Leap Speech

Helpful handout to explain the complexity approach to parents (and ourselves!) I use this when I need a refresher to guide which sounds I should be targeting for my clients with phonological sound errors. I like the waterfall analogy because it's one of the few things in nature where we start at the top to create change towards the bottom!

Looking for an easy way to show parents the importance of prelinguistic skills? I created this apple tree to explain the foundational skills for language development in 0-3 year olds. Discussing this with parents has helped them celebrate the little wins. It's not always about the apples! We celebrate the roots too!

Organizer for the 4 communication functions (labels, protests, comments, and requests). I use this with my expressive language delay, autism, AAC, and gestalt language clients to categorize each of their utterances during language samples and during our regular sessions.

Parent handout to explain the four communication functions (labels, protests, comments, & requests). I use this to explain language functions for early intervention, autism, gestalt language processing, and AAC. I also use it as the speech therapist myself to classify utterances into these categories.

Comparison of gestalt language processing and analytic language processing. I find this to be a helpful list of traits when introducing GLP to parents. It's a brief summary for parents to reference at home. Note that every child may not be 100% gestalt or analytic, but rather, have some gestalt traits and some analytic traits.