are related to helping to increase their speaking intelligibility. 

Here are two FREEBIES that I want to share with anyone who is interested in learning about some of the common tips that we speech therapists provide to our clients who are having a difficult time expressing themselves verbally.  People are encouraged to follow each of the tips to help to increase speaking intelligibility and accuracy. The sheets could be posted in a therapy room or in a clients speech therapy homework binder, or their home environment for a friendly reminder of what to try to do before speaking. 

The first jpeg is a top ten tip list and I think that it would be better for use with older children and adults, and the second jpeg is a shorter 6 item list with pictures to be used with younger children.  Please right click on the pictures to save the images to your computer and then print them off for your own use whenever you want.  I hope you find them helpful! 

I hope that you all have a wonderful Labor Day tomorrow.  I'm off to the MN State Fair tomorrow with my family and I'm looking forward to one last fun "free" day before we are all getting up super early again for the school day! Thank you for stopping by the blog today and take care. 

Sincerely, Manda, M.A.-CCC-SLP
Speech Language Pathologist
Twin Sisters Speech & Language Therapy

Favorite Therapy Item Thursday! (Interactive Prepositions)

Hello and welcome to our first ever Favorite Therapy Item Thursday!!  SLP's will be sharing their favorite therapy items during this featured post.  We think that it will be a ton of fun for us all to share our favorite "must have" therapy items with the rest of our speech therapy colleagues. We hope you enjoy reading about the items that are helping to make speech therapy treatment rooms more fun and productive! 

**Would you (or at least your idea) like to be featured in a future Favorite Therapy Item Thursday post? Please email us at shandagaunt@gmail.com and tell us your favorite therapy item!!  Or, please leave a comment or use the contact box on the right column to tell us. Lets all share ideas because it makes our jobs even more fun and productive!

The first therapy item we're featuring in our first Favorite Therapy Item Thursday post comes from a wonderful company named Speech Page. I first learned about Speech Page after reading very nicely written and detailed reviews by fellow SLP bloggers- Speech Time Fun and The Speech Bubble. The products got my attention since I noticed the items they reviewed had qualities that I love to see for therapy materials. They were interactive, durable and looked fun! I contacted Speech Page and they generously provided me with a few of their products for a review. Thank you Speech Page! Well, lo and behold, I loved all of the products, but one in particular  turned into one of my favorite therapy items and it is now being featured here in this first Favorite Therapy Item Thursday post!

Without further ado- here it is: 

Interactive Prepositions

I know, it looks cool, doesn't it?! Well, it is! This awesome activity contains four fun interactive scenes. The scenes come ready to use since they are in a plastic bag, already laminated, three holed punched for the option of being put into a three ring binder (see my binder below), have various slits in them (in/through/behind), and already have attached Velcro!! What a relief- I didn't have to put a product together myself this time:) Their titles are: At the Zoo, At the Carnival, At the Pool, & At the Circus. Each scene has vocabulary targeted words which are on a Velcro strip on the edge of the page to be used in the picture.  The prepositions of in, behind, between, in front, on, beside, between, under, over, up and down are encouraged. The pack comes with an additional page which shows images of each preposition and can help guide the person asking for the preposition completion and/or give a visual to the learner. The additional page also has ideas on how the therapist can fully utilize the scenes. 

The many ways I have used this product:

-of course for targeting prepositions: i.e. "Put the cup on", "Put the sunglasses next to", "Place the shoes between", "Place the water bottle behind."
-vocabulary enrichment:  i.e. "Let's name all the pictures at the pool." "Name what is at the carnival". "What do we do at the zoo?"
-following directions:  i.e. "Please put the clown next to the elephant." "Put the hamburger on the snack bar." "Put the zoo keeper next to the giraffe and then put the popcorn on the bench."
-wh questions:  i.e. "Do you like ice cream?" "Have you been to a carnival?" "Where is the shoe?" "What would you do if you were hungry here?"
-fine motor: "Take off the teddy bear and put it through the balloon castle." "Write out the word zoo."
-articulation: i.e. "r" bird, "grr" says the bear, giraffe, zebra
-literacy: i.e. "What letter does zoo start with?" "How many syllables in the word sunglasses?" "What rhymes with shoe?"
-concepts: i.e. "What would you do first, second and last at the zoo?" "What shape is the ball?" "Should we call the girl a he or a she?"

