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RTI Speech Therapy: How to Use 5-Minute Sessions for MTSS Tier 2

RTI Speech Therapy: How to Use 5-Minute Sessions for MTSS Tier 2 Response to Intervention (RTI) is an approach to supporting children who are struggling to learn something from the general education curriculum. It is when we provide additional supports to those children outside of the special education

Making Inferences For Speech Therapy

How to Help Children Learn to Make Inferences An inference is when you use clues present (in text or in real life) along with your background knowledge to make a guess about something that's not explicitly known. For example, if you see an "out of order" sign, you

Using Video Modeling For Kids With Autism

What is Video Modeling? Video modeling is a fun instructional technique where the child watches a video of himself or herself doing a desired behavior or skill. For example, let’s say Johnny always throws a fit on the way from the bus to his classroom at the beginning of

Frontal Lisp/Interdental Lisp | Speech Therapy Ideas & Word Lists

What Is a Frontal Lisp? Let’s start at the beginning. A frontal lisp, also known as an interdental lisp, occurs when a child says the /s/ and /z/ sounds with the tongue pushed too far forward. This causes /s/ and /z/ to sound more like “th”. Frontal

Final Consonant Deletion | Activities, Words, and Goals

What is Final Consonant Deletion? Final consonant deletion is a phonological process (pattern of speech errors) where a child drops off the ending consonants of all words. Final Consonant Deletion Examples: “dog” becomes “dah” “cat” becomes “ca” And “Please Mom, can I eat some eggs and toast?”

The Magic Formula to Teach a Child Any New Skill (By Fading Supports)

The inspiration for this post came to me while I was laying in my 10-month-old’s crib with him. Yeah, I’m that mom. But let me explain! My sweet baby boy was an excellent sleeper until he hit the 6-month mark. Then, suddenly we went from one night waking to

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

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

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

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

/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

Teaching How Questions

How to Teach a Child to Answer "How" Questions: Children need to be able to answer a variety of questions to participate in conversations as well as classroom activities. Here are some guides for teaching your child to answer how questions. How Questions Step One: Quantity How Questions The first

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

How to Teach Articles: Speech Therapy for “a”, “the”, “some”

How to Teach Articles: Speech Therapy for "a", "the", "some" Children with language delays often leave out articles like “a”, “the”, and “some”. This can make their speech choppy and hard to follow. Your child should be using articles by 4 years of age. Some children start using

Teaching Adjectives to Kids: Activities and Worksheets

Teaching Adjectives to Children: Activities and Worksheets for Helping Kids Learn Adjectives Descriptors are an important part of our vocabulary. They are the words that describe other words. These can be adjectives (words that describe nouns) or adverbs (words that describe verbs). We use these throughout our everyday

When Questions Speech Therapy | Games & Question Lists

Download the Free When Questions Speech Therapy Game Join the Hub to Access (Free Trial) When Questions Speech Therapy Children with language delays often have difficulty answering questions. When teaching a child to answer questions, it is helpful to

Child/Baby not Responding To Name: How Can We Help?

Child/Baby not Responding to Name: Many parents worry when their baby or toddler is not responding to his name. A child may be ignoring you when you call his name for a variety of reasons. Sometimes, it is just because the child isn't tuned