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Clinical Reference

The Importance of Lab Values for Clinical Swallow Assessments

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PediatricSLPFeeding and SwallowingLanguage Development
Lab values are essential to our clinical swallow evaluation process as speech-language pathologists. This resource discusses the importance of knowing our patients’ lab values and provides a chart with possible effects of abnormal pediatric lab values on matters that pertain to feeding and swallowing.
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Handout

Speaking Valves in Pediatric Speech Therapy

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PediatricSLPArticulation and PhonologyFeeding and SwallowingPediatric Voice
This resource offers information about what speaking valves are and how to place them. A few tips are offered on how to introduce them to children when starting to address voicing and swallowing goals.
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Therapy Activity

Summer Sorting/Categories Activity

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
This resource is a visually engaging, easy-to-use activity targeting sorting and understanding categories with a summer theme.
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Therapy Activity

Convergent and Divergent Thinking Task Examples and Activities

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PediatricSLPLanguage DevelopmentPediatric Brain Injury
This resource provides a list of convergent and divergent therapy activities and built-out examples of each.
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Tips to Help Your Child with Joint Attention

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Impairments with joint attention can have tremendous negative impacts on cognitive and social-communication skills. This handout provides information and techniques for clinicians and caregivers to use to help children with joint attention skills through various activities.
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Handout

Delayed or Age Expected: When to Get Your Child Evaluated for Speech Services

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PediatricSLPArticulation and PhonologyLanguage Development
Parent involvement and early detection can help to increase the efficiency of a child’s language development. This resource provides information and a checklist for caregivers, therapists, physicians, and teachers who want help to determine if a referral for evaluation for speech intervention is needed.
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Clinical Reference

Therapy Techniques and Activities for Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) Without a Certification

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PediatricSLPApraxia of SpeechArticulation and Phonology
Apraxia is a challenging diagnosis, and our field is currently ripe with certifications and specializations for its treatment. This resource provides an overview of techniques and ways to support CAS without spending time or money on a certification.
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Handout

How to Use Book Reading to Expand Your Infant & Toddler’s Language

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Book reading can allow for numerous learning opportunities. This handout details some ways in which families and clinicians can help to build language in infants and toddlers.
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Therapy Activity

Articulation Egg Hunt: Minimal Pairs

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PediatricSLPArticulation and Phonology
This resource is an interactive game involving /r/ and /l/ minimal pairs in the initial and medial positions of words.
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Handout

Auditory Processing and Language Development

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
This resource provides tips for social and classroom settings to help improve language development in children with auditory processing disorder (APD).
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Comprehensive Assessment Tools for Pediatric TBI

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PediatricSLPExecutive FunctionPediatric Brain Injury
This clinical reference is utilized to determine how to create, implement, and track progress using non-standardized assessment tools for children with a traumatic brain injury.
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Therapy Activity

Homework Planner/Organizational Chart for Pediatric Patients to Support Executive Functioning

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PediatricSLPLanguage DevelopmentPediatric Brain Injury
This resource helps supports students in organizing homework, tracking assignments, and planning for tests using structured tables and routines. Use it to build executive functioning skills, improve task follow through, and transition students toward independent planning systems. Video on how to use this resource:
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Therapy Activity

WH- Questions Flashcards

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
These double sided cards can be used as a fun and interactive resource when targeting wh- questions.
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Clinical Reference

SLP & OT Feeding Collaboration

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PediatricFeeding and Swallowing
This resource offers a checklist that can be used for SLP & OT clinical collaboration during skilled feeding sessions.
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Clinical Reference

Dysfluency Strategies for the Classroom

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PediatricSLP
This resource offers tips for educators, therapists, and parents who are seeking strategies to help their students who demonstrate dysfluent speech patterns in the classroom setting.
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