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Speech/Language Resources

Speech/Language resources to assist your child at home. These sites include activities that
support articulation, language, fluency, and pragmatics and also includes AAC practice, teacher suggestions, and additional websites.
 
ARTICULATION
• Home/Speech/Home - Specific Sounds in Words, Sentences, and Paragraphs:
 
• Mommy Speech Therapy:
 
• Tracy Boyd’s Ed Online Articulation Games (Matching & Concentration):
 
• Minimal Pairs by Caroline Bowen:
 
• Speech Teammate:
 
• Carrie Clark, SLP Solution - Speech and Language Kids:
Carrie Clark- SLP Solutions: This YouTube channel includes 5-6 minute videos that can provide direct instruction, models, and verbal/visual cues for a student’s target speech sound. It also includes videos that can provide parents with strategies for expanding language skills in young children.
 
LANGUAGE
• Turtle Diary:
 
• Language Lessons to Songs:
 
• Speaking of Speech - All Areas of Speech Therapy:
https://speakingofspeech.com/home
 
• Teachers Pay Teachers - Free Resources:
 
• Super Duper Publications.:
 
• Speech & Language Kids - 
 
• Starfall:
 
• Games for Speech and Language Development:
 
• Don Johnston Readtopia Free Thematic Unit on Working Together - Language Comprehension through Literacy for Mod-Significant Needs):
 
• Scholastic Learn at Home - Provides 20 Days Worth of Active Learning Journeys Designed to Reinforce and Sustain Educational Opportunities for those Students Who are Unable to Attend School:
 
• Video Learning Squad: 
www.videolearningsquad.com   
 
• Wacky Web Tales: 
 
• Story Time from Space:
 
FLUENCY
• Teachers Pay Teachers, Free Handout:
 
• Stuttering Help:
 
PRAGMATICS
• Everyday Speech:
 
• Video Learning Squad:
 
• Model Me Going Places (Free Social Social Stories):
 
• Ms. Lane’s SLP Materials:
 
WEBSITES FOR AAC PRACTICE
• Core Word Practice:
 
• Go Board Maker:
 
• Core Workshop:
 
• Assistive Ware Core Word Classroom:
 
Additional Free Resources
• IXL: Comprehensive K-12 Curriculum, Individualized Guidance, and Real-Time Analytics:
 
• Kindergarten – 12th Grade Language Arts:
 
• Everyday Speech - Social-Emotional and Autism:
 
•. Read Works - Kindergarten to 12th Grade Reading and Passages and Comprehension Questions:
 
• Khan Academy:
 
• Free Language Stuff:
 
• Quia Speech Therapy - Allows Students to Play Jeopardy Type Games Using Idioms, Multiple Meaning Words, Inferences, Synonyms/Antonyms, etc.:
 
 
Teacher Suggestions for Fostering Language Development
 
1. Say/read nursery rhymes so your child can hear the rhythm and flow of language.
2. Sing simple songs together to encourage vocal use, teach concepts, and expand vocabulary. (i.e. "Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes")
3. Use body language in everyday communication to support multi-modal communication. (i.e. shrug your shoulders, shake your head)
4. Name and describe objects you and your child are looking at together. You can ask your child to help you come up with descriptive words (i.e. What color is it? How does it feel? Soft or hard? [Giving them a choice of words reinforces vocabulary and decreases the language demand.])
5. Model correct pronunciation and grammar. You don’t need to always correct them; just repeat what they say with the corrections. Children are like sponges – they soak up what they hear repeatedly!
6. Expand on your child’s sentences to be more descriptive/clear/grammatical. This validates his/her efforts and provides a model, which supports and encourages language growth.
7. Talk during play. The more language models your child hears, the more he/she will want to talk and will know about language.
8. Ask open-ended questions instead of "yes/no" questions. This encourages your child to produce language rather than answering yes or no. If he/she has difficulty, you can provide two choices. (i.e. "what do you want to eat? spaghetti or pizza?")
9. Focus on the positive! Children’s attitudes often reflect their parents’ attitudes!
10. Listen to your child! Give them your full attention to show that they are an equal communication partner.
11. Look at books/read together. This supports language development in so many ways! You don’t need to read the pages word for word, but talk about the pictures, make connections to your child’s life (i.e. in the book the boy has a red ball; say to your child “Oh look, there is a red ball like yours! What do you do with your ball? What does he do with his?”)
12. If your child is working on a specific sound, you can look for that sound/letter throughout the book and practice saying words with that sound.