Pacing can help children communicate more effectively and build self-awareness. This activity is appropriate for most children, toddlers through school age, who may have speech sound errors and/or a language impairment.
Sometimes it takes creativity to keep kids focused and interested in practicing speech at home! This activity provides a fun way to work on sounds /f/ and /v/ in words. Simply cut out the images and hide them around the house. When the child finds the picture, model the word so they repeat it back.
This activity can be used to practice speech sounds with children who have childhood apraxia of speech, or other articulation errors or phonological processes.
Summer family activities can be a great opportunity to practice speech sounds! This therapy activity includes 2 pages of vocabulary cards along with a list of how to use the cards either in structured therapy or as home practice with family/caregivers.
This game targets bilabial consonants. Includes a page of gumballs with bilabial target words (including blank ones so you can create your own) and a printout of a gumball machine. Cut out the gumballs and have kids pop them into the gumball machine as they practice the sounds.
Children with articulation errors, phonological processes, speech/language delays, or apraxia of speech generally all benefit from using speech pacing techniques, which are used to improve speaking rate, and ultimately intelligibility. This handout provides some tips and strategies when working with a child who needs help with pacing his/her speech.
Looking for a way to get repetition practice of s-blends? This fun, winter-themed board game can be played with any set of dice. Roll a number, move the correct amount of spaces, and practice the s-blend on the landing spot. This prints out as two pages and can be taped together to provide a large visual that is fun and interactive for speech therapy practice.
This handout is targeted for parents and caregivers and visualizes 8 fun and practical ways that they can engage in speech therapy practice with their kids outside of the therapeutic environment.