Examples of Materials That Can Be Adapted For Therapy
a collection of resources by Judith Maginnis Kuster
The following is one section of Judith Kuster's Net Connections for Communication Disorders and Sciences (www.communicationdisorders.com). The internet is FULL of materials that can be adapted to speech-language therapy. All the of URLs listed below were current when this was fully updated January 2007. Additional URLs have been added since then, and changes is URLs have been made as I have discovered them, as reflected by the date at the bottom of the page. Be aware that URLs change and disappear and other sites are available and will become available. These sites are provided simply as good examples.
Examples of "interactive"
sites
- Woodlands Literacy Zone an amazing site with links to online interactive activities on words and spellings, grammar and punctuation, writing and text work, and online stories. (www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy/index.htm)
- Whomp (www.fekids.com/kln/games/whomp) - like an online Boggle
- Word Dice (www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2literacy.html)
- English Eggs (www.inglese.it/eggs.htm)
- Speech Therapy Games - from Junior's Web, a commercial site with several free interactive examples (www.juniorsweb.com/slp/?src=overture)
- Games Centre, (www.abc.net.au/children/games/default.htm) interactive games from Australia.
- Animal Sounds (www.abc.net.au/children/bananas/games/animal_sounds/default.htm)
- Who Am I - guess animal sounds (www.kidsplanet.org/games/js/whoami.html)
- Build-a-Bear Interactive Activities (www.buildabear.com/play/default.aspx?pageID=games)
- Dress Up activities - many links to dress up dolls, rooms, cities, robots, and much more (www.dressupgames.com/index.html)
- Houghton Mifflin Spelling Match (www.eduplace.com/cgi-bin/schtemplate.cgi?template=/kids/hmsv/smg/smg.thtml&game_file=game_6_30&grade=6&unit=30)
- Games from Scholastic.com -
(www.scholastic.com/kids/games.htm) check out make your own comic about Captain Underpants (http://www.scholastic.com/captainunderpants/comic.htm) (check out the language first to determine if it is appropriate for your child, and for your personal taste;-), the Magic School Bus (www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/games/home.htm) and Building Language for Literacy, (www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/games/home.htm).
- Interactive Literacy Resources - plurals, Three Little Pigs, etc. (www.crick.northants.sch.uk/pageliteracy.html)
- Online games, (www.realarcade.com) including Wheel of Fortune
- Subservient Chicken (www.subservientchicken.com)
- Kids and Teachers
(www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/education/index.asp) - from National Institute of Deafness
and other Communication Disorders
- Yeti, The Abominable snowman
(www.newweb.net/cgi-bin/yeti/yeticgi.pl) - a Knowbot
- Ozmo the Oracle (www.cyberhaunt.com/site/fun/attractions/ozmo.html)
- Mr. Picasso Head (www.mrpicassohead.com/create.html)
- Scary Spuds (www.crickweb.co.uk/Early-Years.html)
- Many wonderful word activities (http://pbskids.org/lions/games)
- What's in the Bag? (www.readwritethink.org/materials/in_the_bag/index.html)
- Sorting Games (www.mape.org.uk/activities/sorting_games/index.htm) like a simplified 20 questions which encourages careful evaluation of a set of similar pictures.
- Game Goo: Learning That Sticks (www.earobics.com/gamegoo/gooeylo.html)
- Lecky activities and more (www.crickweb.co.uk/Early-Years.html)
- Monkey Squash and many more activities. (http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-games-play-and-learn.htm), part of LearnEnglishKids (ww.britishcouncil.org/kids.htm)
- Candlelight Stories Stellar Speller (www.candlelightstories.com/Games/StellarSpeller.htm)
- What's Different (www.dotolearn.com/games/whatsdifferent/index.htm)
- Etch-A-Sketch -
online etch-a-sketch (www.dtchy.org)
- Billy Bear's Playground (www.billybear4kids.com/index.html)
- You've got to be kidding
(pbskids.org/arthur/games/index.html) - a problem solving activity.
- Tictactoe and other interactive games- (www.bu.edu/Games/games.html) - for non-java and java capable browsers.
