Many infants and neonates have a long road to oral feeding. This resource provides examples and ideas for activities to use and teach parents/caregivers to assess and improve pre-feeding skills and readiness.
Saying words with two or more syllables is challenging for children with articulation or phonological disorders, or apraxia of speech. This worksheet provides opportunity for practicing these words in therapy and at home.
This handout provides ideas for successful early spoon-feeding and characteristics of good spoon-feeding. Giant gobs of food with leftovers shoved into the oral cavity? NO THANKS.
This chart provides a place for families to document the following for discussion with the SLP during a therapy session: Date Duration of meal Set-up (high chair, table, car, etc) Foods offered Child’s reaction to food Parent response
Grasping pronouns like he/she and him/her is an important and sometimes challenging part of pediatric language development. This therapy activity provides visual pronoun cards along with ideas of how to use the cards in structured therapy sessions. Also includes a page of pronoun practice using pictures.
This handout uses accessible language for parents and caregivers to understand what echolalia is and how it helps children learn and process language in a natural way.