Language Launchers

Parent Handouts organized in "units" to explain a variety of strategies to develop speech and language skills in Early Intervention. Designed to provide information and practical strategies to foster speech and language development at home. 12 topics of information on 48 pages (93 pages total including the topic covers and many are double sided) loaded with information. If used as one topic per month there could be a year's worth of parent education content. Content was written by 2 ASHA cer

Auditory Closure is an important skill for children with hearing loss to learn. Generic enough for an Itinerant teacher of the deaf (TOD) to carry a few pages in the bag of tricks to work on when time permits. Understanding the grammar to fill in sentence parts and guess at unknown words is also a skill essential to help in the learning to read process. This was created to work on identifying a word from closed set conditions with students with hearing impairment/deafness. Goals: Closed

A total of 70 ninth grade vocabulary words are used in 5 different types of activities. Each product in the bundle has 10 different worksheets (each with answer keys). Potentially one list of words used each week would provide 10 weeks of daily vocabulary lessons (7 words per week). Possible Lesson Planning Schedule: WEEK 1: List #1 Monday: Matching Tuesday: Fill-in Wednesday: Sort Thursday: Crossword Friday: Create a Sentence WEEK 2: List#2 Monday: Matching Tuesday: Fill-in Wednesday: Sort Thur

Parent Handouts for speech language pathologists to encourage carryover of the concepts discussed in a session. This bundle contains the three topics in the Chatting with Children series Conversation, Literacy, and Singing. Each topic provides information and activities about the topic related to speech-language development. Each PRODUCT topic is broken up into 4 pages: LEARN PAGE: A one-page topic overview which describes the concept. PRETEND PAGE: describes various activities to do with t

Requesting and Providing Clarification are necessary skills for a child to become a competent conversational partner. Children with hearing impairment or speech-language delays often need explicit instruction and practice with these skills. 7 separate skills are targeted with these task cards. This bundle contains 2 products: 1. Providing Clarification 1012. Requesting Clarification 101They can be printed or used on-screen as a no print activity.

Large collection (75) of parent handouts related to developing listening and spoken language in children with hearing loss using Auditory-Verbal Therapy habilitative option. Must have for an LSLS certified therapist working with newly diagnosed children. Great resource for LSLS certified therapists and teachers of the deaf to use with parents Therapists working on LSLS certification requirements Parents to learn the concepts behind AVT/LSL therapy. TOPICS IN AUDITORY VERBAL THERAPY is a coll

Written directions to draw objects can be used as reading comprehension or spoken language comprehension. Beware, it's more challenging (and fun) that you might first think! Don't worry, an answer key is included. Best for grade 2 to ADULT.Another set of cards include black line drawings for verbally formulating directions of your own. Suitable to use for individual speech-language sessions as well as with groups. Other related products:Clarification Skills BundleWrite a Word Directions

Flexible to meet many objectives and levels of play.A matrix board can be used for formulating sentences, story telling, auditory comprehension and following directions among others. This can also be printed in duplicate and used as a barrier game or battleship type guessing game using the same type of grammatical structures. This product is also part of a 10 Matrix BundleThis product contains: instructions matrix board (colored and black and white) Candy corn “tokens” (colored and

Requesting clarification is a priority for children with hearing loss or language delay. When a child begins to become responsible for conversational repairs learning (and teaching) gets easier. This product provides practice on 4 different skills:1. Using grammatical context to guess meanings2. Repeating an unfamiliar vocabulary word to ask the meaning3. Make guesses with the isolated words you did hear4. Guess similar sounding words when it didn't make senseThese task cards can be used as

Formulating simple S-V-O grammatically correct sentences or more complex story telling are easily achieved with this game. There are opportunities for both receptive and expressive practice. It’s an optimal closed set structured listening task for children who have recently received a cochlear implant or who are learning to listen. Picture cards are included that show a person and an object. The speaker needs to add a verb to the two pictured words to create a sentence. Use of differen

