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Summer Snack Ideas and Fun Recipes for Kids

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PediatricSLPFeeding and SwallowingPicky Eating
Summer is a fun time for kids to be involved in food preparation! This handout is designed for parents and caregivers and outlines some simple snacks with kid-friendly recipe layouts to encourage healthy food habits.
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Summer Scavenger Hunt (F and V Phonemes)

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PediatricSLPArticulationF/V Sounds
Sometimes it takes creativity to keep kids focused and interested in practicing speech at home! This activity provides a fun way to work on sounds /f/ and /v/ in words. Simply cut out the images and hide them around the house. When the child finds the picture, model the word so they repeat it back. 
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Summer Language Carryover Ideas for Parents/Caregivers

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
This handout is divided into strategies targeting younger children and older children. Encourage carryover outside of the structured therapy environment with this fun and colorful handout!
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Strategies to Decrease Echolalia and Support Spontaneous Language

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Do you have a patient whose main form of expressive language is characterized by echolalia? Is that patient able to produce or “echo” back extremely complex sentences or phrases but is unable to produce their own spontaneous responses within therapy activities and in conversation? This document outlines some basic strategies to use during therapy to decrease echolalic behaviors and increase a child’s spontaneous language capabilities.
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Springtime Vocabulary Activity Pack

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
These activities can be used to expand a child’s expressive and receptive vocabulary, while working on other language skills such as following directions and answering questions.
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Springtime Short Stories

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PediatricSLPExecutive FunctionLiteracy
Children with attention deficits, auditory processing issues, and speech/language disorders may need help improving reading comprehension and recalling details in text. Use the following springtime themed stories with questions to work on goals related to literacy development.
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Springtime Language Activity Pack

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Use these activities to target a variety of goals including sentence expansion, grammar, vocabulary, and following directions.
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Spring Themed Vocabulary Pack

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
These activities can be used with children of all ages to target language skills such as following directions, expanding vocabulary, and grammatical structures.
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Spring Themed Apraxia Activity

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PediatricSLPArticulationCASChildhood Apraxia of Speech
This activity can be used to practice speech sounds with children who have childhood apraxia of speech, or other articulation errors or phonological processes.
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Following Directions Activity (Spring Theme)

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Use this spring scene with your students to practice following 1 step directions that contain spatial concepts.
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Spoon Options for Parents and Therapists

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PediatricSLPBirth to 3Feeding and Swallowing
This handout describes different spoon options for spoon feeding babies, toddlers, and children. Featuring helpful tips for children who have sensory and/or motor planning needs.
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Speech Practice For the Pool or Beach

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PediatricSLPArticulation
Summer family activities can be a great opportunity to practice speech sounds! This therapy activity includes 2 pages of vocabulary cards along with a list of how to use the cards either in structured therapy or as home practice with family/caregivers.
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Bilabial Gumballs

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PediatricSLPArticulationBilabial Sounds
This game targets bilabial consonants. Includes a page of gumballs with bilabial target words (including blank ones so you can create your own) and a printout of a gumball machine. Cut out the gumballs and have kids pop them into the gumball machine as they practice the sounds.
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Speaking Rate and Pacing

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PediatricSLPArticulationCAS
Children with articulation errors, phonological processes, speech/language delays, or apraxia of speech generally all benefit from using speech pacing techniques, which are used to improve speaking rate, and ultimately intelligibility. This handout provides some tips and strategies when working with a child who needs help with pacing his/her speech.
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Social Skills Milestones: Birth to Elementary School

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PediatricSLPLanguage DevelopmentPragmatics
This handout provides basic information regarding social skills milestones that are expected from birth through 10 years of age. Provides families and caregivers with a starting point when understanding pragmatic language delays.
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SLP Collaboration in G-tube Weaning and Oral Feeding Initiation

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PediatricSLPBirth to 3Feeding and Swallowing
This handout may serve as a guideline for clinicians and families who are seeking an enhanced understanding of the role of the SLP, or the steps involved in pediatric g-tube weaning.
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Simple Strategies for Easier Mealtimes at Home

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PediatricSLPFeeding and SwallowingPicky Eating
As families are home more than ever during this time, mealtimes may feel increasingly more stressful. This handout serves as a reference for simple, go-to strategies that may make mealtimes run more smoothly!
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Signs of Feeding Disorders, Dysfunction, or Delay in Children Up to Age 3

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PediatricSLPBirth to 3Feeding and Swallowing
This handout breaks down what parents and caregivers should be looking for when determining if their child has a feeding disorder, dysfunction, or delay. Includes infancy-4-5 months, 6-12 months, and 1-3 years of age.
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Sentence Strips for Language Expansion

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Sentence strips provide a visual way to build sentences, providing a concrete learning strategy for young children working on expanding their utterance length.
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Sensory Play Ideas for Picky Eaters

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PediatricSLPFeeding and SwallowingPicky Eating
This handout celebrates the idea of sensory play with a large, engaging visual of what it looks like to use sensory play to become familiar with the different textures of foods. Includes 5 fun ideas to try with kids in a therapy setting or at home.
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