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Handout

Pediatric Vocal Overuse, Misuse and Abuse: Implementing Successful Prevention Strategies in the Home

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PediatricSLPPediatric Voice
Many children require support to avoid patterns of vocal abuse and misuse during communicative based activities of daily living. This handout is for parents, caregivers, therapists, and teachers who want to help children to identify behaviors and habits that contribute to vocal difficulties and modify behaviors for progression towards improved vocal hygiene.
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Therapy Material

Volume Control

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PediatricSLPLanguage DevelopmentPediatric Voice
This visual is a concrete way for children to categorize vocal volume and learn what appropriate loudness feels and looks like.
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Clinical Reference

Pediatric Vitals: Pocket Reference

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PediatricSLPNICU/PICUPediatric Brain Injury
This is a compact reference tool that can be laminated and attached to a work ID card, placed in a wallet, or tucked into the pocket of scrubs or lab coats. This tool is useful for clinicians who need to quickly reference of normal pediatric vital ranges during their daily professional practice in the hospital, […]
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Therapy Material

Visual Schedule

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
A visual schedule for therapy sessions. 
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Therapy Material

Thanksgiving Patterns

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
This therapy activity targets pattern recognition and Thanksgiving vocabulary. Cut out the final squares, mix them up, and challenge children to place the final square in each row by following the patterns on the page.
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Strategies

Pediatric Selective Mutism: Strategies to Achieve Voicing and to Increase Mean Length of Utterance

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Signs of selective mutism may be evident during early childhood. The disorder can continue into adulthood with increasing severity if left untreated. These activities may be used with children in the home, school, or clinical setting to help reduce anxiety, and to increase opportunities for global communication for improved socialization.
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Handout

What to Expect During a Pediatric MBSS

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
This handout handout describes what a modified barium swallow study is and lays out what parents can expect during the study.
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Handout

What is a Developmental Language Delay, or Late Talker?

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
This handout is targeted towards parents and caregivers seeking more information, particularly immediately after their child has been evaluated. The handout describes how this diagnosis is a primary diagnosis and lays out specific challenges their child might face.
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Handout

The Importance of Carryover and Ways to Practice Speech at Home

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PediatricSLPArticulationLanguage Development
This handout describes the importance of carryover and lists specific strategies for older and younger children to assist with this goal.
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Handout

Practicing /s/ at Home

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PediatricSLPArticulationS Sound
This handout provides 4 strategies that families can use at home to assist with carry-over of structured therapy tasks in a clinical setting.
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Handout

Nutritive and Non-Nutritive Suckling Patterns

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PediatricSLPBirth to 3Feeding and Swallowing
This resource is for staff, parents, and caregivers, and describes how to tell the difference between nutritive and non-nutritive suckling patterns.
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Handout

How We Produce /R/ in English

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PediatricSLPArticulationR Sound
This handout handout provides a visual for the retroflexed and bunched /r/ production.
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Handout

Helping Children Learn Basic Concepts

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PediatricSLPBirth-3Language Development
This handout describes how to teach basic concepts, including general vocabulary, quantitative concepts, opposites, and spatial concepts. It offers 4 everyday strategies that can be implemented at home to improve carry-over of speech and language therapy.
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Handout

Helpful Tips for Behavior Management at Meals

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
This handout describes 6 concrete strategies that can be implemented to encourage positive eating behaviors.
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Eval Tool

Pediatric Feeding Questionnaire

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
Use this resource to gather some basic information when screening/assessing for feeding issues.
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Therapy Material

Animal Crackers Snack Mat

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PediatricSLPFeeding and SwallowingLanguage Development
Fun and functional snack mat for feeding therapy. Use your favorite snack (e.g. animal crackers). This mat can also be used to address receptive, expressive language, matching, basic concepts, and following directions.
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Handout

Feeding Milestones: 0-24 Months

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
This handout breaks down what to expect between the age of 0-24 months in the area of feeding/eating development.
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Handout

Incorporating Sensory Activities in Feeding Therapy

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
This handout addresses feeding sensory processing issues related to feeding. It provides 5 strategies to use to decrease averse reactions to foods.
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Handout

Pediatric Executive Functioning Milestones

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
This handout breaks down the expected executive functional milestones between the ages of 0 and 18. Includes a brief description of executive functioning.
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