Thursday, April 3, 2014

Did you say GIVEAWAY? Yep, and a review of Smarty Ears iName it App too!

What is something that we can't seem to have enough of at our speech clinic?  Functional apps, that's what! That is why we were excited to find out about Smarty Ears app named, iName it and to complete a review about it for you!  In order to review it properly, we tried this app out with several clients at the speech clinic and we are now back with our results to share with everyone. 

 We hope you enjoy reading about iName it.  When you are done reading the review, please don't forget to enter the giveaway at the end.  The winner of the Rafflecopter giveaway will be granted one free iName it app to use in their own therapy rooms.  Wonderful news, huh?!  Good luck and thanks so much for coming by Twin Sisters Speech & Language Therapy LLC today to read about the Smarty Ears app named iName it! 


Here we go: 
This is the cover page of the app.  We like it because it is where we can easily access a video tutorial on how to use the app and other support.  In addition, we think it is professional looking and appropriate for the aphasic adults that we tried this app out with. Our first impression of the iName it app was that it would be a very appropriate app to use with our clients whom are experiencing expressive aphasia. Currently we have two clients coming to the clinic who have recently experienced cerebrovascular accidents (CVA's). A CVA/stroke is defined as a lack of oxygen to an area of the brain. Unfortunately, the strokes have affected their ability to express themselves without error and to initiate speech and they have both been diagnosed with expressive aphasia.  

Expressive aphasia defined: 
The loss of the ability to produce language.  It occurs in approximately 12% of new cases of aphasia caused by a stroke and in most cases, it is caused by a stroke in the Broca's are of the brain. 




It's easy to get started with using the iName it app.  Just click on "Start Practice" from the front page and then "New" that is found on the second page shown.  From there, add a name and a client photo from your iPad photo library, and/or Avatar photo that is provided from a choice list. This app was designed for only one user to use at a time.


Next you will see the room choices of a bedroom, kitchen, living room, bathroom, and garage.  Side note inserted here-  Oh how we want this house! It is just beautiful, new and modern looking.  Can we move in? ha! 

OK, back to the review... :) Click on one of the rooms shown and you will be taken to it.  The room that you have chosen will contain 10 targeted items to name.  This is where the functionality of this app is shown! What could be more functional than working on naming actual items found in a person's living environment?  I'm talking about the items that you see and use every day of your life.  Well, of course, the benefit of learning to name these items would increase caregiver/family communication breakdowns tremendously.  The 50 functional items targeted in this app are all clearly shown, appropriate for speech practice and will increase your client's ability to communicate effectively with loved ones.



After choosing the bedroom you will find that a beautiful colored version of the bedroom will be shown. It is from here that you should tap on one of the ten items that are shown.  The item that gets selected remains in color while the rest of the bedroom becomes less obvious because it gets grayed out. This is a nice feature, as it makes the background items less obvious and distracting while the client works on naming the targeted item shown up in front of the screen. 


If the client can name the item without clues, than great!  Just click on the green check button that is shown at the upper right hand corner of the page and go on to the next item.  If the client has trouble naming it, than click on this a blue button and prompts will be displayed at the bottom of the screen that are common "clues" that some people need in order to produce the word verbally.  


Here is a picture of the prompts that our clients needed the most in order to successfully name the objects shown: phonemic (first part of the word shown), semantic (a definition was given), phrase completion ( put the clothes in the___), and whole word (the word was shown: dresser). Using the clues options are a great way to elicit success with naming tasks.  Some clients only need one little clue in order to successfully get the word out and this kind of advice is good to share with their family members and caregivers.  For instance, we may tell the caregiver to be careful to not just name the item for their loved one, but to just give them the initial sound of the object in order for the loved one to name it themselves. We believe that is much nicer for the client to name the item given a small clue than it is for the caregiver to just provide the answer, as this does not give the client any chance to work on "exercising" their naming skills.  Giving the "answers" per say, will only reduce the opportunity to stimulate the brain area that needs to be exercised in order to make new neural pathways and to overall increase verbal naming skills.  In our opinions, the client who has the opportunity to work hard and to do more of the naming task on their own will recover more quickly. 


Here is a picture of the data that has been collected while using the app. We have clicked on "Data report" and the date that we have used the app, the overall accuracy of naming with or without cues, and the type of cues used were displayed.  The collected data is terrific to have for charting progress and for reporting status results to the client and for inputting in their daily and monthly progress notes.  The reports can be printed out, emailed and exported to other places like a drop box.  

In summary:
We loved using this app with our clients who are struggling to name objects as a result of the strokes that they had unfortunately experienced.  We were able to witness a lot of naming success that was quick and independent and/or done with the provided cueing techniques that were offered in the app on each page.  We do believe that this also would be a perfect and wonderful addition to any therapy room that needs to help advance the verbal expression skills of their aphasic clients.  

With that said, we also wanted to make sure that we mentioned how we both also work with children of all ages and we did use this app with some of them lately too!   We were able to work on increasing their vocabulary skills and their naming skills of functional objects that are found in their environments.  We were also able to easily go beyond the therapy task of naming to other language based therapy tasks too.  For instance, we worked on category item naming with one student.  We asked, "Can you think of three more items that you see in a bedroom that you don't see in this picture".  We worked on overall verbal expression with another student by asking that student to develop their own sentence using the picture named.  The student responded, "The boy plays chess with his Dad".  Finally, we also worked on advancing language skills by asking another student to describe the object and to provide the use for the object shown.  This helped to increase his use of adjectives and object functions. 

This professionally made app is a wonderful tool for advancing the verbal expression skills of a large variety of clients.  We would highly recommend that you purchase it yourself and give it a try.  We both believe that the pictures and clues shown will improve your clients ability to name useful and functional objects that are typically found in their home environments. 

The iName It app currently sells for $14.99. You can download a copy of this app in the iTunes store here.

Please don't forget to enter the Rafflecopter giveaway in order to try to win your own FREE copy!  

Best wishes,
Manda & Shanda, SLPs
Twin Sisters Speech & Language Therapy LLC

Please know: Smarty Ears provided us with a free copy of the app for the above review.  All of the opinions provided on this review are our own and result from the actual use of the app in a therapeutic context. 

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Favorite Therapy Item Thursday: A guest post from Carissa from Home Sweet Speech Room- Word Flips from Super Duper!

Hello, we are so happy to host the sweet and smart Carissa from Home Sweet Speech Room today.  Have you visited her fun and helpful blog lately?  If not, you really should.  She has a lot of great links to useful and creative therapy materials.  To start, why not check out her FREEBIES? From there head to her Teachers pay Teachers store where she has 67 products for sale! Wow, that's a lot! 

Carissa is guest posting on her favorite therapy item called Word Flips.  We have two copies of this book at our clinic and we love to flip through those functional pictures for our early talkers just like she does!  Without further ado... here's Carissa's wonderful guest post for our monthly Favorite Therapy Item Thursday post!   

Sincerely,
Manda & Shanda



First, let me say how excited I am that Manda and Shanda invited me to guest post today!  I love their idea to spotlight SLPs' favorite materials.  I think I will need to start adding to my own collection!!

One of my favorite therapy items is Word Flips from Super Duper!  This product is available as a physical book or as an app.
Photo: superduperinc.com
I started out using this book with one of my young patients with suspected apraxia.   A brief history:  He came to us not saying much at all.  He was barely imitating sounds and syllables.  So we started working on bilabial syllables (just one).  We bumped it up to combining two syllables and eventually three as he was ready.  Eventually, we moved on from bilabials to alveolars and so on.  I'm happy to tell you he is now working on phrases and suprasegmentals more than he is syllables!  However, he still requests to start with this book as a warm-up every single session!

I'm a firm believer in using REAL words, which is why I love this product! These are CV combinations, but they are also real words.  This allows the patient/ student to have correct productions of practical words that will likely be in their young vocabulary.   Another great thing about this product is you can always make sentences out of these words.

One side note--a great thing about the app is that it can take data for you!

This is a great product for our younger friends, and it is one I plan on purchasing for myself! (I had just been using the hospital's copy).

Have you used this product?? 

Friday, March 21, 2014

Product Review: Assessment of Monolingual and Bilingual Children with Down Syndrome

http://www.smartspeechtherapy.com/shop/comprehensive-assessment-of-monolingual-and-bilingual-children-with-down-syndrome/Down Syndrome


I had the extreme pleasure of reviewing a Smart Speech Therapy LLC product titled: Comprehensive Assessment of Monolingual and Bilingual Children with Down Syndrome.  This wonderful presentation was written by the brilliant and resourceful,Tatyana Elleseff MA CCC-SLP.  Tatyana is a bilingual SLP who works with a variety of hospital based and private clients in Central, New Jersey.   She specializes in working with multicultural, internationally and domestically adopted, as well as, at-risk children with complex communication disorders.

The 90 page presentation is comprehensive to say the least!  It is loaded with useful background information on Down Syndrome (DS), assessment details, treatment goal examples, and my favorite: actual examples of write-ups based on real-life clients!  This presentation is just what I needed to expand on my knowledge base of Down Syndrome (DS), on how to assess a monolingual or bilingual child with DS using the correct and most functionally based assessments, and how to correctly set up their treatment plans so that the goals are functional and appropriate for each and every individual child that I see. 

Here are highlights from some of the sections

The introduction: 
Here I read about prevalence rates of DS and the range of severity of development for speech, motor and life skills, cognitive abilities and health problems. 

Feeding and swallowing:
I was interested to learn about how low muscle tone, gastrointestinal issues, stomach and bowel dysmotility, respiratory and cardiac issues can contribute to reduced swallowing and feeding issues in this section of the presentation.