- ABC Teach online educational games
(abcteach.com/directory/educational_links/educational_games/).
- Kids Games (www.kidsgames.org/)
- Cyberkids
(www.cyberkids.com/fg/index.html) games and activities.
- Awesome Library's links to interactive online activities (www.awesomelibrary.org/Office/Main/New_and_Exciting/Games.html) is worth exploring.
- The English Experiment (www.wordcentral.com/games.html).
- Kendra's Coloring Book
(www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/7155/)
- Coloring
Book (coloring.com)
- Bella's animal noises (www.snaithprimary.eril.net/fodd4.htm)
- Letterland (www.letterland.com)
- Kids Hub (KidsHub.org/kids/kids.cfm) is a fun learning center for elementary school and middle school students. It features free online interactive lessons, educational games, puzzles, and quizzes.
Examples of reproducibles and activities that can be adapted for therapy
- Animal Concentration Cards (www.bry-backmanor.org/animalconcentration.html) from Bry-Back Manor
- File Folder Games (www.preschoolprintables.com/filefolder/filefolder.shtml) and other printables are available from Preschool Printables (www.preschoolprintables.com)
- ABC Teach (abcteach.com/) has free Printable activity sheets and project helpers
- The Attic (www.bry-backmanor.org/activitypages.html)
- Picture Dominoes (http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/reproducibles/profbooks/p980101a.htm)
- Chateau
Meddybemps (www.meddybemps.com) - young writer's workshop
- Picture Dictionary
(www.EnchantedLearning.com/Dictionary.html) has nearly 2500 entries, and suggested activities for early readers and grades 2-3
- Teach-nology's Free Language Arts Worksheets
(www.myworksheets.com/language_arts/) from Teach-nology, a subscription site with many free items
- Printables and Worksheets
(atozteacherstuff.com/Printables/index.shtml). Check the Story
Starters (atozteacherstuff.com/Printables/Story_Starters/index.shtml)
- Dot to Dot (www.kidsrcrafty.com/dot-to-dot.htm)
- Printable word activities (http://pbskids.org/lions/printables/)
- 400 free printable worksheets (choose "early English") (http://preschoollearners.com/)
- Dominoes (www.senteacher.org/Enlarge/22/Dominoes.xhtml) from SEN Teacher free printables (www.senteacher.org/Print/)
- Kizclub (www.kizclub.com) has a variety of activities and printables.
- Speech Guy (www.therasimplicity.com)
- Language Study Stacks (www.studystack.com/category-6) contains flashcards, hangman games, word search, matching and other activities. You can also create your own set of flashcards to add to the site.
- Spelling materials (http://flashcardexchange.com/tag/spelling) - multiple flashcards, lists, activities, etc.
- Picture Cards (www.dotolearn.com/picturecards/printcards/index.htm) from DoToLearn.
- Language Arts Lessons & Helps (www.geocities.com/Athens/8259/lplan2.html)
- LearningPage.Com
(www.learningpage.com) is filled with reproducibles for teachers, parents and
homeschoolers.
- Hands on Phonics A to Z
(www.lessontutor.com/readingkinhome.html)
- KidsDomain Holiday
Activities (www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/index.html) - check around this site
- many reproducibles
- Special Education(www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/6097/special.html)
- RHL School's reading comprehension worksheets
(rhlschool.com/reading.htm), Grammar
worksheets (www.rhlschool.com/english.htm), and more sections to explore.
- edHelper.com (www.edHelper.com) has free examples of Worksheets, Lessons, WebQuests, Teacher Tools, Spelling, Puzzles, and Vocabulary Worksheets.
- Flashcard exchange -
(www.flashcardexchange.com/index.php), membership required PDA Download - A PDA is a Palm Pilot or
Windows CE device. Study these flashcards on the bus!
- Kid's Page Archive (www.tlsbooks.com/kidspagearchive.htm) - free printable worksheets
Additional "Kid Stuff"
Below are a few links to toys, books, and television programs popular with young children. Searching these sites will often turn up activities that can be adapted for therapy.
