Caitlin's Speech Corner

The Receptive-Expressive Emergent Language Test-3rd Edition is a commonly used assessment by early intervention speech language pathologists. This interpretation helper is a guide to determine weaknesses within the 5 areas of language. It covers both receptive and expressive languages. This guide was loosely based off of a social interactionist theory viewpoint. Providers with major beliefs in other language acquisition theories may disagree in the interpretation of the test questions. Use at y

This helpful parent handout provides a visual for families to understand how language develops in toddlers and children. It follows the analogy of a tree growing in the same fashion of language developing.

Simple drills parents can do with their toddlers with CAS. Change out the consonants in the stars to practice any sounds your kiddo needs. Instructions: 1. Start with the consonant in the star and add a vowel sound (CV). 2. Work your way around vowels, always starting with the sound in the star. 3. Do it backwards! Start with the vowels and add the sound in the star (VC). 4. When CV and VC patterns are mastered, move to CVC. Start in the star, add a vowel, and go back to the star.

SLPs--use this progress monitoring chart to track your cycles approach for phonology with your students!

This simple first/then board assists in behavior expectations for our little ones. Use your own pictures or symbols, or you can simply laminate and quickly draw using dry erase or wet erase markers!

This simple checklist helps early interventionists keep track of due process paper work, specifically for Part C in MN.