Craniofacial Anatomy & the Effect on Speech:
Anatomical differences such as smaller than normal maxilla can contribute to reduced speech intelligibility.  This section also brings up the increased rate of dysluencies in the DS population.  I found it very interesting to find out that stuttering and/or cluttering can occur in DS at rates of 10 to 45% compared to about 1% in the general population.  Did you know that?  I didn't prior to reviewing this well researched presentation. 

Language Deficits: 
In these sections I was able to read about strengths and weaknesses related to language learning for DS children.  Did you know that generally comprehension is achieved well before word production for this population?  Also, that learning language can be affected by reduced hearing, auditory discrimination, verbal short-term memory and delayed vocabulary and grammar development. 

Strengths and weaknesses in DS:
There's a wide range of strengths for this population (e.g., visual processing).  It was nice to read the list so that I can build my therapy goals of the child's strengths in order to successfully tackle some of the weaker learning areas for the child (e.g., attention span). 

Assessments:
Wow!  This is where Tatyana lists and describes components found in actual tests like the Functional Communication Profile (FCP-R) that should be used for the standardized section of a speech and language evaluation.  She emphasizes that functional assessments are key because they don't just reveal deficits but showcase strengths, which can then be utilized effectively in intervention planning and therapy. I don't have some of the tests mentioned in this section, but I do hope to obtain some as they look very useful.
Later in this section of the presentation, Tatyana also lists the components in infant-toddler checklists, and free online assessments tools.  Just great!

Bilingualism and Down Syndrome section:
Tatyana's expertise on how to assess and treat children who speak more than one language at home really shines through in this section.  I learned about the key components needed when completing an assessment with a bilingual child with DS.  She even listed the actual questions that I would need to ask in order to complete a successful parent interview.  The information provided in this section was very useful and I do have a Spanish & English speaking child to assess soon at my outpatient speech therapy clinic and I plan to utilize the information found in this section for completing the assessment correctly!  

What follows next are the sample write ups.  This information is so helpful for me.  I learn and understand by example and so these write ups are priceless.  I got to read about how an actual assessment section would be written up for areas such as:

feeding and swallowing
cup drinking
oral motor mechanism examination
articulation
voice and resonance
adaptive behavior and learning style
pragmatic language assessment
receptive language sample
expressive language sample
vocabulary assessment
and more...

And like that wasn't enough?  Tatyana also includes several pages on how to write up appropriate treatment goals for the children that were assessed.  The writing therapy goal section contains information on how to write measurable goals, types of cues and prompts, and then goes on to show actual therapy goals!!!  I couldn't believe it when I saw them.  She listed a large variety of long and short term goals for actual treatment goal areas e.g., articulation, receptive language, play skills, expressive language and pragmatic language. 

This presentation is a valuable resource and I would highly recommend that you purchase it today.  It will help increase your understanding of DS population, improve your ability to assess monolingual and bilingual children with DS, and it will make you look like the best therapy goal writer ever!  

Where can you find this wonderful presentation?  Well, head to Tatyana's online store now to purchase and download today.  You won't regret it! See the information below. 

Thank you so much for reading this product review today.  

Shanda, SLP
Twin Sisters Speech & Language Therapy LLC

You can find this product in The Smart Speech Therapy LLC Online Store on sale for $24.99 HERE.
Other Helpful Resources Produced by Smart Speech Therapy LLC:

·         Social Pragmatic Deficits Checklist for Preschool Children 
·         Behavior Management Strategies for Speech Language Pathologists
·         Executive Function Impairments in At-Risk Pediatric Populations

 
Bio: 
Tatyana Elleseff MA CCC-SLP is a bilingual SLP with a full time hospital affiliation as well as private practice in Central, NJ. She specializes in working with multicultural, internationally and domestically adopted as well as at-risk children with complex communication disorders. For more information visit her
BLOG, STORE, or follow her Facebook page.
 
Did you know it is World Down Syndrome Day today (March 21, 2014)? What an important day to honor these wonderful individuals and spread awareness. Thank you for stopping by our blog today to learn about this amazing product by Tatyana Elleseff and for spreading the word on World Down Syndrome Day.

Sincerely,

Shanda and Manda

 
 
 

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Speachy Feedback! 2 Winners! March 2014 Linky



Once a month, Allison from Allison's Speech Peeps hosts a wonderful Linky party which recognizes great feedback received at our Speech Teachers pay Teachers stores.  Manda and I love to participate in this since we REALLY appreciate the nice feedback we receive when someone leaves it after downloading one of our products. We read each and every comment. Every comment is terrific to see and all of the feedback helps us to make our packets better. This month we are picking two people. One who left feedback on a paid product AND someone who left feedback on a free product.
After much deliberation (since we had so many great choices) we chose these two!



Usernames Debbie Staloff and Tracy Ann OLeary email us at shandagaunt@gmail.com for a free non- bundled product from our store!  You two are awesome! Thank you so much for leaving such great feedback!!

Debbie, 
Thank you so much for purchasing our Roll, Dot and Say /SH/ Packet.

On Sale! Roll, Dot & Say Quick Print & NO PREP Articulatio

Tracy, 
Thank you so much for trying out our Patriotic Pronouns and Prepositions Freebie!

FREEBIE: Patriotic Pronouns and Prepositions

Everyone can click on the Linky image above or HERE to to see if you may have won at other Speech Blogs too. 

Thanks for the great feedback everyone!

Have a wonderful day!

Shanda and Manda, SLPs

Product Review: AAC Daily Item Requesting Activity by SpeechPage

Hello and thank you for stopping by Twin Sisters Speech & Language Therapy LLC today in order to read about a wonderful product from SpeechPage Publishing Company called: AAC Requesting of Daily Items Activity in 4D

When you buy the Intro to AAC Requesting Daily Items Activity 4D, you will you receive 24 daily item pieces and 24 matching AAC symbols that are designed to introduce common vocabulary of functional items such as clothes, snacks and bathroom items. The best thing is that each item arrives at your door laminated!  Oh, how we love ignoring our own laminator by buying pre-laminated items that are already cut out for us!  This is just dreamy! Laminated items are of course the best to have.  The lamination makes the items durable and available for repetitive uses for many years and this makes them the best purchase for your money.  The other wonderful element is that many of the items from SpeechPage come velcroed or Velcro ready for interactive movement during a planned speech therapy session.  This is the style of therapy that Shanda and I both perform with our younger students and that is why we are big fans of SpeechPage products!  
Now to show you how to use this wonderful product!  To start, here are pictures of two of the boards included in the packet. 

The first board shown is the board that provides pictures of snacks and drinks.  The pictures can be matched up together up on the pictured table or taken off one by one upon therapist request.  We asked one of our less verbal students with an Autism diagnosis to pick a picture and to put it on the pictured table to show us an item that they like to have at snack time at their house. This child's receptive language skills are higher than his expressive communication and we have seen him follow 2-step commands without error and so he was able to pick up the picture of the popcorn and the milk that was laid out in from of him. He then put it on the picture of the table.  He did a great job communicating via AAC that he likes popcorn and milk by demonstrating those choice of pictures! 
From there, we gave some simple "yes" and "no" questions about milk and popcorn.  For instance, "Is milk cold?" "Do you like butter on your popcorn?" After that, we even took a side trip to the clinic kitchen to make popcorn! We wanted to show him how the act of choosing a picture of an item wanted can turn into a reasonable request for an actual item.  It was fun to watch the popcorn pop in the microwave and it gave us an awesome opportunity to practice our /P/ sound by saying, "pop". 

The AAC request activity provided us with a great tool to help demonstrate to the child and to the child's mother who was present that communication boards do work well for helping to communicate wants and needs to others.  They also serve as a wonderful catalyst for speech production and encourage the use of verbalization's along with the use of the communication board.  They are very useful for helping to increase communication outside of the speech therapy session and into the students home and school environments.  They really can be the best answer for the non-verbal child and this AAC item is a wonderful way to practice to see if a child is able to use one.

And in this picture we are working with an older more verbal child.  We have asked him to produce a full sentence in order to request the picture to fill up his pictured bathroom sink area.  For example, he was provided with an initial model sentence, but was then asked to produce the full sentences on his own like: "May I have the toothbrush?"  He then placed the toothbrush near the sink on his bathroom item themed AAC mat after his request and after Shanda handed it to him. He and Shanda had a wonderfully interactive speech session!  The child was able to work on receptive language by following directions and also articulation and verbal expression.  It was found out from this sentence level interaction that the child needed to work on a slower rate of speech and over-articulation of some sounds to improve his intelligibility.  They even worked on one specific sound after it was found to be distorted in sentence length speech.  One that was not distorted at the word level. So that was a good catch! 


There are a number of productive uses for these AAC requesting boards.  We have used them for practicing direction following and other receptive language tasks, articulation and verbal expression, and even for helping to build vocabulary.  We love knowing that we have them in our therapy tool box to be used at anytime and we hope that you may consider purchasing them for yourself. You can purchase the wonderfully colorful and durable AAC Daily Items Requesting Activity Packet for $26.94 on line at Speechpage.com.  The awesome thing is that I just read that they are currently having a sale too!  It looks like you can save an additional 8% off your order by entering the code TAKE8  at checkout!  Isn't that great?!

Have a wonderful day and thank you for reading about this product!

 Manda & Shanda, SLPs
Twin Sisters Speech & Language Therapy LLC

*Speechpage provided a copy of this product for the purposes of this review. The opinions are our own.

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

FREE Easter- Themed /R/ Articulation Activities & Game board!



Hello!  Thank you for stopping by our blog today.  We hope that you are having a nice start to Spring! The warmer weather has us thinking about our next big holiday.  It is a fun one for the kiddos because they can go on Easter egg hunts and have fun with the funny Easter Bunny.  That is why we put this freebie together for you and we hope you like it!
 