Since I received this product I have pulled it out to use numerous times with many of my students of different ages. They always enjoy the interactive nature of them and I love the versatility of being able to target so many of their speech and language goals! I also enjoy being able to incorporate them into our themed units i.e. during ice cream week I used the zoo mat since one of its vocabulary targets was an ice cream cone. For all these reasons I can now say with good confidence that Interactive Prepositions are now one of my favorite speech therapy go to products! If you haven't seen or used any of the products from Speech Page- go check them out- you won't be disappointed:)

Speech Page Website and their online catalog can be found:  HERE
Speech Time Fun review of Speech Page products can be found: HERE
Speech Bubble review of Speech Page products can be found: HERE

Thank you for stopping by 
Twin Sisters Speech & Language Therapy today! 

We wish you well! Remember- comment or email us at shandagaunt@gmail.com to share your favorite therapy item!! Thanks so much!

Sincerely, 
Shanda and Manda, SLP's
Twin Sisters Speech & Language Therapy

1K Followers on Facebook = A Giveaway of Two Apps!!! Expressive & Phono Learning Center by Smarty Ears

It's so easy to win this week over at Twin Sisters Speech & Language Therapy! We are holding easy contests and this fun giveaway to help celebrate our mark of reaching 1,000 followers at our Facebook page. Just go to the Rafflecopter giveaway located at the blog or Facebook page in order to enter the giveaway. You could win a FREE Expressive or FREE Phono Learning Center app! Best of luck to you, and thank you so much for following us!! And a big thank you to Smarty Ears for their generous donation of two apps!!
Sincerely,
Manda & Shanda, SLP's
Twin Sisters Speech & Language Therapy

To learn more about these awesome apps, please click here to go to our review of Expressive and click here to read our review of Phono Learning Center!


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Enter our fun contest! 1000 Facebook Followers Fun Freebie Week!

Monday's 1K Followers Contest has begun!  If you win, you will receive a coupon with your name on it that will give you the chance to pick out one of our non-bundled products on TpT! 

Here's the contest: Please try to guess the number of Webber Articulation Cards that this cute Ladybug Tummy Stuffer has in its mouth!  Just leave a number on a comment line and the first person to guess the correct number wins!! Have fun!
Sincerely, Manda & Shanda
Twin Sisters Speech & Language Therapy

This coupon could have your name on it!  

 

Hello!  We started on Facebook just a few short months ago and have already gained 1 thousand likes.  We think that is super cool and have decided to have some fun celebrating.  

We will be giving away coupons like the one above to lucky recipients this week.  All you have to do is comment at the blog or on Facebook after one of our postings.  The postings will be fun and simple questions.  Check in every day this week to gain your chance to receive your free Twin Sisters Speech & Language Therapy document coupon! Yay!!

Love It and List It Linky: Organization Clinic Style

Jenna Rayburn is having her monthly  Love It & List It Linky Party and this time it's for ORGANIZATION. Well, I'm no expert on organization, but since Manda and I have A LOT of stuff and not a lot of space overall we try our best to keep on top of things at the clinic. If we don't stay on top of the "stuff"  it can get out of control!  Here is the process we have for trying to keep our units organized at our clinic:

First we either laminate or put our papers in sheet protectors. We get our sheet protectors and laminating sheets and our binder clips (shown below) from Staples.

Here is are awesome laminator we have affectionately named BIG DADDIO!:)
He gets a lot of use!

Our trusty paper cutter who gets used just as much as the laminator but for some reason we don't have a nickname for it. Any name ideas? :)

We use binder clips to fasten all of our laminated cards. They keep them together nicely-
no slipping apart with these babies! Binder clips come in three different sizes (small, medium and large).

Each unit gets its own three ring binder. We got a steal on a bunch of these at our local dollar store.

Inside the binder we put pocket folders which hold our cards.
Also purchased through Staples.

Extra papers and loose copies go into the front and back pockets

Example picture on how we use the binder clips and sheet protectors together

Each unit gets it's own plastic bin. It will hold our binder, loose copies of papers, all the games, extra crafts and toys for the unit.

