This handout provides written education on the basal ganglia including signs of dysfunction, diseases of the basal ganglia, and why a person may benefit from speech therapy with a lesion in this area of the brain.
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.
Dysarthria can make it difficult for others to understand a person’s speech. These specific strategies will help improve speech intelligibility for the person with dysarthria. This can be hung up on the wall to be an external memory aid to use these strategies.
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.
This handout provides basic information regarding social skills milestones that are expected from birth through 10 years of age. Provides families and caregivers with a starting point when understanding pragmatic language delays.
Social media use is an important area to evaluate after a brain injury because of the many different thinking and communication skills required to be safe on the internet and interact positively with others. This handout helps guide the discussion about how the person with a brain injury uses social media throughout their day.
This handout is for therapists using spaced retrieval training to recall important functional information, such as their phone number, home address, safety precautions, or names of family members.