The packet targets the /R/ sound (pre and post vocalic).  We have provided a cute game board, a feed the Easter bunny reinforcer page, a roll and color worksheet, and colored and black and white Easter egg hunt cards.  


This is all provided for you for FREE! Yay!

Please click on this link to grab it over at Teachers pay Teachers today and enjoy!

Note: This document has been revised and improved over the 2013 version.  We hope you can download the new version today! 


Have a fun egg hunt this Spring and a lovely Easter holiday too!


Manda Riebel, M.A. CCC-SLP &
Shanda Gaunt, M.S. CCC-SLP
Speech Language Pathologists
Twin Sisters Speech & Language Therapy LLC







Wednesday, March 12, 2014

50% off for 24 hours! Roll, Dot & Say Quick Print Artic Workbook - /SH/ Sound




What do you get after compiling a large variety of black and white clip art, the knowledge of 15+ years of combined speech therapy practice behind your belt, and the knowledge that you are about to post your 94th therapy document on TpT and TN? This masterpiece, that's what!

We have put together a comprehensive quick print therapy packet that targets the speech sound of /SH/ from head to toe!

Please see the preview located at the links to TN or TpT to read the contents and directions and to see slides featuring many of the black and white worksheets included in this packet.

We hope that you notice that we have tried to think of every detail that the busy speech therapist would like to have taken care of. We have included 3-ring binder covers, student information and goal pages, homework sheets, and caregiver sound reminder cards. We have even added a /SH/ sound cue card and a page on how to elicit the /SH/ sound!

And then the fun really begins... That's because each worksheet has been developed to keep the student busy and entertained while practicing their speech sound. Every sheet is designed for the student to make a dot with a paint dotter/dauber or to mark with a marker. Some worksheets incorporate the use of one die. We know that kids love to roll dice and we know that dice can be found quite cheaply at the local Dollar Store! Each worksheet is engaging and different. The student will have so much fun trying out each page, that they will forget that they are even working on on their speech sound in a repetitive fashion.

We hope that you find this articulation packet to be just what you were wanting and waiting for! Thank you so much for stopping by our store today and best wishes to you and your students as they progress in their articulation therapy goals.

Manda Riebel, M.A. CCC-SLP &
Shanda Gaunt, M.S. CCC-SLP













Thursday, February 27, 2014

Favorite Therapy Item Thursday -> Year Round Literature For Language And Artic Resource Book Post Written by Laura from All Y'all Need

We are privileged to have our talented speech-language pathologist friend from Texas, Laura, from All Y'all Need guest post today about her favorite therapy item. This literature resource book looks super valuable and we think it looks like one we would all love to have available all year long for book themed therapy session ideas .  Thank you to Laura for this wonderful post!! 
Sincerely,
Manda & Shanda




Hi! I'm Laura, and with my sister Amy and cousin Lisa, part of All Y'all Need. I'm excited to be here with the Twin Sisters today discussing my favorite therapy item. It's actually a resource book:

Seems boring, I know. But out of all the therapy products I have, Year-Round Literature for Language and Artic has made the most difference in my therapy. From this book, I have a whole bookshelf of books for therapy and four packed filing-cabinet drawers of grab-and-go materials.

I started working in the schools in 1993, right around the time thematic units started booming, and I loved it! I love books and look for any way to use them in therapy, and it's so easy to plan around a central theme.  Year-Round was the first book that really broke down the information into ways I could use books to address the multiple goals in groups. Here's an inside page:

Each unit has three books and several games - perfect for targeting multiple goals in groups. I even went a little crazy with Boardmaker and file folders because some of my Functional Academics students needed visuals.

To make these, I used an icon for each question and then answer icons have Velcro so they come on and off.

In this example, the snowball, path, and pocket are glued onto the manila folder. During a group, I take off the Velcroe'd pictures and pass them out according to goals. For example, a student working on /k/ would get the /walk/ card, and a student working on verbs would get the /throw/ card. Then, I say, "What is a snowball used for?" and we look at our cards and match up the answers to the questions.

Then, I make it a little harder with three choices, like this one for categories:

Sometimes, I pass out the cards one at a time to students, and other times, they get a whole bunch, depending on the group. It is so easy to target artic and language with these activities!

I also have Velcroe'd sentences where students have to arrange the cards to make sentences. For my FA students in particular, we talk about how the uppercase letter is the first card, the period is the last card, and then work on filling in the middle. We get a lot of discrimination and sequencing with the sentences.

It was a lot of work to set these up, but I now have multiple themes and four drawers to grab the folders from. A lot of preparation time then has turned into a huge time saver now. I've gotten a little lazy in recent years and haven't made as many file folders. But since I've done these units so much, it's much easier to come up with my own questions, and I've learned that my kindergartners and 1st graders need to be sequencing words in sentences, especially sight words, so I don't use as many pictures. But I still use these units frequently with my FA students. Most of my students come twice a week, so we do these activities the first day and then a game the second day to narrow down targets, and I really like that pattern.

There are so many resources now through Teachers pay Teachers and bloggers that are in my inventory of supplies. Year-Round Literature for Language and Artic is still a valuable resource for addressing multiple goals in a group and can be a springboard for incorporating more books into therapy, and it's still my go-to when planning. If you like using books in therapy, consider this resource.

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Most Wished For Speech Therapy Materials at Teachers pay Teachers - Spring of 2014!



The big sale is coming to Teachers pay Teachers on February 27th, 2014 and it will last until the end of the day on February 28th.  Most TpT sellers will put their documents on sale for 10 to 20% off and Teachers pay Teachers will take an additional 8% off the total purchase price.  That means that a tremendous savings on purchased documents will be possible - up to 28% off the cover price!  These big sales are super popular and they happen to be the time that most people empty out their TpT wishlist baskets and stock up on beneficial documents to be used all year long!  You may be wondering what documents would be the best ones to have in your own wishlist baskets this Spring?  I know I was wondering this very thing, and that is why I asked my fellow speech-language pathologist TpT authors and bloggers to provide me with a list of some of the most wish-listed items from their own stores.  This is so I could compile a nice cheat sheet for my own shopping and also provide what I think is a helpful list meant for you too!  

Please see the list on the blog for a description of each item and also download the PDF document HERE for a closer look at the cover pages of each mentioned document.  Hyperlinks are provided on the post descriptions and on the pictures of each cover page on the PDF titled: 

Springtime Speech Therapy Document Wishlist With Links! -free handout

(that will be posted to TPT).  

Again, I hope you enjoy the following list of some of the most wished for items from the Teachers pay Teachers stores authored by talented Speech-Language Pathologists for the up-incoming springtime of 2014.   Get ready to fill your carts with a pot of gold of documents as you hop into wonderful savings on useful documents for a variety of age groups for your classroom or therapy rooms this springtime! 

Manda, SLP
Twin Sisters Speech 
&Language Therapy LLC

1) Head to Autumn-Bryant Speech Language Investigator's store to pick up this document for the junior to high school level student.  It provides some wonderful speech homework sheets for the summer! 
This handy packet includes everything you need for students to practice their language skills and word-final articulation over the summer:- 12 weekly language activities (four each for June, July, & August)- 30 probes for final /s/ words- 30 probes for final /z/ wordsArticulation score card to show students/parents what level to practice (e.g., word level, phrase, level, sentence level, etc.) "Rhyme-Master" Bookmarks to help kids find words that rhyme with their target word (giving them a plethora of additional words that end with their target speech sounds). This is great for working on final /r/ variants! Just write down a sample word (e.g., "air") and use the Rhyme-master slide rule to find many more words that end with the same sound (e.g., bear, care, dare, fair, hair, and so on!)View demo on You tube Prefix-Finder, Root-Finder, Suffix-Finder Bookmarks to help students find words that have the same root but different prefixes/suffixes or the same prefixes or suffixes but different root words.



2) Hop over to Gold Country SLP's TpT store in order to pick up this wonderful book companion document    that is jam packed with grammar and language tasks to go with the book, Hopper Hunts for Spring. 













This packet is FULL of language activities designed to target MANY specific goals! Included in this packet:
Sequencing cards Level 1 Pictures OnlySequencing Cards Level 2 Pictures & TextSequencing Cards Level 3 Text Only Sequencing Temporal Word CardsStory Re-Tell PropsWh-Question Comprehension Cards Eliciting Wh-Questions Prompt CardsCreatures that Hibernate – Picture CardsCreatures that Hibernate – Label CardsSpringtime Flowers – Picture CardsSpringtime Flowers – Label Cards Springtime Flowers – Description Cards Grammar Check Cards (Receptive ) – Present Progressive/Copular Forms Grammar Check Cards (Receptive) – Third person, present tense Present Progressive Verb Cards  Pronoun Cards Grammar Check Sentence Frames (Expressive) – Present Progressive Tense (singular) Grammar Check Sentence Frames (Expressive) – Past Progressive Tense (singular)Grammar Check Sentence Frames (Expressive) – Present Progressive Tense (singular) Grammar Check Sentence Frames (Expressive) – Past Progressive Tense (singular)Regular Past Tense Verbs Irregular Past Tense Verbs Sort ‘n’ Write Write ‘n’ Say Sentences Synonym Cards Antonym Cards“Spring” Idioms and Figurative Language Cards Where is Hopper? (Preposition Cards)Barrier Game Suggestions, Props and Mat Generic Game Board

3) Another wonderful product from Gold Country SLP called: Spring Complex Sentence Builder

Included in this packet:
Spring Noun Cards – 48 cards Spring Verb Cards – 32 cards Spring Adjective Cards – 32 cards
Spring Connector Word Cards – 24 cards Spring Sentence Builder Task Cards – 24 cards
Generic Spring Game Board
Suggested use: Review all vocabulary with the student(s). Separate the cards into piles. You can design the task to fit the needs of your student. You can have them draw a certain number of cards from each pile to make up a sentence. Students can draw a Spring Sentence Builder Task Card and select vocabulary cards accordingly to create a sentence. The Game Board can be used to add pacing and motivation.


