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Handout

Open Cup Drinking

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
This handout is written in accessible language for parents, family, staff, and caregivers and provides concrete strategies and timelines for when and how children can best transition to open cup drinking.
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Incorporating Speech and Language Skills into Daily Activities

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
This handout is designed for parents/caregivers and provides concrete instructions on how to address speech and language skills in the context of bathroom time, morning and nightly routines, and mealtimes.
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Handout

Imitation and Language Development

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Imitation is key to successful language development. This handout is designed to help parents and caregivers understand this important connection and also provides quick tips on how to teach imitation to children.
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Handout

Ideas for Incorporating Speech and Language in the Outdoors

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Summer means more time outdoors! Children of any age, background, culture, and location can enjoy and benefit from the outdoors in some way. There are several ways to improve speech, language, social, and cognitive skills using nature. This handout gives parents, therapists, and caregivers ideas on how to improve child development in the outdoor setting.
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Handout

How to Help Children Produce the /ch/ and /sh/ Sounds

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PediatricSLPArticulation and Phonology
This visual handout is designed to assist speech-language pathologists when training parents and caregivers on how to help children learn /ch/ and /sh/ sounds. Featuring concrete strategies and suggestions, this handout will help parents and caregivers feel confident when carrying over skills learned in therapy to their home environment.
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Handout

How To Get Children To Answer Questions At Home

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Many children with language delays/disorders have difficulty answering “wh” questions, especially about their day at school. This handout lays out some ideas that may help. Designed for parents and caregivers.
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Handout

Good Vocal Hygiene Habits for Children

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
This handout outlines three elements that contribute to overall vocal hygiene, including environment, hydration, and vocal rest. The handout is appropriate for staff, parents, and caregivers.
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Handout

Functional Sign Language for Young Children

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
This handout contains visuals for how to complete 9 functional signs along with a basic explanation of how to introduce signs to children.
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Handout

Commonly Used Toys in Early Language Intervention

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
This handout describes many of the toys included in an SLP’s tooklit and how parents and caregivers can use these toys at home to carry-over practice for speech therapy goals.
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Handout

Bilabial Speech Sounds

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PediatricSLPArticulation and Phonology
This handout contains 5 tips for how to elicit a bilabial sound.
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Handout

Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
This handout includes signs/symptoms included in an ARFID diagnosis as well as a list of populations most at risk. The handout references speech-language pathologists as part of an interdisciplinary team that can address this disorder.
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Handout

Articulation and Phonology

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PediatricSLPArticulation and Phonology
This handout describes four common articulation errors as well as three of the most common phonological processes, including fronting, gliding, and consonant deletion.
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Guidelines and Goals for Pediatric G-Tubes

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
G-tubes can be scary, intimidating, and misunderstood by parents and caregivers. This resource offers basic guidelines and goals for SLPs to follow when beginning the g-tube journey with a client.
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Handout

Guide to Laryngomalacia and Feeding Safety and Outcomes

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
Laryngomalacia is a common diagnosis for infants that is often misunderstood by parents in both the short and long-term. This resource provides a quick guide to the condition, ways to assist, and evolution over time.
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Therapy Material

Grapheme-Phoneme Correspondence Cards

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AdultPediatricSLPAphasiaLiteracy
472 grapheme-phoneme correspondence cards for speech-language pathologists and teachers targeting dyslexia and alexia through phonological awareness.
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Clinical Reference

Goal Ideas for Feeding Therapy

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
This goal bank can be modified by adding more detail or customizing based on the child’s current skill level and needs.
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Handout

Game Ideas for Practicing Speech Sounds at Home

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PediatricSLPArticulation and Phonology
Games at home are a wonderful way to carryover speech therapy strategies! This handout is designed to give parents and caregivers the strategies and insight needed to practice speech sounds at home while playing fun games together.
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Therapy Material

Functional Oral Motor Exercises using Foods/Liquids

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
Feeding therapists may use certain tools for oral motor exercises prior to or in conjunction with eating. When these tools aren’t accessible or available, food and drink can be used in functional activities to meet oral motor development goals. This resource contains quick and functional exercises using various food items to improve the strength, coordination, and mobility needed for safe eating.
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Fun Ways to Practice Articulation at Home

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PediatricSLPArticulation and Phonology
Motivation is key in getting children to practice their speech sounds at home.  Here are some fun ideas for incorporating practice into different games/activities at home. 
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Handout

Food Textures/Consistencies with Examples (Pediatric Feeding Therapy)

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
This handy reference is helpful in understanding differences in food textures and consistencies when working with children on feeding therapy goals. The terms used for various textures can be used at mealtimes/during therapy to help children describe what they see, feel, and taste!
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