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This is a visual support for students with complex communication needs to determine what part of their body hurts. It can be used by special education teachers, speech pathologists, physical therapists, occupational therapists and school nurses. Print and laminate copies and distribute them to anyone who could use them. As always, thank you for supporting my mission to make communication accessible to all!

This is a free Predictable Chart Writing activity targeting feelings. Work with your students on identifying their feelings and expressing the feeling using visual symbols. Cut out the symbols and laminate them, then use velcro so students can practice putting their own spin on sentence construction. Emotional recognition and identification helps with regulation, self-awareness and social-emotional perception. Predictable chart writing helps students to develop their language skills in a control

In celebration of AAC month, I made this free Proloquo2Go page specifically for COVID-19 and returning to school. I wanted to have core and fringe available for autonomous communication, but also add some links to folders for ease of access to additional health-related and anatomical vocabulary. If you download the .p2g file, you can add it to your Proloquo2Go user's pageset by clicking on the gear icon in the top left, then the two arrows on the far right of the menu that appears to upload it.

I know many of us are going back to school, stressed out, trying to figure out how to do speech therapy with PPE on. I’ve created a helpful and fun way to demonstrate speech sound positions without having to remove your face mask. Introducing “Artic Sticks!” These printable cartoons demonstrate 10 different mouth shapes, with suggested phonemes listed above. I’ve included 12 different skin tones for each shape, and they are gender neutral. To use them, print out the desired shapes and skin ton

This free infographic describes the "I Do, We Do, You Do" model (Levey, 2007) which is used to build confidence when introducing new concepts. I've adapted it for use with AAC and modeling. Following the "I Do, We Do, You Do" is a powerful way to scaffold support so students can gain independence when communicating using a speech-generating device. The model begins with "I Do," or instructional compenent, demonstrating how to navigate and select context-appropriate buttons on a device. Next "We

This FREE visual support / task analysis strip is designed to support personal hygiene practices at school or at home. By developing personal care routines, students can learn valuable skills to prevent illness, supporting independence and socialization. Print and laminate this to have it handy as a part of your bathroom routine. It can also be cut into strips to target specific tasks. I hope these resources are helpful to your students with special needs! Please rate this material and follow my

This is a great End of the Year reflection activity for speech therapy and teletherapy sessions! Download Minecraft Education and sign in, then download this file and unzip it. Double click the .mcworld file to open it in Minecraft Education. Follow along the path and fill out your answers to the questions in the Book & Quill. Sign your PDF and save for records or to share with staff and caregivers. Hope this material is helpful for you! Please support Language Up Games at: www.LanguageUpGames.

Hayden from LanguageUpGames here! Looking for a no-prep FREE virtual activity targeting articulation in Minecraft??? I gotchu! :3 I created a world that can be imported into Minecraft: Education Edition for you and your students to use to work on Medial /R/. Just download and unzip the file, and (once you've downloaded and logged into Minecraft:Education Edition) double click the .mcaddon file and the world should automatically import! Follow along the path to a variety of practice sets, and rec

Hello! Hayden from LanguageUpGames here! Looking for a fun and easy handout you can use to practice Verbal Repair Strategies (or what to do when you're not understood)? Print this for a variety of options that can help to support times when communication is difficult. You can also use this to help train caregivers and staff on strategies that could help in that situation and what to do to be supportive. If you include this support in your classroom or student's educational plan, please consider

Safety and hygiene are important life skills for people with disabilities to learn. I've created a task analysis strip with visuals for taking a shower. This sheet provides visual supports to aid in understanding the steps required for taking a shower. I recommend to laminate it to make it waterproof. Use a waterproof marker to put checkmarks by each completed task. Have fun learning important hygiene skills with this visual task analysis strip!

Do you or your clients get bogged down by all the charting and progress tracking needed for things like AAC Evaluations or Assistive Technology Trials? I know... I know... Trust me, I know... That's why I made this simple, easy, fun AAC trackers for students and caregivers to use at home. I wanted it to be simple enough that everyone could complete it in a minute, but also help to stay organized and on-track with target words, staying on top of calls and appointments and with space for monthly

This is an interactive board game you can use on Google Slides during classroom activities and speech language therapy sessions. The rules are listed on the second slide, and the game board comprises the first slide. You or your students can input their names onto game pieces and then determine playing order. From there, you use the Dice Spinner (top left) link to spin for each student's turn. If a student lands on a "?" space, they can spin the Bonus Spinner (bottom right) link, and have a chan

This printable activity is designed for use with Apraxia of Speech. It features the /p/ sound in the initial position followed by vowels to create a variety of words or word approximations. The vowels are organized by tongue height (high on the page is high tongue, etc.). Use stickers, stamps, bingo blotters or game tokens to have fun! A free data tracking sheet is available.

Hello all! I've been doing a LOT of AAC Evaluations recently, and, as a speech pathologist and AAC specialist, I can say that one of the hardest parts for my family is knowing how to bring AAC into their homes and lives. To help with this, I created a 21 day habit tracker that can work for daily use, as well as a trial for an AAC Evaluation. This information can help you, your students/parents, and your AAC Team to understand what was most and least successful throughout the month and how you ca

Low-tech AAC is a cost-effective, versatile solution for functional communication with people with complex communication needs. Yes/No Sticks are one way to facilitate answering yes/no questions that can be adapted for use with students who communicate through direct selection or eye gaze, and can also be adapted for students with visual impairment. The yes is placed on the vertical stick to improve gestural communication (up and down for "yes"), and the no is placed horizontally for the gesture

Do your students love Minecraft? Do you use Minecraft in your classroom or in speech therapy? This is a great way to include learning goals in your session. I designed this for speech therapists like me, who use Minecraft on a daily basis, as a way to motivate students and make what we are working on in that session clear to them. Check out this resource for instructions on how to edit it, templates for your learning goals, and a variety of goals that you could target in Minecraft! I hope this

Let's chill and color this back-to-school season. This coloring activity is a great way to introduce students to your speech therapy room, talk about who you are, and also discuss their goal. Here is a printable, no-prep, super fun coloring activity that you can use to stimulate language and get back into the swing of speech, as you have a relaxing time coloring. Who could think of a more fun way to learn? I can! Add on your own high- or low-tech AAC and core boards to the mix for even MORE lan

I created this activity for use with students with Apraxia of Speech. It targets /b/ in the initial position for students working on CV syllable shapes. I've included pictures that match the words or word approximations. Students can use bingo blotters, markers, crayons, stickers, tokens or game pieces to play and learn! Included is also a data tracking sheet for your records and billing. See the key above for my suggested data tracking format.

Hey! It's Hayden from Language Up Games. Are you on the lookout for articulation activities that incorporate multimodal learning and stimulate both brain hemispheres? Look no further! My Articulables "Not-Sheets" are designed for just that! Use it to draw, digitize, trace over it, cut it out, and use bingo blotters, post-it notes, or any other craftsy item that tickles your articulatory fancy! So, kick back, grab your colored pencils or digital stylus (or fingers), and have fun coloring this hig

Hey! It's Hayden from Language Up Games. Are you on the lookout for articulation activities that incorporate multimodal learning and stimulate both brain hemispheres? Look no further! My Articulables "Not-Sheets" are designed for just that! Use it to draw, digitize, trace over it, cut it out, and use bingo blotters, post-it notes, or any other craftsy item that tickles your articulatory fancy! So, kick back, grab your colored pencils or digital stylus (or fingers), and have fun coloring this hig