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Carrie Clark, a speech-language pathologist from Columbia, Missouri, offers resources, information, and activities for speech therapists and parents of children with speech and language development and delays. While Carrie's materials will provide great information for speech therapists, they will also empower families to use fun and easy activities to improve their child's speech and language skills at home. Activities and information cover a range of ages, ability levels, and disabilities. Topics covered include: articulation, apraxia, phonology, language, late talkers, alternative/augmentative communication (AAC), autism, stuttering, reading, social skills, down syndrome, following directions, answering questions, grammar, etc. Educators and other professionals will also love this easy-to-follow information and the step-by-step guides.
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2Why Use AAC for Toddlers or Children? AAC devices are augmentative/alternative communication systems that allow a person to communicate with those around them without speaking. There are many different types of AAC but the most common are high-tech AAC Devices that allow a person to push a button to speak a message. These
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In this episode of the Speech and Language Kids Podcast, speech-language pathologist Carrie Clark discusses the benefits of groups speech therapy for children and why speech therapists group children together. Carrie also discusses the types of cases that benefit from individual therapy. Click Here to Download Your Free Group Therapy Resource Pack
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In this episode of The Speech and Language Kids Podcast, speech-language pathologist Carrie Clark discusses what speech therapists can do to help with literacy (reading and writing) skills in children and adolescents. What is Literacy? Pre-reading skills like phonological awareness and basic language skills Reading skills Writing skills Why do Children with
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Hypernasality Speech Therapy: Treatment Ideas for Hypernasal Speech Hypernasality occurs when a child speaks with too much nasal resonance. Airflow tends to be directed up into the nasal cavity during speech instead of primarily through the oral cavity. Nasal emission is when that air comes all the way out through the nose. This
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Stuttering Therapy Techniques: The purpose of speech therapy for children who stutter is to help them learn how to communicate effectively and easily. Sometimes that means eliminating the stutter all together, such as with preschoolers experiencing developmental disfluencies. But often, especially for our older clients, the stuttering may never fully go away. Our
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Childhood Apraxia of Speech: How to Do Speech Therapy for CAS Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) is a rare, neurologically-based speech disorder where the child knows what he wants to say but the message gets mixed up in the motor-planning and execution phase so the sounds come out all wrong. What are
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Therapy for Non-Speaking Children: How to Boost Functional Communication Skills Do you know a child with autism who isn't able to communicate basic wants and needs? Does the child lack the social skills to participate in social interactions? Do you need a guide for how to improve functional communication in a young child with
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How to Help a Child Repair Communication Breakdown "Communication Breakdown" is what we call it when something goes wrong in a conversation and there is a misunderstanding. Our communication can break down for a number of reasons but most of the time, we are able to clarify the confusion and keep going. Children
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Today, speech-language pathologist Carrie Clark explains how to help a child learn to summarize an event or story through the use of literacy activities. Listen below! Show Notes: Step One: Teach Main Idea Click Here to See How to Teach Main Idea Click Here to Download my Free Main Idea/Details Worksheet
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Learn how to reduce burn-out and stress whether you're a speech therapist or a parent of a child with speech and language delays. (Episode 55 of the Speech and Language Kids Podcast) Manage Your Time Parents: Break practice sessions up into small chunks. 5 minutes in the morning and 5 at night is
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Articulation and Phonological Therapy Approaches: What is the Best Speech Sound Therapy? It can be very difficult to figure out what type of speech sound therapy to do with a child. Today, I'm going to walk you through the four main types of therapy and when to use them. Plus, I'll touch
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Social Skills Activities for Middle Schoolers: Speech Therapy Goals and Ideas Many of our children with language delays also have trouble with social skills. This may be due to certain conditions that impair social skills, like autism, or it may just be because these children have trouble learning language and social interactions rely
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What is Autism? According to Autism Speaks, the term "autism" or "autism spectrum disorder (ASD), refers to a broad range of conditions characterized by challenges with social skills, repetitive behaviors, speech and nonverbal communication. In order to be diagnosed with autism, a child must have each of the following two conditions present
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Speech Therapy Materials and Tools: What Do I Need? Speech-language pathologists and assistants use a lot of tools and resources to teach speech and language skills to children. What speech therapy materials and tools do we need to do our jobs? And how can we find free speech therapy materials? We all
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You’re driving in the car and your kid is growing antsy. Quickest solution: Hand him your smart phone! You’re waiting for your food a restaurant and the little ones are throwing the sugar packets at each other. Easiest solution: Turn on some cartoons on the tablet! It’s a rainy Saturday morning and you can’t
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This fun therapy activity will let you work on grammar skills like pronouns and verb tenses while you’re playing with sock puppets. It’s cheap, it’s easy, and it’s SUPER fun! Check it out: Materials: Two Sock Puppets: Use tube socks and hot glue eyes and hair onto them. Make sure one looks like a
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What is Perspective Taking? A child's inability to understand a situation from another person's point of view is called "perspective taking". Perspective taking allows us to feel what it would be like to be in the other person's shoes during a situation. It requires you to put yourself in the other person’s
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Establishing and Improving Joint Attention in Children Join the Hub to Access (Free Trial) Johnny doesn’t pay attention to other people. He doesn’t notice the other children that play around him and when an adult tries to get his attention, he doesn’t seem to hear.
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RTI Speech Therapy: How to Use 5-Minute Sessions for MTSS Tier 2 Response to Intervention (RTI) is an approach to supporting children who are struggling to learn something from the general education curriculum. It is when we provide additional supports to those children outside of the special education process. This is often implemented
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What is an SLPA? **This first part is about the roles of an SLPA. For resources, materials, and support: scroll down! Here’s what the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA) defines as a speech-language pathology assistant (SLPA): “Speech-language pathology assistants are support personnel who, following academic coursework, fieldwork, and on-the-job training, perform tasks prescribed,
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this is the greatest podcast in existence, thank you.