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Pediatric Selective Mutism: Strategies to Achieve Voicing and to Increase Mean Length of Utterance

January 2, 2022 by Megan Berg.
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.
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What is a Developmental Language Delay, or Late Talker?

January 2, 2022 by Megan Berg.
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.
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Helping Children Learn Basic Concepts

January 2, 2022 by Megan Berg.
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.
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Animal Crackers Snack Mat

January 2, 2022 by Megan Berg.
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.
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Object Association Activity (Summer Theme)

January 1, 2022 by Megan Berg.
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.
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Modeling Language with AAC

December 30, 2021 by Megan Berg.
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.”
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Types of Gestures in Pediatric Development

December 29, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This handout defines the difference between deictic gestures and representational gestures with guidelines on typical development guidelines for the pediatric population.
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Wh- questions

December 29, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This resource includes information about the natural sequencing for mastering different wh- questions as well as a matching card game that includes 3 sets of matching cards per wh- question cue.
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Language Task: Fall Scene

December 29, 2021 by Megan Berg.
Includes 1 blank page with a ground and sky and 1 page with fall-themed objects that can be cut and used in the task. Can also be given to families to address goals in a home environment to improve carry-over of receptive language tasks like following instructions and understanding prepositions.
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