Examples of books, stories, magazines, podcasts, and movies that can provide materials for therapy
- Magazines
- Examples of short articles/stories and books which could be used for a variety of therapy activities
- Movie Trailers and Vlogs
- Clips from movies especially interesting to kids (http://kids.yahoo.com/movies/dvd/dvdcomingsoon)
- Sesame Street videos - even several of Kermit as well as being able to see Mr. Hooper and Gordon again (http://video.sesameworkshop.org)
- Movie List (www.movie-list.com) and Quicktime movie trailers (www.apple.com/trailers) have movie trailers for stimulating conversation.
- You Tube is a "vlog" center where you can watch and share your videos worldwide. Finding short, appropriate videos can be conversation starters to use in treatment. They are video-streamed and should be previewed prior to using them. (www.youtube.com/index). One that is especially good is You Don't Always Die From Tobacco (www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ2AzmbYcCO).
Examples of actual Clinical Materials/Ideas on the Internet
Language
- Diagnosis of language disorders
- The Edmonton Narrative Norms Instrument (ENNI) (http://www.rehabmed.ualberta.ca/spa/enni/) is norm-referenced narrative assessment instrument for collecting language information from children aged 4 to 9 through storytelling, by Phyllis Schneider, Rita Vis Dubé, and Denyse Hayward. Contains several stories without words. Norms from a sample of 377 children are included for a number of analyses, including story information, referring expressions, and standard language analyses such as number of different words, Mean Length of Communication Unit, and Subordination Index.
- Checklists and Forms (www.speechpathology.com/schoolBased/checklists.asp) - many language teacher checklists such as "Things I know and can do."
- General Language Sites
- word/language games (www.quia.com/pages/havefun.html) - created on QUIA by Tracy Gefroh Boyd
- sequencing games (www.quia.com/pages/sequencingfun.html) - created on QUIA by Tracy Gefroh Boyd
- Excellent resource guides for classroom teachers (www.bced.gov.bc.ca/specialed/) of children with special needs, including hard of hearing and deaf students, Understanding the Needs of the FAS/E Student, children with autism, ADHD, children with special learning disabilities, etc. from the British Columbia Ministry of Education, Skills and Training.
- MES English - free printable for teachers of young learners. (www.mes-english.com)
- Figurative language
- A Gold Mine of Phonics and Phonemic Awareness Worksheets (www.tampareads.com/phonics/phonicsindex.htm) has over 50 sample phonics and phonemic awareness worksheets.
- Language therapy ideas
(www.nciOHIO.com/therapy.htm)
- ParentPals.Com (www.parentpals.com) is a
gifted and special education Web site for parents, includes Internet
educational and treatment games
to enhance learning and language skills (www.parentpals.com/gossamer/pages/Special_Education_Games/index.html)
organized in levels of difficulty.
- Listen Up (www.listen-up.org/) has links to many handouts and material sites for parents as well as language stimulation and therapy ideas
- Additional
child language therapy ideas
(www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster2/therapy/languagerx.html)
- A Guide to
Learning Disabilities for the ESL Classroom Practitioner
(www.cc.\
kyoto-su.ac.jp/information/tesl-ej/ej01/a.4.html)
- Teacher to Teacher from the Ohio
Literacy Resource Center (literacy.kent.edu/Oasis/index.html) provides ideas and activities (literacy.kent.edu/Oasis/Pubs/0300.htm).
- Suggestions
for teaching Lexical Stress Patterns in English
(www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster2/basics/teachingstress.html) collected and summarized by Laura Koenig
- Activities to encourage communication
(aac.unl.edu/intervention/Encourage_Communication.html)
- Phonemic
Awareness Lesson Plans for children K-2
(http://lessonplanz.com/Lesson_Plans/Language_Arts/__Grades_K-2/Phonemic_Awareness/index.shtml).
- Language Activities (www.speechtx.com/language.htm)
- The Educator's Reference Desk Language Arts Lesson Plans contain many ideas. (www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/lessons.cgi/Language_Arts)
- Parentstalk
Games (www.parentstalk.com/monthlygame/monthlygame.html)
- Auditory-Verbal Therapy Ideas (www.nciohio.com/therapy.htm) - Home Therapy Ideas for language
- Teaching Strategies and Techniques (www.ldonline.org/indepth/teaching) - includes a series of online articles focusing on Teaching phonological awareness, reading, Teaching spelling, Teaching oral and written language, Teaching organization, active reading/ listening, and study skills, and Teaching social/ behavior skills.
