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Phonological Awareness Hierarchy, Skills, and Goals
What is Phonological Awareness? Phonological awareness refers to a set of skills that children typically develop in the preschool years as pre-reading skills. These include skills where the child begins to understand how words are made up of individual sounds and those sounds can be
Speech Therapy Generalization: Boosting Self-Awareness to Increase Carry-Over
Speech Therapy Generalization: Boosting Self-Awareness to Increase Carry-Over In episode 25 of the Speech and Language Kids Podcast, speech-language pathologist Carrie Clark discusses how to increase self-awareness and carry-over skills for children who do not pay attention to if they are saying things correctly or not.
Teaching Present Progressive “-ing” Words for Kids
How to Teach Present Progress "-ing" Words to Children: The present progressive “-ing” grammatical marker is the one we tack on the end of a verb to say that the action is currently happening. For example, we might say “he is running” or “she is flying”. When a
Phonological Processes: Definition, Examples, and Therapy
What Are Phonological Processes? Phonological processes are patterns of sound replacements that children use to simplify their speech. When a child is young, he hears the speech sounds of the language used around him, but he can't yet produce all of them. Children don't sound like adults when they
Initial Consonant Deletion: Minimal Pairs and Therapy Activities
What is Initial Consonant Deletion? Initial consonant deletion is the phonological process when a child consistently leaves off consonants from the beginning of words. For example, "stick" becomes "ick" and "tree" becomes "ee". While young children often leave consonants off of the ends of
How to Make Speech Therapy More Fun (At Home or in Therapy)
“If you’re bored, then the child is probably bored.” I once received that advice from a professor in college regarding our speech therapy sessions. And she was right. If I was feeling bored by a session, most likely the child was also bored and probably not doing his or
/f/ Sound Speech Therapy: Activities for teaching “f”
/f/ Sound Speech Therapy: How to Help Children Learn to Say the /f/ Sound Some children struggle to say the /f/ sound in conversational speech. We don't typically start working on the /f/ sound in therapy until a child is 4-5 years old as many children still struggle
Halloween Speech Therapy Activities
Halloween Activities for Speech and Language Halloween is almost here and children everywhere are getting excited about costumes and candy! Now is a great time to use the excitement of Halloween to get kids excited about working on speech and language skills. Here are some Halloween activities that will
PECS for Autism | Speech Therapy Phases and Strategies
What are PECS? PECS stands for Picture Exchange Communication System. PECS is a systematic way to teach a child how to communicate with someone else by handing them a picture of what they want. This program was originally designed for children with autism but can be used
Social Skills for Autistic Adolescents and Teens
Social Skills for Autistic Adolescents and Teens Today we're discussing how to teach conversation and social skills to older children who are struggling. This may include children with autism or other social impairments. Social Skill Therapy for Autistic Adolescent and Teens: Join the
Speech Therapy for Autism: Activities, PDFs, and Info
Speech Therapy for Autism: Activities, PDFs, and Info Autism, also called Autism Spectrum Disorder, is a diagnosis that describes a group of children with a common cluster of symptoms, though the degree of severity for each of those symptoms varies widely from child to child. These symptoms include
AAC Devices for Autism | Are Communication Devices Helpful?
AAC Devices for Autism AAC Devices for autism were designed with one thing in mind: giving a voice to children who can't speak. Speaking is how we as adults communicate with those around us. It allows us to interact with other people and influence the world around
Stuttering Therapy for Children
How to conduct stuttering therapy with children On, this episode of the speech and language kids podcast, Carrie Clark reviews the current research on stuttering therapy for children. You will also learn how to conduct this therapy yourself. Note: This information is not intended to replace the guidance of a licensed
Lateral Lisp Exercises for Speech Therapy
What is a Lateral Lisp? A lateral lisp, also called a lateral /s/ or palatal lisp, can be a very tricky thing to treat. With a lateral lisp, air is forced over the sides of the tongue for sounds like /s/, /z/, and “sh” instead
Screen Time and Speech/Language Delays
Hang in there, we're going to talk about screen time... Oh man do I hate this subject! Not so much as a speech-language pathologist but as a mom. Actually...as a mom of children during a pandemic. This is NOT an easy subject to write about but I know it's
/f/ Articulation Homework: Complete Home Program
Click here to download the free /f/ Articulation Home Program /f/ Articulation Homework Description: This complete start-to-finish home program will go through every step to teaching a child to produce the /f/ sound. This program contains worksheets, articulation cards, visual aids, etc. specifically designed for the /f/ sound
/p/ Articulation Homework: Complete Home Program
Click here to download the /p/ Articulation Home Program for free! /p/ Articulation Homework: Description The complete start-to-finish home program will go through every step to teaching a child to produce the /p/ sound. This program contains worksheets, articulation cards, visual aids, etc. specifically designed for the /p/
/b/ Articulation Homework: Complete Home Program
Click here to download the /b/ Articulation Home Program for free! /b/ Articulation Homework: Complete Home Program This /b/ articulation homework is a complete start-to-finish home program will go through every step to teaching a child to produce the /b/ sound. This program contains worksheets, articulation cards, visual
Why Questions for Kids | Activities for Speech Therapy or Class
Why Questions for Kids: Speech Therapy for Teaching Children to Answer "Why" Questions Why questions for kids can be very useful. Being able to answer a “why” question can help a child answer questions in class that show knowledge and understanding of information, help him make sense
“What” Questions for Kids | Speech Therapy Activities and Ideas
"What" Questions for Kids: Children with language delays often have difficulty answering questions. When teaching a child to answer questions, it is helpful to teach one question form at a time. This page is all about teaching "what"questions in speech therapy. We will break this skill down
