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Imitation and Language Development

December 25, 2021 by Megan Berg.
Imitation is key to successful language development. This handout is designed to help parents and caregivers understand this important connection and also provides quick tips on how to teach imitation to children.
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Ideas for Incorporating Speech and Language in the Outdoors

December 25, 2021 by Megan Berg.
Summer means more time outdoors! Children of any age, background, culture, and location can enjoy and benefit from the outdoors in some way. There are several ways to improve speech, language, social, and cognitive skills using nature. This handout gives parents, therapists, and caregivers ideas on how to improve child development in the outdoor setting.
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How To Get Children To Answer Questions At Home

December 25, 2021 by Megan Berg.
Many children with language delays/disorders have difficulty answering “wh” questions, especially about their day at school. This handout lays out some ideas that may help. Designed for parents and caregivers.
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Commonly Used Toys in Early Language Intervention

December 25, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This handout describes many of the toys included in an SLP’s tooklit and how parents and caregivers can use these toys at home to carry-over practice for speech therapy goals.
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Figurative Language Pack

December 24, 2021 by Megan Berg.
The activities in this pack can be used with middle and high school aged children who need support in improving social/pragmatic language skills, and higher level language skills. Page one features some classic idioms with engaging graphics. Page 2 provides an opportunity to discuss facial expressions/vocabulary as tied to emojies, while the final 2 pages challenge kids to look at real photos of people and describe the emotions and infer possible situations that are occurring in the photos.
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Fall Themed Language Pack (Vocabulary, Following Directions, and Sorting)

December 24, 2021 by Megan Berg.
An abundance of opportunities for enhancing language skills comes with the changing of the season. In this language activities pack, children of all ages improve their ability to follow directions, expand their vocabulary repertoire, sort and categorize, learn grammar/syntax rules, identify concepts, and more!
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