4) A couple of brand new documents from Twin Sisters Speech & Language Therapy LLC

St. Patrick's Day SUPER SIZED Lucky Language, Literacy, & Speech Packet




This is a SUPER SIZED packet (120 pages) full of everything you will need for treating your pre-k to grade school students. It is packed full of a ton of super fun, engaging, and useful speech, language and literacy activities, games, and worksheets that all have a colorful and fun St. Patrick's Day theme to them. 
In addition, are the 25 brand new black and white worksheets that were just added in the latest revision. These wonderful worksheets will save you on printer ink and will require NO PREP!! Yay!












We have included more than 100 quick to print and practice articulation sheets in this St. Patrick’s Day- Themed document and we decided to target some of the most commonly worked on sounds with grade school speech kiddos. The sounds included in this very comprehensive packet are: l, r, s, sh, th, and v. We start at the consonant level and then add the cv, word, phrase and sentence levels! Also, you will find that the sounds are targeted at the initial, medial and final positions of words.



6) Check out the store that Christy Jones has because you won't want to miss her new documents for working on articulation and phonological awareness. 
PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS K-1 Quick Warm Ups

Phonological awareness skills are necessary skills to work on with children learning to read. These workouts are appropriate for K to 1st Grade. These workouts go along with the Reading Standards: Foundational Skills. These can be used individually for warm ups at the beginning of a lesson or with any open ended game. Laminate, cut and put a hole in the top left corner of each page. Use a binder ring to hold them together. Hang the booklet on a hook for easy access. I am also going to use these when I push into the kindergarten class. Cards are color coded and numbered developmentally. Beginning to Middle of K = Blue Middle to End of K = Pink 1st = Green

Great Game! This is a Tic-Tac-Toe game.It uses riddles. It works on articulation sounds in all positions of words. Sounds included are th, ch, sh, s, r, l, k, and s blends. It is appropriate for Kindergarten to 2nd Grade. An answer key is included. The cards can also be used with any open ended game. FUN FOR ALL!

8) Visit SLPrunner's store to pick up a wonderful figurative language unit and an EET companion for working on describing skills.  They both look terrific! 











A jam-packed product with eight activities of higher level language. 
This packet is made with the tween-teen student in mind. It's loaded with fun activities working on the frontal lobe of the brain. 
Also included are data point pages from baseline to mastery of the following skills: multiple meaning words, inferencing, similes, metaphors, idioms, emotions/perspective taking.



Dazzling Daisies provides a fun way for students to improve expression by labeling attributes for common objects. Three activities are included. Contents: 20 printable daisies, 20 color daisies for dry-erase, create-your-own, 2 cueing daisies, 10 picture cards, bulletin board templates, and a writing page. This product may stand alone or is a great companion when used with the incredible Expanding Expression Tool.

10) Need some terrific new social skills documents?  How about stopping by Bright Ideas SLP's store to pick up these two terrific products! 


TONE OF VOICE: TEXT MESSAGES



This product contains the following: 40 text messages cards, 2 sorting mats: Rude! or Friendly!
5 Homework Sheets. Our tone of voice sometimes says more than our words. It is important to listen to the tone of voice AND the words in order to understand what someone is saying. The tone of voice changes the message and what the person is trying to say.


This packet includes:
Inferences: Print out the blue and green grocery lists. Your mom left you a grocery list, but you don’t know what it is for! Use your predictions skills to infer about what the list may be used for.
Category Sort: Print out the food cards and organization Sort the grocery items into their respective grocery carts. Categories include: Fruits, Breakfast Foods, Junk Foods, Vegetables, Dairy, and Condiments. Listening Lists: Print out the grocery bag and grocery cart mat. Print out multiple copies of the food items. One player/SLP reads the grocery list. The other player listens and puts the items heard into the grocery cart. Pink lists= related items; Orange lists = unrelated items. After the player 1 reads the list, player 2 adds the items into their grocery bag or grocery cart. The player with the most correct items in their bag/ cart, wins! Grocery Store Pragmatics: 22 social scenarios related to a trip to the grocery store. Answer how you should respond in certain situations.

12) Straight Up Speech is always making terrific documents.  Come and take a look at these two great ones! 



50 Token Boards – 18 circles each (4 winter, 4 Valentine, 4 St. Patrick’s Day, 4 Easter, 4 Summer, 4 Memorial Day/Fourth of July/Labor Day, 4 Back-to-School, 4 Fall, 6 Halloween, 6 
Thanksgiving, 6 Christmas) **Hanukkah and Kwanzaa to be added Fall 2014. Designed for use with magnetic chips/wands or with a variety of tokens (coins, candy, bingo chips, etc.)


This 13-page download contains the following: 48 Compare/Contrast PairsList of all pairs included in activity questions to consider when comparing/contrasting. Open-ended game board
For older students, ask them read pairs of words and then compare/contrast each pair. 
For younger students, ask them what is the same about the two words and what is different.


14) Look at this terrific document from Wide World of Speech Therapy! 

Basic Auditory Comprehension "Build-A-Cone" Pack - Speech Therapy











This yummy set targets basic auditory comprehension & memory of 1- to 4-step directions.  One- and 2-step directions may be simple to mildly complex. Three- and 4-step directions are simple only. More than 140 direction cards in all!


15) Head to Tech n' Talks SLPs for these AWESOME document choices! 

Look What You CAN Do (printable version)

With this product your students CAN do so many things! And, you will have 100 different ways to praise them for their great work. This product is great for language development, but is also great for structured sentences for fluency practice or can be used to elicit articulation practice for K.....that's 100 times to use the /k/ sound in the word 'CAN'. This includes 100 printable cards, each targeting a different action word. Students will look at three images on a card and will respond to a target verb request, i.e., "Find something you can pull." They will then choose the item that coordinates with that action and produce a statement, i.e., "I can pull a wagon."









Speech Therapy Articulation Practice Pack for Apraxia includes
1. Printable set of 25 VC practice cards with illustrations, words, phrases, and sentences
2. Printable set of 25 CV practice cards with illustrations, words, phrases, and sentences
3. Printable set of 100 CVC practice cards with illustrations, words, phrases, and sentences
4. Printable set of 50 CVCV practice cards with illustrations, words, phrases, and sentences
5. Printable set of 50 CVCVC practice cards with illustrations, words, phrases, and sentences
6. Printable set of 25 three syllable practice cards with illustrations, words, phrases, and sentences
7. Printable set of 25 four syllable practice cards with illustrations, words, phrases, and sentences
8. 1 tic tac toe board for each (vc, cv, cvc, cvcv, cvcvc, 3 syllable, 4 syllable)
9. 1 open ended game board (print or use in iBooks)
10. iBooks for vc and cv, cvc, cvcv, cvcvc, multisyllabic (iBooks include the same pictures, words, phrases, and sentences as the practice cards…just in book form)
All of the tic-tac-toe boards and the open-ended game board can be printed or can be saved to iBooks for iPad users, eliminating the need to print. Use your iPad as the game board. Instructions for downloading to iBooks are included in the product instructions. 
The packet includes a total of 8 games (game board and tic-tac-toe boards), 300 apraxia practice cards, and the 6 apraxia practice books with a total of 60 practice pages.

17) And everyone is talking about these great finds over at the Schoolhouse Talks store! 


Understanding of story grammar elements and the ability to retell stories coherently are essential tools for children of all ages. Use these picture prompt cards for teaching story grammar elements and the skills needed to retell stories effectively. This document includes activities to target grammar and reading.  It's terrific! 

These Itty-Bitty books provide a fun way for your students to practice their target sounds by creating their own mini book to take home! This activity includes instructions and book templates for students to color and practice S-Blends. Most words have s-blends in the initial position of the word, but some targets are in medial or final positions. Great practice for any student PreK through Elementary age. Included in the Download: pg. 1: Cover Page and Credits pg. 2: Instructions pg. 3: SK book pg. 4: SL book pg. 5: SM book pg. 6: SN book pg. 7: SP book
pg. 8: ST book pg. 9: SW book. This is a great resource for speech-language pathologists, teachers, and parents.

19) The fabulous and fun Mia McDaniel has these two great documents ready for your purchase!

Easter Around the World {reading and responding to non-fiction text} and more!



Incorporate Easter traditions from around the world into your reading or language lessons (or speech/language therapy sessions!) For nonreaders, this can be used as a great listening comprehension activity! Includes 22 short passages discussing various Easter celebrations with 2-3 corresponding critical thinking questions per passage. Questions require students to use skills ranging from simple recall, comparing, contrasting and making personal connections to deciphering vocabulary in context, drawing conclusions, giving opinions, and justifying responses with evidence. A whole range of critical thinking skills can be applied! Also includes: 
- a writing prompt so students can respond to read material in writing
- a VENN diagram so students can compare and contrast traditions 
- 2 Easter board games for use with any dice/spinner and gamepieces
- an Easter art activity requiring knowledge of capitalization, 
punctuation, sentence formation and grammar rule. Passages can be used with individual students, for partner reading, or for group discussion. The cards with the reading passages can be used to play various games (instructions included). Just print, (laminate if you wish), cut and use!










This comprehensive unit includes 21 pages of activities to use after reading Eric Carle's classic book- extra condensed to use as little paper as possible. Includes: - all the small pictures needed to adapt the book and make communication boards- includes activities teaching and assessing numerous basic concepts- all you need to play barrier games that address basic concepts, following directions, & allow for practicing articulation and fluency skills in connected speech- all the visuals you need to address retelling and sequencing - 66 question cards to accompany the book including yes/no, wh-questions, and more- cute caterpillar to for your little ones to "feed!"
- phonemic awareness pages addressing beginning sounds, ending sounds and syllables- colorful, original game board to use for motivation with the skill cards or articulation or fluency drill. - caterpillar coloring sheet -make your own dice or fruit spinner!

