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How To Get Children To Answer Questions At Home

December 25, 2021 by Megan Berg.
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

December 25, 2021 by Megan Berg.
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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Commonly Used Toys in Early Language Intervention

December 25, 2021 by Megan Berg.
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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Figurative Language Pack

December 24, 2021 by Megan Berg.
The activities in this pack can be used with middle and high school aged children who need support in improving social/pragmatic language skills, and higher level language skills. Page one features some classic idioms with engaging graphics. Page 2 provides an opportunity to discuss facial expressions/vocabulary as tied to emojies, while the final 2 pages challenge kids to look at real photos of people and describe the emotions and infer possible situations that are occurring in the photos.
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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)

December 24, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This handout accompanies the course: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: From Identification to Intervention. The handout covers fetal alcohol syndrome, (FAS), alcohol-related neurodevelopmental disorder (ARND), alcohol-related birth defects (ARBD), and neurodevelopmental disorder associated with prenatal alcohol exposure (ND-PAE) diagnoses. This handout also outlines FASD quick facts, therapy supports for children with FASD, strengths of children with FASD, challenges for children with FASD, and other common behavioral characteristics seen in children with FASD.
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Fall Trail Mix Visual Recipe

December 24, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This visual recipe for young or emerging readers is designed for clinicians, teachers, parents, and caregivers targeting feeding goals. This activity also touches on reading, following directions, and sequencing.
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Fall Themed Language Pack (Vocabulary, Following Directions, and Sorting)

December 24, 2021 by Megan Berg.
An abundance of opportunities for enhancing language skills comes with the changing of the season. In this language activities pack, children of all ages improve their ability to follow directions, expand their vocabulary repertoire, sort and categorize, learn grammar/syntax rules, identify concepts, and more!
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Expressive Language Integration During Screen-Based Activities

December 24, 2021 by Megan Berg.
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

December 24, 2021 by Megan Berg.
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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