language expansion Archives – Therapy Insights

Tips & Strategies for Longer Phrases

February 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

This resource provides ideas for expanding your child’s verbalizations from single words to phrases and sentences.

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Using Automatic Speech Tasks to Support Expansion of Expressive Language

March 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.

This resource explains how to build language easily from automatic speech tasks to make quick progress on increasing mean length of utterance or increasing spontaneous language.

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Conversation Extension Activity—Engaging Game to Promote Extending Back and Forth Exchange

January 31, 2022 by Megan Berg.

This resource is designed to help expand conversations for easier generalization for clients who have mastered back and forth conversation, but need support advancing those skills.

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Strategies to Develop Receptive and Expressive Language Skills with Children Who Use AAC

January 9, 2022 by Megan Berg.

Many families find it difficult to support the communicative needs of their little ones who depend on AAC for participation in activities of daily living. This resource is for therapists, parents, caregivers, and educators who are seeking ideas and activities to build receptive and expressive language skills with their children who use aided AAC.

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Springtime Language Activity Pack

January 9, 2022 by Megan Berg.

Use these activities to target a variety of goals including sentence expansion, grammar, vocabulary, and following directions.

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Make-A-Sentence: Household Scavenger Hunt

December 26, 2021 by Megan Berg.

This fun activity will help your child build vocabulary and increase sentence length and complexity.

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Strategies and Tips for Meaningful Conversations With Your Child

December 26, 2021 by Megan Berg.

This handout is includes three specific strategies for parents/caregivers with a breakdown of how to incorporate each strategy into everyday life.

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Expressive Language Development for Preschoolers

December 24, 2021 by Megan Berg.

Children with expressive language delays struggle with developing a wide range of grammatical structures and also exhibit limited mean length utterances (MLU) for their age. Below is a quick resource to guide SLPs in choosing developmentally age appropriate grammatical goals for preschoolers (12 months – 46 months).

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Expanding Expressive Language Through Home-Based Activities

December 24, 2021 by Megan Berg.

This handout is designed for therapists who are looking for fun activities to address expressive language skills in the home setting with toddlers and young children. This handout is also a resource for parents who want to continue building their children’s expressive language goals outside of the therapy setting.

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Emotional Vocabulary Expansion Activity

December 24, 2021 by Megan Berg.

Children with social pragmatic communication disorders often have a limited range of emotional vocabulary words (e.g., excited, depressed, sad, angry, happy, etc.), which affects their ability to express feelings in a healthy way. It is our job as speech-language pathologists to provide these children opportunities to learn and understand a wider variety of emotional vocabulary.

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