Providing clarification is a necessary skill for children to develop conversational competency. Children with hearing impairment and speech-language delays often require explicit instruction to acquire these skills. These task cards practice 4 different skills needed to learn to solve communication breakdowns. 1. Monitoring your audience (20 cards)2. Describing or defining words you can't recall (20 cards)3. Re-phrasing thoughts (20 cards)4. Coding old v. new information (20 cards)80 task

New English learners and children with speech-language delays often need explicit instruction in the use of figurative Language. It's not just idioms, but the everyday play on words and peculiar phrasings.So LET’S CUT TO THE CHASE and develop THE GIFT OF GAB with this JAM-PACKED resource designed for professionals and parents to teach common expressions of English. This resource includes 224 task cards to cut apart and use in a wide variety of games or simply print out as a checklist of figu

A matrix board has flexibility to target many speech and language goals including (but not limited to) sentence formulation, story telling, following directions, auditory comprehension and grammatical structure work.This matrix uses similar sounding names, a specific clock time, and an activity to cue 3 item memory sentences. For example, "Ben has a tennis lesson at 4:25". The student has to find Ben, Tennis Lesson and put the 4:25 time card on the intersecting square. This Matrix does requ

This 1 hour recorded presentation was created to in-service members of a school team who work with a student with hearing loss who is learning through listening and spoken language. An overview of the impact of hearing loss on learning and the challenges a verbal child with hearing loss faces in the mainstream educational setting. There are 10 related handouts included in this purchase. (9 of them are taken from “Topics In Auditory Verbal Therapy” so if you have already purchased that col

This is a series of PARENT TRAINING HANDOUTS related to hearing loss that compliment topics commonly discussed in individual Auditory-Verbal Therapy sessions. Buy this once and you have it to use with parents for years to come.Extensive content and tasks designed to teach parents who opt for a Listening and Spoken Language path with their children with hearing loss. Designed for therapists, early intervention specialists and teachers of the deaf/hearing impaired who work with young children w

A matrix board is a closed set listening task that lets the therapist adjust play for a very large number of listening and speech-language goals. Auditory memory, grammatical formulation, auditory comprehension, storytelling, verb tense, subject-verbs agreement are all easily addressed for differentiated levels with these versatile games. Great for grammatical formulation for English Language Learners and students with language delays. These can also be printed in duplicate and used as a b

This bundle includes a 73 page e-book (Topics in Auditory Verbal Therapy) of parent handouts suitable for professional level training and 3 recorded powerpoints.Each powerpoint is 30-60 minutes in length. Great content for a general education school-based team (teacher, speech-language pathologist, specials teachers) to get an overview of practical information and strategies to work elementary aged students with hearing loss and use listening and spoken language to communicate. Once purchas

70 seventh grade vocabulary words are used in 5 different types of activities. Each product in the bundle has 10 different worksheets (each with answer keys). Potentially one list of words used each week would provide 10 weeks of daily vocabulary lessons (7 words per week). Possible Lesson Planning Schedule: WEEK 1: List #1Monday: Matching Tuesday: Fill-in Wednesday: Sort Thursday: Crossword Friday: Create a Sentence WEEK 2: List#2Monday: Matching Tuesday: Fill-in Wednesday: Sort Thursday: Cro

This is a 4 page unit of parent handouts (1 of the 12 units contained in the Babbling with Babies e-book) for use in early intervention on the topic of Joint Focus of Attention. Information and practical strategies for parents to facilitate their baby’s early speech and language skills in natural contexts within the home is the intended purpose. Each page serves a different purpose. The READ page is a synopsis which describes the topic for the unit. The PLAY page describes various activit

This is especially valuable for the Early Intervention SLP & PARENTS of the newly identified baby with hearing lossThe First Year of Listening is a 30-minute recorded PowerPoint Professional Development presentation. The foundations of auditory skill development that occur before words is especially important for therapists to understand. Learning to listen takes time for the brain to make sense of auditory stimulation and strong language models. Available HERE in a Professional Developmen