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Tips for Parents of Children Who Stutter

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PediatricSLPArticulation and PhonologyFluency
This handout handout features five strategies that highlight extra time, reducing distractions, and setting the child up for success by talking with friends, family, and teachers about these strategies.
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The Role of Speech-Language Pathologists in Pre-Literacy Skills

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PediatricSLPLiteracy
This handout describes the role of speech-language pathologists in helping young children develop pre-literacy skills. The handout defines 5 elements of phonological awareness that SLPs target in speech therapy, including onset-rime, segmentation, alliteration, rhyming, and phonemic awareness.
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Teaching Kids to Self-Feed

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
This handout is designed to give parents and caregivers ideas to teach the important self-care skill of self-feeding. 
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Strategies and Tips for Meaningful Conversations With Your Child

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
This handout is includes three specific strategies for parents/caregivers with a breakdown of how to incorporate each strategy into everyday life.
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Spoon Feeding

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
This handout for feeding specialists to share with parents and caregivers at/around 6 months of age, when babies are ready to begin spoon feeding. The handout outlines 4 quick tips to help ensure success.
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Cup Options for Transitioning from Bottle/Breast to Cup

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
Featuring 8 specific options for parents/caregivers to consider, this handout is designed for therapists working with families to address transition from bottle/breast to cup.
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Practicing Velar Sounds at Home

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PediatricSLPArticulation and Phonology
This handout describes what velar sounds are as well as tips and 3 specific strategies for practicing velar sounds at home to improve carry-over.
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Pediatric Taste Development

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
This handout describes how the sense of taste develops when we are young with a specific focus on kids on the autism spectrum as well as tips to enhance taste development for picky eaters.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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