Comprehending and using pronouns correctly often presents as a challenge for young children with speech and language delays and/or disorders. This material helps children target goals for understanding and using pronouns.
Vocabulary, following directions, and sorting are just a few language skills that can be developed when learning about gardening, where food comes from, and the changes that spring brings! This fun, engaging, and refreshing activity helps children learn concepts with a gardening theme.
Signs of selective mutism may be evident during early childhood. The disorder can continue into adulthood with increasing severity if left untreated. These activities may be used with children in the home, school, or clinical setting to help reduce anxiety, and to increase opportunities for global communication for improved socialization.
This handout is targeted towards parents and caregivers seeking more information, particularly immediately after their child has been evaluated. The handout describes how this diagnosis is a primary diagnosis and lays out specific challenges their child might face.
This handout describes how to teach basic concepts, including general vocabulary, quantitative concepts, opposites, and spatial concepts. It offers 4 everyday strategies that can be implemented at home to improve carry-over of speech and language therapy.
Fun and functional snack mat for feeding therapy. Use your favorite snack (e.g. animal crackers). This mat can also be used to address receptive, expressive language, matching, basic concepts, and following directions.
This engaging activity helps children learn to make associations, sort, and categorize, which are all important skills for cognitive and language development. Instruct and assist the child to cut and paste the images that match the picture scene.
This therapy intervention task is designed for pediatric clinicians working with children to use AAC devices to effectively communicate wants, needs, and ideas. The printable resource includes a PDF with instructions on how to model language using AAC and includes a quick practice board with the words “want,” “go,” “stop,” “help,” “turn,” and “more.”
This handout defines the difference between deictic gestures and representational gestures with guidelines on typical development guidelines for the pediatric population.