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Valentine’s Day Activity Pack

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Valentine’s Day brings lots of fun vocabulary and language for children to learn and use! This multi-activity pack provides therapy materials to use during this fun holiday.
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Valentine’s Language Activities for Kids

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
The first activity challenges kids to match Valentine-related vocabulary words to pictures by connecting them with lines. The second activity invites them to write a “letter of love,” and is a great opportunity to work on general writing skills, spelling, syntax, vocabulary, and social skills.
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Types of Cleft Lip/Palate

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PediatricSLPArticulationPediatric Voice
This handout visualizes normal cleft and lip development as well as the following types of cleft lip/palate: Unilaterial cleft lip with alveolar involvement, bilaterial cleft lip with alveolar involvement, unilateral cleft lip associated with cleft palate, bilateral cleft lip and palate, and cleft palate only.
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Types of Concepts and Ideas for Home Practice

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
This resource describe how basic concepts are an integral part of children’s language repertoire. Concepts help children understand their surroundings, increase their ability to follow directions, and are essential for academic success. There are a variety of concepts that develop at different ages (starting as early as 2 years of age), including spatial, temporal, quantitative, qualitative, textural, and social-emotional.
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Treating Low vs High Tone in Feeding Therapy

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PediatricSLPBirth to 3Feeding and Swallowing
Tone of the oral musculature is usually assessed during a pediatric feeding/dysphagia evaluation. Feeding specialists often see children with hypotonicity (low muscle tone) or hypertonicity (high muscle tone), which can affect the coordination and stability of the lips, cheeks, tongue, and mandible. This resource is designed as a reference for professionals looking for ways to treat both types of tone in feeding therapy sessions.
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Transition Strategies to Support Children with Autism During Outdoor Social Activities

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PediatricSLPAutismLanguage DevelopmentPragmatics
This is a resource for families and providers of children with autism, who are looking for strategies to support socialization and transitions during restaurant dining, or other activities outside of the home.
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Handout

Tongue Exercises for Toddlers

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PediatricSLPBirth to 3Feeding and Swallowing
This handout breaks down exercises related to food and drinks separately and includes information on adaptive drink bottles to improve progress.
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Tips to Improve Executive Functioning

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
This handout provides information on pediatric executive function development as well as ways to improve a child’s ability to function in the classroom and other settings.
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Identifying Negation

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
This task includes two pages of visual sets, challenging children to select which image does not fit.
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Handout

The Role of SLPs in Feeding and Swallowing in Schools

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
Being able to eat and obtain nutrition and hydration in the school environment is an important part of academic success. This handout is designed for SLPs to provide to staff, parents, and school staff in order to provide insight into the role of the SLP as it relates to feeding and swallowing in schools.
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The Role of an SLP vs BCBA

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Handout to show parents and new clinicians some similarities and differences between SLPs and BCBAs. 
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The Importance of Play

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PediatricSLPBirth-3Language Development
Play is the foundation for a child’s learning, especially speech, language, and social skills. This handout explains why play is so paramount in shaping a child’s language development.
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The /s/ Spider

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PediatricSLPArticulationS Sound
This sssssspecial spider is designed to address the /s/sound in structured therapy. 6 of the spider’s legs feature vowel sounds to provide a visual and tactile way for a child to participate in syllable practice.
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Techniques for Achieving the /R/ Sound

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PediatricSLPArticulationR Sound
The /r/ sound is notoriously considered to be one of the most difficult phonemes in the English language to articulate. This is a resource for therapists, parents, and caregivers who are looking for ideas to help their children achieve /r/ production—specifically in the initial position of single syllable words.
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Teaching Vowels to Toddlers: Long Vowels Race

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PediatricSLPArticulationVowel Sounds
Vowels may be introduced during the toddler years. However, difficulty with differentiating between short and long vowels may persist into childhood. This game is a fun, interactive tool to help with early awareness of vowel varieties through the identification of long vowels. This game may be played with up to 3 children per round.
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Handout

Take Home Articulation Practice Notebook

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PediatricSLPArticulation
This resource is intended to help communicate carry-over goals for the home environment with a place for parents to report home practice.
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Strategies to Develop Receptive and Expressive Language Skills with Children Who Use AAC

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PediatricSLPAACAACLanguage Development
Many families find it difficult to support the communicative needs of their little ones who depend on AAC for participation in activities of daily living. This resource is for therapists, parents, caregivers, and educators who are seeking ideas and activities to build receptive and expressive language skills with their children who use aided AAC.
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Summer Verb Tense Puzzle Targeting Past, Present, and Future for Pre-Literate and Literate Clients

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
To develop increasingly complex language, children need to demonstrate proficiency in a variety of tenses to communicate their wants, needs, comments, and conversation. This activity uses summer themes and words to target the use of regular and irregular verbs in past, present, and future tenses. It is designed for non-literate and literate learners.
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Summer Themed Pacing Board Activity

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PediatricSLPArticulation
Pacing can help children communicate more effectively and build self-awareness. This activity is appropriate for most children, toddlers through school age, who may have speech sound errors and/or a language impairment.
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