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Picky Eating Tips for Caregivers

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
This handout handout lays out three concrete strategies and breaks down each strategy into simple steps to incorporate into everyday life.
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Picky Eating: Plate Rotation

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
This handout is written in accessible language for families and caregivers and provides instructions on how to use plate rotation at home as a strategy to increase diversity of food intake for their children.
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Handout

Picky Eating Tips and Resources

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
Handout with a list of practical strategies to improve PO intake by picky eaters. Includes a “First -> Then” graphic and a food rating scale.
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Therapy Material

Sorting Fruits and Veggies

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
With this task, children sort fruits and vegetables into different piles, using words to describe each food item. The task targets language development as well as addresses some of the more challenging food items for children struggling with different tastes and textures.
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Therapy Material

Mealtime Routine Visual Schedule

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
This handout provides a visual for 7 steps of eating, from grabbing plats and utensils to taking bites to cleaning dishes. Cut, laminate, and place on velcro strips.
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Therapy Material

Phonological Awareness Sound Cards: Vowels and Consonants

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PediatricSLPLanguage DevelopmentLiteracy
Teaching pre-literate patients and those with phonological awareness how to blend, segment, and differentiate between phonemes is challenging. This set of flashcards provides picture-based speech sound cards that are easily used to blend, segment, manipulate, and play with phonemes to build understanding and awareness.
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Therapy Material

Phonological Awareness Activity (Spring Time Vocabulary)

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Get ready for some springtime speech fun by working on phonological awareness! This activity not only targets vocabulary skills, but also helps children understand the relationship between sounds and letters.
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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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PediatricSLPPediatric 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, long-term care, and clinic settings.
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Therapy Material

Visual Schedule

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
A visual schedule for therapy sessions. 
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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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PediatricSLPArticulation and PhonologyLanguage 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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PediatricSLPArticulation and Phonology
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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PediatricSLPFeeding 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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PediatricSLPArticulation and Phonology
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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PediatricSLPLanguage 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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