SLP Mommy of Apraxia

Tag: Therapy materials

  • Word FLIPS giveaway!

    Day 5 leading up to Apraxia Awareness Day on May 14th has me offering a giveaway for Word FLIPS by Super Duper Publications.

    wordflipsWord FLIPS can be a useful and handy tool to use with kids who have apraxia.  It allows practice for simple CV syllable shapes for up to 3 repetitions.  It also allows for combining combos to form other bisyllabic words i.e. tie+knee = tiny.  I usually give my kids one of those finger pointers and we take turns pointing at and saying the words.

    Taken from their website:

    “Word FLIPS includes three sections of identical picture words with four tabs in each section that divide the words according to articulatory placement: Bilabial, Alveolar, Velar, and Palatal. Begin teaching severely unintelligible children by having them repeat identical earlier developing sounds, such as “boo-boo-boo.” Older or more verbal children can practice a variety of sequences, such as “tie-tea-shoe” as a warm-up to practicing sentences.

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  • Old Lady Who Swallowed a Chick Speech/Language Activity Pack

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    This is a little late, but I see private clients on Saturday and I needed an activity to go along with the book “There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Chick,” by Lucille Colandro.  As you probably know, I usually incorporate repetitive books into therapy as a way to provide vocabulary in context, but to also have the kids participate by having a part in the book to practice language and/or speech targets.

    I start with story cards while I’m telling the story:

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    Afterward, I have a sequencing grid place the pictures in order and work on various concepts such as first, next, last or before/after; or to aid in a story retell.

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    I included two separate following directions activities for the kids who need additional work with receptive language:

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    Sentence stem pages for subject pronoun and has/have agreement: she (pictured), he, and they

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    Finally a blown up picture of the “Old Lady” to place on a manila envelope or cereal box and have students “feed” her the story cards.  We usually practice saying “She at the…..”

     

    To get this activity, visit my TpT store: SLPMommyofApraxia TpT store

     

  • Pot O’Gold Articulation Game for Apraxia

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    I was finally able to make a new game for my kiddos with enough time to spare for St. Patrick’s Day! This game follows the same idea as my other repetitive games.  Kids have a game board, in this case, a black pot:

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    The kids draw a card from the card deck.  If the card contains a shamrock with gold coins, the child collects the amount of coins shown and then practices their targeted speech sound/syllable that amount of times.

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    Some cards have surprise twists that include “snatching coins from other players,” losing a turn, or giving some of their coins to other players.

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    The player with the most coins at the end wins the game! My kids really enjoy these games and I hope kids on your caseload do too!  Enjoy!  Get it in my teachers pay teachers store for free for a short time!

  • Feed the Snowman Articulation Game for high repetitions

    Feed the Snowman Articulation Game for high repetitions

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    I decided since my Spooky SpiderWeb game was so popular, I’d make another one for my kids with a winter snow theme.  I go back to work tomorrow and I’m excited to play this with the kids.

    You start with printing out the snowman boards. Glue onto a manila envelope or cereal box and cut out the mouth.

     

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    Then cut out the game cards and snow balls.  Cutting out the snowball will be a bit tedious, but if you laminate them, then you’ll never have to do it again!

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    The snowflake game cards come with pages containing 1-4 snowballs.  The child picks a card, and then gets to feed his/her snowman the number of balls on the card.  Of course, the number of snowballs dictates the amount of times the child must say their target word or sound.

    The snowman with the most snowballs wins!  Get it FREE in my TpT store for a limited time.  Follow me there or here so you don’t miss out on any freebies.

  • There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow: Book Companion/Activity Pack

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    As we move into January and I’m spending some time off during my winter break snowed in, I decided to create a follow up companion pack to my most popular companion pack to date, which was “I know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell.”

    This is a similar repetitive story named, “There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell.”  This companion pack follows a similar format:

    I start with blown up pictures to aid in story participation.  When I’m in a group, I give each child a picture and then they are to read that “part” of the book when it comes up.

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    Afterward, they take these pictures and “feed” the lady the items.  I have this blown up picture glued to a manila envelope with the mouth cut out.

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    Next I have a story pictures and sequencing grid to have the children sequence the story and then have the option of visual aids to use for the story retell.

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    I did a following directions activity focusing on comparatives and superlatives.  The directions ask the child to circle the smallest coal lump, or draw a line above the largest snowball etc.

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    For an added challenge, I included an additional page to work on temporal concepts.  Directions include things like, “Before you touch the smallest coal lump, touch the largest hat.”

    Finally, I included 3 sentence stem worksheets.  “She saw….” “She has…..” “She ate…..”

    To get this activity, please visit my TpT store at: SLPMommyofApraxia.  Stay warm!

  • The Gingerbread Man Speech/Language Activity/Companion Pack

    The Gingerbread Man Speech/Language Activity/Companion Pack

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    The Gingerbread Man is a classic story that all my kid’s love.  It is a repetitive style book, and as you know, I love using repetitive books in therapy!  The first page has some pictures to cut out and use while reading the story as props.  You can even glue them onto popsicle sticks if you’re so inclined!

     

     

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    Next, if you’ve bought any of book companions, you know what a fan I am of sequencing activities.  This one contains one too with sequencing grid.

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    The mini book in this unit works on “where” questions and teaching early spatial concepts.  The child glues the gingerbread men on a preceeding page in the correct places in the mini book.

     

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    The next four pages contain 8 sets of rhyming words in picture and written form for you kids to match or play with to work on early phonemic awareness skills.

     

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    The last two pages have sentence stem activities for repetitive practice for regular past tense and an irregular past tense verb using the story vocabulary.Slide12

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    To get this activity, go to my TpT store!