Into the storage room it goes. O.K.- I know we have more room than a lot of people- but for some reason it never seems like enough-ha!

The other side of our storage room. It's shared with OT and PT too- but speech seems to have more- what can we say? We like stuff!! -ha!

More ways we stay organized in our room.

One of our shelves. We have a label for each category under it's area  i.e., cognition, fluency, pragmatics, voice, phonological, articulation etc.!

We have several good ole file cabinets too which house our working client folders, handouts and other therapy materials.

That's a glimpse into our way of trying to stay organized clinic style!  Be sure to head over to Speech Room News to read about how other SLP bloggers organize too! Several others have hopped on to this useful Linky Party! Hopefully you will find out even more organizational ideas. We can all use some help in this area I'm guessing:)

Happy organizing all!

Sincerely,

Shanda 

Lets Get Technical with PLURALS! A Regular & Irregular Plurals Teaching Packet + Freebie!

MOST WORDS JUST ADD A “S”:

Examples: logs, boots, bags, bugs, dogs, & computers 

SOME WORDS COMPLETELY CHANGE:

Examples: children, men, women, people, mice, teeth & oxen

SOME WORDS STAY THE SAME:

Examples: fish, deer, & moose

These are just a few plural rules that we review in this comprehensive packet! We have put together 71 pages of plural flash cards, worksheets, games, rule reminder pages, and room signs in order to address every aspect of how to make a word a plural. The technology theme is great for children of all ages and the colorful pictures make the time that your student needs in order to grasp all aspects on how to turn words into the plural form FUN! 

Plural Pack At Teachers Notebook

Plurals Pack At Teachers Pay Teachers

*Right click on the picture and print to receive your free page of the quick reference of plural rules!

Contents and Directions For Let's Get Technical With Plurals:

Page 5: Welcome sign for door and/or bulletin board.
Pages 6-12: Plural Rules for bulletin board.
Page 13: One page quick reference of plural rules.
Page 14: Plural rules numbered to use with activities.
Page 15: Die and game pieces to use with game board.
Page 16-17: “Let’s Get Technical With Plurals Game Board”. Use cards provided on pages 27-41. The student is asked to name the non- plural form of their word and then they are asked to choose which plural rule was used to make the word a plural. *Use with page 14 for naming plural rule number.
Page 18: Name plurals, plural rules, and non -plural form of words as the student completes page using paint dotters, craft balls and/or tokens.
Page 19: Hide-N-Seek the named plurals. Circle the amount asked.
Page 20: Plural word find.
Page 21-22: Plural puzzles. Print two copies if needed for easier completion.
Page 23: Name the plural forms of the pictures and complete the maze.
Page 24: Tic-Tac-Toe. Use cards from pages 27-41 and have student name the non plural form of their word and/or it’s plural rule upon their turn.
Page 25: Have student insert cards into the computer disc drive as they name the non- plural form of their words and/or it’s plural rule. Page 26: Discuss plural words as student colors the page.
27-41: Plural cards. Print, laminate and cut out. Use with all above mentioned activities.
Pages 42-43: Draw a line to the matching plural pictures. Pages 44-46: Complete the plural words using a “s”, “es” and “ies”. Pages 47-48: Write in the number on the lines of the plural pictures. Pages 49- 50: Circle the plurals and cross out the words that are not.
Pages 51-54: Write in the plural form of the pictures/words listed. Pages 55-56: Seek-N-Find the Irregular Plurals.
Pages 57-58: Circle the plural in each sentence.
Pages 59-60: Draw a line to the correct irregular plural.
Page 61: Irregular plural examples.
Page 62-63: Irregular plurals sorting activity. Cut out, shuffle and sort and/or glue onto the provided sorting mat (page 63).
Page 64: Write in the irregular plural words.
Pages 65- 67: Write in the plural word. Use the word in a sentence. Pages 68-69: Write in the plural form of the word in the sentences. Pages 70-71: Answer sheets.
Page 72: Twin Sisters Speech and Language Therapy Information Page.

Note: Common Core Goals!
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.K.1c Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes).
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.1b Form and use frequently occurring irregular plural nouns (e.g., feet, children, teeth, mice, fish)
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.1b Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns

Sincerely,
Manda & Shanda, SLP's
Twin Sisters Speech & Language Therapy