21) Kathy Grover over at Speech All The Time is always busy making fabulous new documents.  Here are two to grab for this springtime for sure! 



This book companion is designed to teach preschool level students to do simple oral narratives or story retells. It utilizes the six early literacy skills of vocabulary, print motivation, print awareness, narrative skills, letter knowledge, and phonological awareness. 
Targeted skills embedded in the activities includes preposition/location words, sequencing, classification/categorization, multiple levels of comprehension tasks, and fine and gross motor components for mulit-modality learning.
The pack is 24 pages long and contains 3 days of lessons, 15 story retell/sequence cards, 6 preposition word cards, an "Animal" mat with 10 picture cards, a "Things that are Red" mat with 8 picture cards, a "Places to Walk" mat with 8 picture cards, 14 vocabulary picture cards of things that are on Rosie's farm, and a template and instructions for making chicken and fox puppets.


This packet is designed for children who have significant difficulty with motor planning for sound and syllable production. It provides students the opportunity for multiple practices within a session. The activities are based on an approach which uses words rather than nonsense syllables to help develop functional vocabulary skills for very young or nonverbal children. 
Included in the packet are 13 Cue Cards for the sounds /p/, /b/, /w/, /m/, /n/, /t/, /d/, /k/, /g/, /s/, /f/, /sh/, and /l/.
Each sound has associated word picture cards (a total of 99 cards) which target CV, VC, CVC, and CVCV syllable patterns. Consonant sounds in each words contain only the target sound in this activity. A later packet will be available for words and phrases for multiple sound combination strings.

23) The Dabblingspeechie store is full of wonderful documents.  How about checking out these two great docs for working on social skills?!



Suggested Use for this packet:-Carryover of social skills by targeting one scenario daily. Lessons are meant to take 5-10 minutes of time.-Quickly target social skills during groups containing students with a variety of goals (i.e., artic, grammar, and pragmatic language). Students working on other goals can participate as peer models. -Remaining time during the session can focus on the other needs/goals within the group.-For General Education and Special Education Teachers to use in their classrooms as daily mini lessons to work on social skills in between instruction time and to promote generalization of social skills across the school day.


Read the social scenario cards and then brainstorm as a group what the different people could be thinking. You can write with dry erase marker Page 2-3: Teacher Thinking visual and scenario cards Page 4-5: Farmer Thinking visual and scenario cards Page 6-7: Ellie thinking visual and scenario cards Pages 8-9: Riley thinking visual and scenario cards Page 10-11: Blank sheet to put your face/picture there. Blank scenario cards to fill in situations you are currently facing in your classrooms.Tone of voice lesson Page 13: Visual/explanation of what ‘tone of voice’ means Page 14: Emotion cards Page 15: Blank set for other emotions
Page 16-18: School-themed sentence phrases to practice saying different tones of voice.
Birthday Gift Giving Perspective skills activity Page 20: Birthday gift giving social story Page 21-24: Brainstorming worksheets to figure out other people’s interests and gifts they would want
Page 25-26: Blank sheets to brainstorm for other people that would be specific to the particular student.Having a Conversation about other people's Interests lesson Page 28: Social story about having a conversation Page 29: Definition and examples of Questions Page 30: Definition and example of comments Page 31: Visual graphic of topics to help with explaining the term Page 32-33: Brainstorming worksheet sPage 34: Visual poster for skills needed to complete a conversation
What’s Missing? Identifying the missing skills from social situationsPage 36: Directions for the activity to figure out what is missing from each social scenarioPage 37-38: Social scenario cards
Page 39: Answer keyWhat’s the impression?
Activity Lesson Guide Listen to the social situations to figure out what kind of impression the person is making on others. You can have them tell you the reasons or clues that make them think that. They can also brainstorm what the person could do to change the impression.
Page 41: Explaining what is an impressionPage 42-43: Social situation stimulus cards
Page 44: Answer keyExpected vs. Unexpected activity
Page 47-50: Social scenario cards Page 51: Visual sorting mat to put scenario cards in the expected vs. unexpected spot.Page 52: Visual expected vs. unexpected cards. These cards are designed for the therapist to take data during the therapy session on a student’s behavior. This also serves as a visual reminder to be expected in the group. Every time the student is being expected, you can put a check, plus, line, etc. in one of the expected behavior slots. Every time the student is being unexpected, you can put a check, plus, line, etc. in one of the unexpected behavior slots. This way you don’t have to stop therapy to correct the student and you are still giving them feedback about their behavior.

25) Here's another document from Autumn Bryant Speech Language Investigator (please see #1 on the list for her other great document).

Modern Vocalic R Sentences - These aren't your Grandma's R probes















This document contains 180 vocalic /r/ sentences are placed on a pre-made grid so you can easily keep track of your data (in chunks of 5 or 10 repetitions).


26) Speech Universe has provided these two great documents!



Kindergarten Common Core Daily Language Workout


This product was designed as a daily oral language workout for Kindergarten students based on Common Core State Standards. It can be used by a speech-language pathologist or classroom teacher. This is a 10 week program developed to track intervention for possible language delays. Included in this packet:State Standard Checklist. This is a guide to the state standards that are covered in this packet. As you complete a task, you can place a tally in the completed box. Pre/Post Test. This may be completed for each student you are working with. It will give you an idea of how the student is performing on the state standards that are covered in this packet.
Daily Workout Sheets and note sheets.


This is an activity that utilizes QR codes to check student answers. You must have a QR reader on an iPad, iTouch, smartphone, or other tablet/device. You can find many different free versions at the app store.The activities focus on inferences. Students will use inference skills to solve simple problems.All activities have 16 different items. There are two cards for each item. One that contains a choice of three answers, and one that does not have a choice of answers. All answers can be checked using a QR code reader.

27) Visit Speech-A-Saurus for these two super good products! 













This activity focuses on social problem solving in four every day locations: home, school, the grocery store, and a restaurant. The activity is geared toward middle school and high school students and is presented in an age appropriate format. There are 12 social problem solving scenario that occur the home, 18 social problem solving scenarios that occur in the grocery store, 12 social problem solving scenarios that occur in school, and 12 social problem solving scenarios that occur at a restaurant. These scenarios can be used to target social problem solving and reasoning. They can also be used to rate problems on a 1-5 scale, discuss expected and unexpected behaviors, discuss how to avoid problems in the future, discuss body language, and relate the scenarios to students' personal experiences. There are several suggestions for use as well as a game board that can be used with the social problem solving scenario cards.

28) Figurative Language - Idioms




Idioms can be confusing to students who do not understand figurative language and many students with speech and language disabilities need direct instruction on this topic. This product targets figurative language-idioms. It contains 36 commonly used idioms and their definitions in a "deck" format.It also contains a pre/post test data collection page to help monitor student progress. The cute graphics and game suggestions help keep students engaged!


29) Visit Jenna Rayburn's Speech Room News store for these two super cute and useful gems! 

Carrotville: Spring Expressive Language Games












This 38 page download features Carrotville, a nice little town where bunnies live and play. It features homes, apartments, a grocery store and even a bunny barbershop! The activities center around the Carrotville board game. Two ways to play are included. The first option features specific skill development, while the second features carryover of language skills by targeting mixed stimulus cards. Game point and score cards are included. Each type of building corresponds to a language activity to complete. When students land on a building they answer the corresponding questions.

The games are called 'In your shoes.' The download includes 3 games: Problem Solving 1 & 2 and Perspective Taking. They feature these cute shoe graphics from KPM doodles. The problem solving games include social situations that require the student to identify a solution. I use this large graphic in the middle of the table to remind the kids to identify the problem and the solution! The game cards are tennis shoes with a social problem listed. For example: A new student came to school today. He’s standing near the lunch line looking nervous.. What could you do? The level one cards are appropriate for students in grades k-4, but depending on developmental level they may work for your older students as well. Level 2 problem solving includes social problems appropriate for students in grades 4-8. For example: Chad wants to play football and be in band. They have practice after school at the same time. What should he do?
The perspective taking cards encourage kids to imagine themselves in someone else's shoes! You can use them to open discussion about empathy and making decisions based on others feelings. Theory of mind is such a difficult skill to teach, but it's fun when it clicks! The lack of perspective taking skills can really impact the kids ability to be sensitive to others and identify how others are feeling and reacting in a conversation. The shoe cards each have a social situation. The students can identify how different people in the situation would feel. For example: Kennedy and Jordan both had their birthday parties last week and you only went to Kennedy’s. How does Jordan feel?The games each come with these ' Gum on your Shoes' cards. They can help make the activity seem like more of a game if you need to use them! 

31) Visit The Speech Bubble's store for these two wished for documents! 


Students cannot survive on definitions alone. With the shift to common core, students are going to be expected to use their deductive skills to determine word meanings. Cooking Up Context Clues targets the this skill. There are 42 multiple choice cards and two ways to play:
1: Students choose a card. If they answer correctly they may keep the card and add it to their mat. The first student to collect one of each picture on their mat wins.
2: Students choose a card. If they answer correctly they may keep the card. Watch out for cards that cause you to lose a card and for ones that allow you to go again.











