Creative Speech Therapy

Celebrate the 2022 Winter Games Core Vocabulary Style! Target the words: go, stop, more, do and don't in this simple, repetitive and engaging book. Also included are flannel board pictures to cut out and act out the story.

This short and repetitive story, with engaging and fun images is the perfect book to use to target a variety of core vocabulary words including: do, you, want, be and mine! Students will giggle along with the silly frog's valentine antics and get lots of practice using their core board or AAC device.

Using repetitive carrier phrases is an excellent way to increase utterance length, complexity and intelligibility. This 9 page resource offers 7 full color pages with interactive carrier phrase tasks for young communicators to engage in with their SLP or caregivers; and once learned makes an excellent in the car independent practice task for kids. Carrier phrases targeted include: "I see a..", "He is..." "She is..." ("They are..." may be interchanged for either pronoun), "It is...", "I like...",

Sung to the familiar tune of "Down By the Bay", this silly song is comprised of only core vocabulary words and provides an easy way to use descriptive teaching strategies. By using only core vocabulary words to describe the functions of different winter clothing items, students learn the versatility of core. The song is presented in an interactive and repetitive book that is perfect for circle times. Included is a "Table Task" worksheet to continue modeling robust core vocabulary after the book

Provide partner language stimulation for your students using a natural and engaging activity: sharing a story! This script uses only core vocabulary from an 84 word array/board to tell a popular and well-loved story: Bear Wants More by Karma Wilson & Jane Chapman. It can be used to model core vocabulary for a student, and used by the student to develop automaticity in using their device or vocabulary board. Scripts for many other "Bear books" by Wilson and Chapman are available in the product:

Easily track your student's core vocabulary usage with this handy 1 page data collection sheet. Using a date due stamp (or simply writing in the date) when communication is observed helps identify words that students may require increased targeted modeling stimulation. Pairs with the Power Words16 video modeling, music and story curriculum.