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Eye Tracking Activity Pack for Children with Dyslexia

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PediatricSLPLiteracy
Eye tracking difficulties can contribute to making academic success exceedingly difficult for children with dyslexia. This activity pack is for families, therapists, and educators who are seeking fun attention, concentration, and eye tracking activities to help target their children’s reading fluency goals. An eye tracking tool and activity are included.
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Expressive Language Integration During Screen-Based Activities

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Have any clients that are addicted to screen time and parents who are terrified to take away the screen for fear of a behavior? Use this handout to provide parents and caregivers with some ideas on how to support language development within the context of screen-based activities.
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Expressive Language Development for Preschoolers

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Children with expressive language delays struggle with developing a wide range of grammatical structures and also exhibit limited mean length utterances (MLU) for their age. Below is a quick resource to guide SLPs in choosing developmentally age appropriate grammatical goals for preschoolers (12 months – 46 months).
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Expressive and Receptive Vocabulary Milestones

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Children with speech/language delays do not meet vocabulary milestones at the same time as typical, same-aged peers. Because of this, children with language delays need increased verbal input and exposure to new words. This resource serves as a quick reference for clinicians and provides information on the number of words children generally acquire expressively and receptively by age (12 month to 36 months).
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Expanding Expressive Language Through Home-Based Activities

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
This handout is designed for therapists who are looking for fun activities to address expressive language skills in the home setting with toddlers and young children. This handout is also a resource for parents who want to continue building their children’s expressive language goals outside of the therapy setting.
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Evidence-Based Considerations for Pediatric Modified Barium Swallow Studies (MBSS)

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PediatricSLPArticulation and Phonology
Based on the course Modified Barium Swallow Studies in Infant and Pediatric Patients by Jennifer Raminick, CCC-SLP, BCS-S, this handout covers radiation exposure, accuracy of clinical bedside evaluations, elements to improve consistency and accuracy of swallow studies, candidacy for MBSS, differences of infant swallow vs. adult swallow, and stages of swallow during the exam.
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Encourage Language While Playing with Simple Toys

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Carry-over of speech therapy at home with family is vital for lasting success. This handout provides concrete suggestions related to 5 toys that parents/caregivers can use to encourage language while playing with their child at home.
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Emotional Vocabulary Expansion Activity

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Children with social pragmatic communication disorders often have a limited range of emotional vocabulary words (e.g., excited, depressed, sad, angry, happy, etc.), which affects their ability to express feelings in a healthy way. It is our job as speech-language pathologists to provide these children opportunities to learn and understand a wider variety of emotional vocabulary.
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Effects of Mouth Breathing

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PediatricSLPArticulation and PhonologyFeeding and Swallowing
Mouth-breathing is a maladaptive, compensatory behavior. Human facial anatomy was designed for breathing to occur through the nose. The nasal cavity filters the air we breathe, and allows airflow into the body for proper craniofacial development. The harmful effects of mouth-breathing in children are becoming more well-understood. This handout provides a brief overview of information for caregivers, parents, therapists, and other professionals regarding how mouth-breathing can affect multiple facets of development.
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Early Intervention: How to Target More Than Nouns in Play

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Nouns emerge first in early developing language, but to help kids push into multi-word phrases and meaningful dialogue with communication partners, it is important to help them build up other types of words in their vocabularies. This handout provides a quick way to extend word types across play and everyday activities.
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Dyslexia

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PediatricSLPLiteracy
This handout is intended for parents, teachers, and therapists to use as a reference when working with children with dyslexia. The information below provides a brief, general overview of dyslexia.
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Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing for Apraxia

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PediatricSLPApraxia of Speech
This handout describes the use of DTTC by therapists address apraxia of speech in the pediatric population. The handout describes what DTTC is, how therapists incorporate it into therapy, and the principles of motor planning that make it successful.
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Developmental Grammar Milestones

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
This handout is designed for speech-language pathologists and other language specialists and outlines 8 major grammar milestones for children from 19-50 months.
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Development of the Swallow & Oral Motor Skills: From Infancy to Toddlerhood

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
This resource provides caregivers and clinicians information about swallow development, including anatomy and physiology development from infancy to toddlerhood. The handout also outlines specifically how the pediatric swallow anatomy is not just a smaller version of adult anatomy and how these anatomical differences can impact dysphagia for the pediatric population.
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Daily Routine Visual Sequencing Strips

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
This visual resource is designed for clinicians working with the pediatric population to address sequencing of functional daily routines.
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Creative Pairing of Preferred Foods with Non-Preferred Foods

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
Clinicians typically use a variety of techniques and strategies to help children overcome fears of new or non-preferred foods. Each child is different and will need a unique approach based on their responsiveness to what is trialed in therapy. One for children with sensory-behavioral issues is to pair preferred foods with non-preferred items. This handout is especially helpful in understanding specific ways to use this approach across settings.
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Core Word Picture Cards for Everyday Therapy

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PediatricSLPAACLanguage Development
These visual cards can be used in therapy and at home as a functional activity. One way to use these cards is during play routines (e.g., practice “in” and “out” while playing with a toy; prompt the child by asking, “Is the ball in the box or out of the box?” and point to the correct cord word image).
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Core Vocabulary: Valentine’s Day Love Smoothie

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PediatricSLPAACLanguage Development
Use this recipe with your AAC learners. Core vocabulary is a set of words that make up about 80% of what most people say during the day.
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Core Vocabulary for the Word “GO”

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PediatricSLPAACLanguage Development
This therapy activity is designed for therapists targeting 3 word phrases using the word “go.” Includes squares featuring the words “Cars,” “go,” “fast,” “slow,” and “home.”
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Conversational Turn Taking Cards for Group Sessions

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Initiating conversations between school-aged children can be difficult during group therapy. Conversation becomes a challenge when children cannot think of things to say. This resource can be used by therapists, educators, and families who are working with school-aged children on conversational turn-taking tasks.
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