Here is what is inside the book companion:
Print and laminate book. Assemble book so that text is on the left and the large color splash page is on the right. Laminate pages and cards. Cut cards. 
Read, ‘ A Colorful You ’ to your students. Keep the book out and available for reference.
pg 3. Match the color idiom to its meaning. The idiom and meaning are color coded for easy checking. There are 4 idioms and one meaning for each. 
pg 4-11. Use the included feeling/color identification pages to help students understand each color/emotion. Have students fill out each page. Once they have completed all the pages they will have a reference book of basic emotions. 
pg 12-15. Lay cards face up on the table. Have students match the emotions to the correct color. There are three emotion words for each color. Emotions are the same color as the color they correspond to.
pg 16. Use the description web to help students map out events that trigger particular emotions.
pg 17-23. Read the story to your students. Have them identify which color/emotion the child in the story is feeling. They can then state/write synonyms that would describe that students emotion. There is one work sheet for each color.

33) You will NEVER go wrong buying a document from Jenn Alcorn from Crazy Speech World's Store! 



Common Core Speaking & Listening Rating Scales are informal evaluation tools to help determine education impact of speech & language disorders in the classroom, as well as to aide in documenting standard mastery, therapy baselines and post lines, or progress monitoring from grade to grade. I also plan to use this with my older students for self evaluation.
Included in the download:
•Teacher letter template (page 4)
•Completed Rating Form Example (pages 5-6)
•K-5 Rating Scales (pages 7-19)
•Student Summary Sheet (page 20)












Included in this download:
•Tufts & Trunks (pages 3-8)- a matching game with 12 tuft cards, 12 trunk cards, and 12 penalty cards. Students will match trunks to tufts to make trees...whoever can make the most will be the winner!
•Tuft to Tuft (page 9)- Jump though the whimsy trees! A game board, just add game pieces and dice.
•Cupcake Challenge (pages 10-16) - a card game with 43 point cards and 9 penalty cards. Students will draw cards to collect points, be the one with the most points at the end to win! 
•Rainbow Run (page 17)- Help the leprechaun find his gold! A game board, just add game pieces and dice. 
•Blooming Gardens (pages 18-25) - a card game with student mat, with 64 flower cards and 8 penalty cards. The student who collects all the flowers in their garden first, wins!
•Garden Stroll (page 26)- Take a stroll through the garden in spring! A game board, just add game pieces and dice.

35) Head to Speech Sprouts to see her latest docs! 


My Five Little Ducks Speech Therapy Unit Contents:
1. Five Little Ducks Flipbook with interactive pieces
2. A Flannelboard Storytelling Set for cookie sheet activities/ flannel board story telling.
3. 7 Act it Out! Visors for dramatic story retell.
4. Sequence Vocabulary Color Sheet 
5. Make-a-Scene Pond and Farm Cookie Sheet Past-Tense Verb Practice. 
6. 18 Wh? question cards, 12 Yes/No question cards with question mats
7. Category Sort –sort animals in a folder game or use as a cut and paste printable.
8. 20 Final /k/ Articulation CVC Cards with Rhyming pairs and minimal pairs. Mats included.
9. Final /k/ Articulation Home Practice page with name to a description activity. 
10. Quack! Go Back! Game- open-ended for any target
11. Pick and Peek! Game with picture windows to reveal a mystery picture
12. Do-a Dot Page
13. Auditory Bombardment PowerPoint file with pictures and narrated words.
14. Lesson Plans including themed You Tube links, book list, suggestions for art, games, activities and snacks.
15. Minibook for home practice 


Articulation, Riddles, and Savings too! Want to target everyone's goals at once in speech therapy? You need Animal Bingo Riddles Bundle for R, L, and S! Over 20% off the individual products. This money-saving bundle includes three products: Animal Bingo Riddles LAnimal Bingo Riddles R, and Animal Bingo Riddles S. This set is for 1-24 players. 
Guess the riddles and increase vocabulary and listening comprehension for details while practicing articulation in all word positions and blends. Then write your own riddle and have fun taking turns guessing the answers. 
This pack is perfect for speech therapy, small group, RTi vocabulary intervention or a whole class listening activity! Great for a wide range of ages, from vocabulary learning for littles to listening comprehension and articulation practice for older students. 


37) Speech Language Pirates is another terrific store to visit very, very, soon! 
Superhero Syntax














This thorough and comprehensive syntax pack is perfect for students who need to work on understanding grammar. It covers a variety of grammatical structures from simple to complex, so it's perfect for all of your groups! It can also be used for simple reading comprehension, for students who have marked difficulty with understanding simple sentences they've read, such as the ASD population.Contents:Pronouns: Subjective– Slides 1-8 Pronouns: Objective/possessive – Slides 9-16 Nouns: Slides 17-24 Verbs: tenses – Slides 25-32 Basic Concepts: Location – Slides 33-40 Basic Concepts: Size (comparatives/superlatives) - Slides 41-48 Compound/Complex Sentences: Slides 49-56 Passive Voice: Slides 57-64N egation: slides 65-72 Data Collection Sheet: page 75 written prompts (for reading comprehension task): pages 76-84 Flip Book Covers: page 85



This Speech and Language bundle contains 4 book companions:

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Speech Language Companion
If You Give a Pig a Pancake Speech Language Companion
If You Take a Mouse to School Speech Language Companion
If You Give a Moose a Muffin Speech Language Companion

39) Head to Speech2U.  She is always providing new and useful documents! 

Nothing MINIMAL about these PAIRS is the first mega set of minimal pairs activities. Minimal pairs are a great way to teach students to discriminate sounds receptively and expressively. The /s/ Blend packet includes activities for : /sn/, /sm/, /sl/, /sp/, /sk/, and /st/. 

19 Pages of Minimal pairs for 50 total minimal pairs (ex. skate/Kate) 
6 Pages of Activity suggestions for a total of 90 different activities
6 Pages of Minimal pair sentences for home or school.
6 pages /s/ Blend rebus stories
5 Black and White Homework pages for minimal pairs
Sorting Mat


Zombies have HORRIBLE pragmatic skills...but you don't have to. This is a HUGE packet with activities to address: personal space, boundaries, nonverbal gestures/postures, personal hygiene, inflection/tone of voice. It would be appropriate for children who need to work on social skills, children on the Autism spectrum and children with nonverbal language difficulties. 
It's designed for children in mid-upper elementary but may also work with children in middle school who are working on Life Skills.

41) Speech Snacks is always cooking up the best kind of documents! Buy one today! 

Scrambled Eggs! {For Categorizing & Figurative and Humorous Language}



Included in this packet are:
1- EGG-spressions includes 12 egg-themed idioms and 12 matching definitions. 
2- Cat-EGG-ories: 16 categories and 16 matching answers. Cut the cards into two halves on the solid lines. Scramble up the halves. Students must match the correct top half to the correct bottom half. These cards are versatile. Use them to have players guess the category when only given a bottom half or conversely, guess words to fit in the category given on the top half. 
3-EGG-stremely funny crack-ups: includes 12 joke cards and 12 answer cards. Play the same as a matching game. Scramble up the cards. Players need to find the correct answer to the jokes (all egg-themed) and then explain the joke in order to keep the pair. Add your eggs to the basket provided. 
Use the additional eggs/chocolate rabbit cards to collect more 
A collectible speechsnacks recipe card for “Bird’s Nest Cookies” has been provided. The recipes are the inspiration behind the speech/language activities! Collect them all in a three-ring binder! This recipe is kid-centered and good for you! Enjoy!


Help your students identify and define figurative language concepts with this fun St. Patty’s themed packet. Packet includes “leprechaun loot” which students earn when they have responded to one of the figurative language cards (idioms, similes or metaphors.)
Pg 5 includes a Figurative language review sheet with a definition and example sentence for idioms, similes and metaphors for use before and/or during the game. Pgs 6-7: 12 idiom coins
Pg 8: one blank page of coins to add your own idioms pgs 9-10: 12 brown pots of gold with definitions to match with an idiom coin Pg 11—blank pots of gold to add your own definitions Pgs 12-13: 12 black pots of gold fill-in-the-blank sentences to go with gold coin idioms Pg 14: blank black pots of gold Pgs 15-18: 24 “Emerald Isle” similes with “like” and “as” to use for discussing and understanding the meanings Pg 19: blank Irish top hats Pg 20: “Simile Starters” with 10 helpful words given to create your own similes Pg 21-23: 18 “Lucky Horseshoe” metaphors for understanding/defining/discussion.Pg 24: blank horseshoes for adding your own metaphors Pg 25: 10 Make your own metaphors practice sheet Pgs 26-29: “Leprechaun Loot” with 2 pages of $1,$5, $10 values and 2 pages of $20, $50 and $100 values Pgs 30-31: idiom answer key
Pg 32: SpeechSnacks collectible recipe for “Gaelic-Garlic Pesto Shamrock Bread”


43) Get everything you need for therapy from All Y'all Need! 

Superhero Spatial Strategies














Spatial terms can be conquered using these Superhero Spatial Strategies!
-30+ page unit of activities
4 fun activities for learning or reinforcing the following spatial terms: in front of; behind; right; left; through; upside down; middle; above/over; under; inside; outside; bottom; next to/beside; before; after; on/on top; in/into; and in between.
Activity #1: Seeing Superhero Spatial Terms
-a great game to be used to used to on a pocket chart or as a whole group review
-special directions provided for Speech Language Pathologists
Activity #2: Where is the Superhero?
-a great matching activity for vocabulary
-students must match the illustration with the correct spatial term
-illustrations are the same ones used in Activity #1, but vocabulary words are on separate cards so students must make the match
Activity #3: Superhero Signals
-students get to enjoy acting like a superhero
-directional cues are given for each spatial term
-students must listen actively and perform a task using spatial terms
-this activity gets students up and moving while learning all about spatial terms
Activity #4: Superhero Say and Write the Room
-14 superhero spatial vocabulary cards to print and post around your room
- one recording sheet for students to say the vocabulary word and write the vocabulary word
-one labeling page of spatial concepts: above, behind, inside, left, middle, next to, on top, right and under.

