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Treating Low vs High Tone in Feeding Therapy

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PediatricSLPFeeding 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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Tongue Exercises for Toddlers

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PediatricSLPFeeding 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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Therapy Material

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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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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PediatricSLPLanguage 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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Therapy Material

The /s/ Spider

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PediatricSLPArticulation and Phonology
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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PediatricSLPArticulation and Phonology
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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PediatricSLPArticulation and Phonology
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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Take Home Articulation Practice Notebook

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PediatricSLPArticulation and Phonology
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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PediatricSLPAACLanguage 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 and Phonology
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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Summer Snack Ideas and Fun Recipes for Kids

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
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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Therapy Material

Summer Scavenger Hunt (F and V Phonemes)

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PediatricSLPArticulation and Phonology
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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