This resource contains 24 front/back minimal pairs with pictures designed to provide an engaging focal point to structured therapy tasks as well as context for abstract words used in repeated practice.
Many parents and therapists use body part identification to target vocabulary building with their preschoolers. This fun and simple body part game can be used to maintain the attention span of your preschooler who enjoys arts and crafts.
For children who are both trying to attend school virtually and therapy sessions, visual supports are beneficial for sustaining participation, motivation, and attention.
Valentine’s Day brings lots of fun vocabulary and language for children to learn and use! This multi-activity pack provides therapy materials to use during this fun holiday.
The first activity challenges kids to match Valentine-related vocabulary words to pictures by connecting them with lines. The second activity invites them to write a “letter of love,” and is a great opportunity to work on general writing skills, spelling, syntax, vocabulary, and social skills.
This handout visualizes normal cleft and lip development as well as the following types of cleft lip/palate: Unilaterial cleft lip with alveolar involvement, bilaterial cleft lip with alveolar involvement, unilateral cleft lip associated with cleft palate, bilateral cleft lip and palate, and cleft palate only.
Tone of the oral musculature is usually assessed during a pediatric feeding/dysphagia evaluation. Feeding specialists often see children with hypotonicity (low muscle tone) or hypertonicity (high muscle tone), which can affect the coordination and stability of the lips, cheeks, tongue, and mandible. This resource is designed as a reference for professionals looking for ways to treat both types of tone in feeding therapy sessions.
This handout provides information on pediatric executive function development as well as ways to improve a child’s ability to function in the classroom and other settings.