44) Holidays January to June Informative Reader's Theater



Reader’s Theater is always fun. Now, it is fun and informative.
Holiday set #2 is all about American Holidays from January to June.
This set includes over 300 pages
Each holiday includes:
1 graphic organizer and/or activity (some holidays have 2 activities)
1 full script in black and white with Character Cards
1 full script in color with Character Cards
Holidays Happen: an introduction to holidays includes script plus graphic organizer
New Year’s Day: script plus New Year’s Resolution page
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: script plus informational activity on MLK National Memorial 
Chinese New Year: script plus fact Facts About Chinese New Year recording page and Animals of the Chinese Zodiac activity page
Groundhog Day: script plus ABC Order Activity and Prediction and Weather Report Page
Valentine’s Day: script plus “My Favorite Thing About Valentines Day” activity & Facts About Valentine’s Day recording page
Presidents’ Day: script plus “The President of the United States Should Be” activity to list adjectives important to the President.
Saint Patrick’s Day: script plus computerized graphic organizer activity and ABC Order Activity
Easter: script plus ABC Order Activity and Facts About Easter page
April Fool’s Day: script plus ABC Order Activity and joke page
Earth Day: script plus How I Can Help Our Earth activity page and ABC Order activity
Arbor Day: script plus sorting activity of items that grow on trees or do not grow on trees
May Day: script plus May Day Word Search
Cinco de Mayo: script plus drawing activity and ABC Order activity
Mother’s Day: script plus finish the drawing activity and Mother’s Day word search
Memorial Day: script plus Memorial Day Fact Recording Page
Flag Day: script plus Flag Day Facts page and United States Flag Code Facts recording page
Father’s Day: script plus finish the drawing activity and Father’s Day word search
For a look at what is included in this set, please download the preview file.


45) Fly on over to Super Power Speech to get some wonderful documents! 
Bundle: Spring Up with Language


Wow! THREE amazing SPRING units bundled together. Each unit covers SIX areas and includes 12 activities and 6 worksheets!
Spring Up with Language Level 1
Spring Up with Language Level 2
Spring Up with Language Level 3
These are leveled as follows:Level 1: PreK-1st grade Level 2: 2nd-3rd grade Level 3: 4th-5th+ grade. These levels and activities correlate exactly with my Speech and Language Homework for a YearEach packet includes a Receptive Activity, Expressive Activity, and Worksheet for 6 different language concepts. At LEAST 12 sessions of new activities (and worksheets!) for all of your speech, special education, and/or ELL students. You can't go wrong with this bundle for all your SPRING language needs!




86 pages (43 for each book) of Speech and Language goodness to accompany the books "Click, Clack, Moo" and "Giggle, Giggle Quack" by Doreen Cronin (books not included).
These units can be used separately or together to reinforce almost a month's worth of therapy for: Vocabulary, Grammar, Perspective Taking, Story Sequencing, and Articulation 
Each book unit contains:
Vocabulary (pages 3-9) -12 pairs Vocabulary cards and Worksheet-Describe the Phrases vocabulary worksheet
Antonyms (pages 10-13)-8 pairs Antonyms cards
Descriptive Sentence Frame (pages 14-15)-3 nouns & 9 adjectives
Past Tense (pages 16-24)-8 pairs Regular Past Tense Verb cards and Worksheet-8 pairs Irregular Past Tense Verb cards and WorksheetPerspective Taking (pages 25-26)
Note/Letter Writing (page 27)Compare and Contrast (pages 28-30)
Story Sequencing (pages 31-35)-11 picture sequencing cards-Story Map-Story Comprehension Question Cube-Story Retell Rubric
Articulation Cards (mixed positions) (pages (36-43)-s/z, r, l, k/g cards


47) Don't forget about Chatterbox Speech.  They have a whole store of useful and fun materials! 

Roll and Say CVC's: Using early, initial sounds in /t/ final words


About Roll and Say CVC's:
Use these black and white worksheets to teach simple CVC sound patterns to children with a variety of speech sound production difficulties, such as apraxia of speech and use of some phonological processes (ex. stopping, backing, initial and final consonant deletion, pre-vocalic voicing, etc.). The initial sound targets included, /h, w, p, b, m, n, k, t/ are paired with as many neutral vowels as possible (along with many other vowels) and the /t/ in the final position. A sampling of words in this pack includes words such as “hat”, “wet”, “boat”, “pit”, “might”, “nut”, “toot”, and “kite”. Since all worksheets are in black and white they are easy to print and reproduce for both therapy and homework. Included in this pack are:
*worksheets to teach simple CVC words which includes /h, w, p, b, m, n, k, t/ in the initial position and /t/ in the final position of all words.
*Roll & Say CVC game boards for students to practice words in a fun and reinforcing manner.



This new bundle includes both Full Court Comprehension games and Homework Hoops (open-ended homework reinforcers). **see Homework Hoops description and thumbnails in original post**This pack includes 2 basketball themed games:
-1, 2, 3, TEAM! is a game in which players take turns selecting cards from "the bench" (pile) and adding them to their team (one of 4 different colors). The first player to assemble their team of 5 wins! Special cards are included that will help or hinder your progress. Practice color matching and naming, and number recognition (1-5). Use in conjunction with included comprehension cards or with your own therapy materials.
-Jump Ball! is a game in which players take turns selecting cards and scoring 1, 2, or 3 point shots. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins. Special cards are included that will help or hinder your overall points. Also targets simple number sense and addition/subtraction (numbers 1-3). Use in conjunction with included comprehension cards or with your own therapy materials.
This pack also includes a comprehension selection ("We're Playing Basketball...") which can be used to teach students about basketball, some of the rules, and vocabulary associated with the game.

48) LyndaSLP123 has useful, accurate, and thorough documents for you to start using today! 

Toca Boca Tea Party: app companion for literacy & language


Contents of this packet:
Page 4: Pre-Play suggestions Pages 5-7: Lesson instructing how to target language skills (asking/answering questions, increasing utterance length, using correct pronouns, sequencing, describing, and improving social skills) Page 8: Worksheet to target sequencing (pictures)
Page 9: Worksheet to target sequencing (sentences) Page 10: Sequencing cards
Page 11: Vocabulary cards Page 12: Following directions activity – instructions
Pages 13-18: Following directions activity – direction cards Pages 19-24: Following directions activity – pictures  Page 25: Literacy – Count the syllables in each word
Page 26: Literacy – Identify the letter D Page 27: Literacy – Identify the letter C
Page 28: Literacy – Identify the letter P Page 29: Literacy – Identify the initial letter of each picture Page 30: Literacy – Write a sentence about your favorite part
Page 31: Literacy – Create a tea party invitation (prints 2 per page) Pages 32-33: Worksheets for targeting same and different Pages 34-35: Size sorting cards – target er/est
Pages 36-37: Size sorting mats – target er/est Pages 38-39: Worksheet targeting patterns (color & b/w versions) Pages 40-42: Tiles for patterning
Page 43: Pattern mat Page 44: Pronoun activity Page 45: Articulation sheet for /K/
Pages 46-48: Articulation homework worksheet (fill in target words)














Contents for this packet:
Page 4: Pre-Play suggestionsPages 5-6: Lesson instructing how to target language skills (asking/answering questions, increasing utterance length, categorizing, describing, following directions, and improving social skills) Page 7: Additional activities that coordinate with Toca Boca Store Pages 8-10: Vocabulary cards Page 11: Vocabulary cards of items not in app – use to supplement working on categories Page 12: Literacy – Count the syllables in each word
Page 13: Literacy – Identify the letter R Page 14: Literacy – Identify the letter C Page 15: Literacy – Identify the letter L Page 16: Literacy – Match initial sound with another picture
Page 17: Literacy – Identify the initial letter of each picture Page 18: Literacy – Write a sentence about your favorite part Page 19: Literacy – Blank store shelf worksheet
Pages 20-23: Literacy – Blank store shelf worksheets with pre-assigned store name
Page 24: Articulation: Blank store shelf worksheet to stock with items containing target sound
Page 25: Ideas for using pre-made & blank shopping lists Pages 26-27: Blank shopping lists (color and b/w versions) Pages 28-35: Pre-made shopping lists Page 36: Finish the pattern
Page 37: Math: Count the number of objects Page 38: Articulation sheet for /R, S, L/ (answers on page 42) Pages 39-40:Articulation homework worksheet (fill in target words) Page 41: Articulation target words for Toca Boca store catalogs Page 42: List of items in the catalogs for teacher reference & answers for page 38.

50) The Speech Summit is providing some spectacular documents to add to your therapy toolboxes today! 

Articulation R, L, TH- Baseball Game












306 /R/, /L/, and TH words on baseball themed cards. The cards include initial /r/, /r/ blends, vocalic /r/, initial, /l/, medial /l/, /l/ blends, and initial, medial, and final voiced and voiceless TH. The cards are kid friendly and motivating. These versatile cards can be used in several ways. 
Download includes: 84 pages
6 pages of /r/, /l/, and TH syllable practice
306 /r/, /l/, & TH word cards with a baseball theme 
14 pages of Bonus cards & Strike/Foul ball cards
3 Scoreboard Sheets
4 Baseball Fields/ Game Boards 
PAGES 82-84 can be used when you are playing the game with all three sounds (R, L, and TH) 
A motivating game is included in this download. This simple game will allow the children to be engaged in the activity, while practicing their speech sounds. Children can put the /r/, /l/, and TH words in sentences to increase the skill level.











Download includes:11 pages 
48 Conversation Starter Question Cards- with a monster theme
Monster Themed Game Board **Game pieces and dice are required to play**A monster themed game is included in this download. The game targets articulation carryover with conversation starter questions. Practice using your targeted speech sounds with this fun filled game!

52) Nicole Allison from Speech Peeps has a ton of wonderful and well-written documents!

Ultimate Data Collection Binder for Speech and Language



The perfect tool for DATA COLLECTION, all aligned to the Common Core State Standards! This comprehensive binder has everything you need to easily collect data over several trials and sessions, whether for students on IEPs or with RtI. Developed out of my own need for easy and efficient data collection, this product quickly gathers baselines, progress, strengths and weaknesses over multiple sessions in the areas of Phonological Awareness, Grammar, Vocabulary, Language and Articulation. I am soooo excited about the newest collection to my Common Core family because I just know it will keep you organized and save you valuable time. 



Perfect for diverse articulation groups! Contains over 20 plays for groups of 2-4 students targeting the most difficult sounds to master. 
Readers’ Theater is an evidence-based strategy for improving reading fluency. In Readers' Theater, students rehearse reading a script repeatedly to prepare for a later performance for peers or other audiences. Students are assigned parts or roles for performing the reading of the play's text. Research supports the use of Readers’ Theater to increase fluency, intonation and confidence. (Martinez, Roser, and Strecker, 1999 and Griffin and Rasinski, 2004). 
This packet contains over 20 plays for diverse articulation groups! It is perfect for those students who need a little extra boost in practicing sounds at the reading and conversation level. Contains both a student copy and a therapist copy for easy data tracking. Tried and tested on my own students! I've found that this method:
1. helps my students remember their correct sounds
2. provides practice for using appropriate tone of voice and intonation 
3. improves their confidence, especially if they can then perform for a small audience. 

53) And I decided to add a bit more Easter! Here's the info on one of the latest Twin Sisters Speech & Language Therapy LLC themed documents that targets a variety of speech, language and literacy areas! 












Note: We have added a basket full of EGGstra worksheets, puzzles, and reinforcers to this unit for Easter 2014! Please download the new version if you purchased this document in 2013. We hope you enjoy the new additions like the 35 new black and white sheets for helping to save on your printer ink! 
We hope you are ready for this 153 page EGGSTRAVAGANZA! It is an Easter themed packet featuring a very wide variety of speech, language, concepts, and literacy Eggercises! 

54) Here is a super wonderful document for working on life skills by Consonantly Speaking.  Please don't forget to check it out! 

Appropriate Conversation Topics, Appropriate Conversation Partners














Often when I work with students who have a deficit with social skills, I find that it is important to teach them about appropriate conversation topics and the people whom it is appropriate to talk about certain subjects with. In addition, it is important to discuss conversation topics that are inappropriate to talk about with certain groups of people, especially strangers even if they are a "safe stranger". This 43 page packet aims to help teach students about different groups of people we talk to on a regular basis, appropriate conversation topics, and inappropriate conversation topics with certain groups of people.
Included in the packet:
- A visual chart with four different conversational groups
- Conversation topic strips/quotation strips to place onto the visual in regards to the appropriate group to discuss the topic/use the quote with
- A social skills story to teach students more about conversation partners and appropriate conversation topics
- A visual of "People I Talk To" for students to write people they are comfortable speaking with in four different conversational groups

55) Please head to Figuratively Speeching SLP to pickup these two terrific documents and more!! 














This is the second bunde of Articulation Placemats. Sounds included are: l, r, and l, r, and s blends. Please go to the following link for Bundle 1: 
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Articulation-Placemats-Homework-Sheets-and-Drill-Activities-997332
Included in this product bundle: 
•Page 3 Parent note Each page includes the following: a word list for each weekday, two tic-tac-toe boards, a section to unscramble words, a section to draw a picture, and a spinner. 
•Pages 4-6 homework pages for initial, medial, and final r
•Pages 7-20 homework pages for initial and medial, br, cr/kr, dr, fr, gr and pr
•Pages 21-24 homework pages for initial, medial, and final “l” 
•Pages 25-36 homework pages for initial and medial, bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, and sl
•Pages 37-46 homework pages for initial and medial sc/sk, sm, sn, sp, st, sw, and mixed final s blends.
•Page 47 Copyright information and credits 












1. A poster describing word retrieval strategies.
2. A poster describing visualization strategies.
3. A Superhero open-ended game to use with any of the included cards, or any of your materials.
4. Two puzzles (have students earn a piece for every two or three correct responses). Glue onto cardboard or poster board then cut apart.
5. Card sets for:
Associations (36 cards)
Visualizing/describing (36 cards)
Phonemic/semantic cues (24 cards)
Synonyms (18 cards)
Antonyms (18 cards)
6. Blank cards for you to customize.

57) Check out Speech With Sharon's awesome store! 

Articulation Binder: Baseline and Therapy Tool













Are you tired of shuffling around through decks and decks of speech cards? Needing a way to collect and track baseline data? Want to simplify articulation therapy? 

This product includes baseline and therapy words for 11 different speech sounds!
- 10 baseline words for initial, medial, and final positions of all sounds- 340 words! (Five baseline words for initial Z and initial voiced TH. Final voiced TH not included.)
-20 therapy targets for initial, medial, and final positions of all sounds- 670 words! (Five words for initial Z and initial voiced TH. Final voiced TH not included.)
-One baseline data tracking sheet for each sound. Includes separate tracking for initial, medial, and final positions. Each position includes tracking for baseline, and then first through fourth quarters to track progress throughout the year. Each tracking sheet can be used for word, phrase, or sentence level. 
- All words include color pictures.












Included:
Pages 3-9: Auditory Discrimination Cards
-16 Same/Different- Each card contains 4 word pairs. One word pair is the same, the other three words pairs are different. Say the word pairs and ask the child after each pair if the words are the same or different.
-16 Syllable Awareness- Each card contains 4 words. Say the whole word, then ask the child to say the word without the indicated syllable. 
-24 Sounds in Words (Initial, Final, and Medial)- Each card contains 4 words. Ask the child if they hear the specified sound in each word. Two words include the sound, two words do not. Pages 10-16: Auditory Memory Cards-18 Numbers- Each card contains 3 number sequences, 3 numbers, 4 numbers, and 5 numbers. Have the child repeat the number sequence after you. You may say the sequences either forward or backwards.-18 Words- Each card contains 3 one-syllable word sequences, 3 words, 4 words, and 5 words. Have the child repeat the word sequence after you. You may say the sequences either forward or backwards.-27 Sentences- Each card contains one sentence with either 7, 9, or 11 syllables total. Have the child repeat the sentence after you.
Pages 17-21: Auditory Integration Cards
-24 Following Directions- Includes both 2 and 3 step directions.
-24 Listening for Details- Read the sentence to the child and have them answer the questions about what they heard.-12 Inferences- Read the sentences to the child. Ask them to infer who/what is happening. Pages 22-24: Blank card pages -One blank page of cards for Discrimination, Memory, and Integration.


59) SLP FOR ME has this and useful document for working on inferencing available.  Please take a look! 

Lights, Camera, Inference! No Print & Print Movie Scene Themed Language Lessons












Included in this lesson are three activities as follows:
No Print – 48 Diverse Scenes to Develop Inferencing Skills! This lesson is designed for NO PRINT and can be viewed on the Smart Board, computer or Ipad when downloaded and opened. Two to three questions are provided for each scene to answer requiring students to inference and problem solve. 
Movie Scene Cards – Thee you can print! – 48 similar scenes to the no print activity with questions that require students to inference. This was designed for small group instruction and so they could be used adequately as card movie scenes. I did make these with color backgrounds and NO color backgrounds. The color backgrounds are for the ‘movie experience’ and the NO color are for if you need to conserve ink or for students that you may want to send practice activities home to. 
Print and Go – Movie Scene Inferencing Black and White Mini-book ‘You Are the Director’ – 28 scene mini-book that can be used for instruction, carry-over or review. No color, easy printing.




These lessons were created to help improve the short-term memory, listening comprehension, auditory processing, vocabulary, response to thinking and reasoning types of questioning, receptive language with regard to understanding specific linguistic concepts and completing directives containing them and comprehending negation, while having fun completing the activities – ALL AROUND AN APRIL THEME!!!





61) Please stop by and see the these two great documents from Jessica at The Speech Space!


St. Patrick's Day - "Lucky Green Idioms" - Common Core Aligned

This is a great way to work on figurative language while keeping it fun.  There are plenty of opportunities for learning through flash cards, stories, a worksheet, and a game- which is great for those kids that need lots of repetition to learn effectively. 


-12 flash cards listing each idiom
-12 definition cards that describe each idiom
-2 stories that use the idioms in context
-a fill in the blank worksheet w/ an answer key
-a worksheet to practice creating an original sentence using 5 of the new idioms
-a blank game board with 6 cells to fill with clovers to win the game
-a total of 48 game cards (40 of them with idiom content) broken down as follows:
+12 idiom game cards that require the student fill in the blank (using 3 multiple choice options)
+12 idiom game cards that require the student to define the idiom based on its use in 1-2 provided sentences
+12 game cards that require the student to use the idiom in a sentence
+6 clover game cards (make a copy for each student playing)
+6 “fun” game cards (most of them use an idiom) to be mixed in with the deck of idiom cards


62) And last, but certainly not least to this springtime document list is Speech Space's document titled

Fluency Survival Pack - Stuttering Materials for Preschool through High School















The fluency survival pack is loaded with great resources that can be used for kids in preschool through high school .  It has many of worksheets to practice slow speech, stretchy speech, identifying the area of tension, light articulatory contact, pullouts, and cancellations.  It also contains information for parents, cute cards that review fluency enhancing and modification techniques, data tracking sheets, a fun game for young stutterers, and lots more!



Whew!  You made it to the end of the list!  Doesn't the available amount of new documents just blow your mind?  The variety and the quality of each document is stupendous!  I am going to have a hard time not ordering all of them!

Decisions, decisions...



Happy Spring Shopping Everyone!!



Manda

Twin Sisters Speech &
Language Therapy LLC



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