- Working on vocabulary
- World of Words vocabulary games by Lonn Swanson (www.quia.com/pages/worldowords.html)
- Online version of Twenty Questions - (come.to/20Q)
- Vocabulary University
(www.vocabulary.com/) has many activities such as Fill-in-the-Blanks, Definition Matching, Synonym & Antonym Encounter, Word Find and Crossword for older children and adults.
- Printables
(pbskids.org/adventures/treasurebox/printables.html) from PBS, including word
search and crossword puzzles.
- Clicker (clickler.com/crickler.html) - a new type of crossword puzzle that gears itself to your level.
- Various printables (www.speakingofspeech.com/generic.html?pid=26) from Materials Exchange.
- Rootonym (www.uclick.com/client/mma/tmroo/)
- There are a variety of types of Hangman available online.
- Quia's Online Autumn Hangman (www.quia.com/hm/1726.html) - an easy version, available in "Flash" or "html" version.
- Guess the Word by PBS, a variation of hangman
(pbskids.org/adventures/treasurebox/hiddenword/index.html).
- KidsCom Hangman (www.kidscom.com/games/hangman/hangman.html)
- Genuine Class Hangman (www.genuineclass.com/games/hangman.html)
- Animals Hangman (www.eslcafe.com/hangman/animals1.cgi)
- Plants Hangman (www.eslcafe.com/hangman/plants1.cgi)
- Hangman Games for ESL Students (www.manythings.org/hm/) - has many subject choices in both CGI (older) and Flash (newer) versions.
- SuperKids hangman (superkids.com/aweb/tools/words/hangman/) includes idioms, SAT vocabulary words, TV shows from different decades, U.S. Presidents, State Capitals, and much more!
- Playaholics (web.archive.org/web/20030215052352/http://www.hangman.no/") in English or Norwegian has three levels of difficulty and an interesting selection of topics, including "frequently misspelled words."
- Triumph Hangman (http://triumphpc.com/hangman/) uses challenging words.
- The Problem Site
(www.theproblemsite.com/games/hangman.asp) The vocabularly is not easy! My first word was "approximating."
- Bill's Games Hangman (www.billsgames.com/hangman/index.html) allows choice of topic, number of guesses, and a happy face or growing plant as the "hangman." The clinician can even enter a word for the client to "discover." This one rates 4 stars!
- Stay Afloat (www.funbrain.com/funbrain/hangman) has sports stars, Harry Potter book words, geography and science words, and more. It provides additional clues after each wrong guess.
- Dolch words Hangman (www.novelgames.com/flashgames/game.swf?id=8)
- Bones Hangman (www.teilhard.com/kids/bones.html) where "you diminish the dreams of a sleeping dog" with each incorrect guess.
- Internet Movie Database quiz (http://us.imdb.com/sections/games/quiz) features movie trivia and names of stars. Allows four incorrect guesses.
- Guess the Presidents (www.mce.k12tn.net/us_presidents/hangman.htm) does not limit number of guesses. Everyone wins eventually.
- Music hangman (www.renoweb.net/rlam/game.htm) gives only one minute to figure out the music-related words.
- Hang2000 (www.kidsdomain.com/down/mac/hangmanplus.html) is a Macintosh shareware hangman ($20 suggested donation). It has 38 subject categories, levels of difficulty and allows you to customize word choices, which could become a good activity for a child/teen who stutters to become familiar with vocabulary about stuttering, for practice with spelling word lists, or as review for students in an anatomy class to recall, and remember how to spell, the new vocabulary introduced.
- Cleft the Spelling Clown (for PC) (www.akidsheart.com/threer/spellclowndes.htm) is a hangman type game that pops balloons. You can add up to 10 spelling lists of your choice.
- Grey Olltwit's Hangman (for PC) (www.greyolltwit.com/hangman.html) includes a variety of categories.
- Collective nouns and a whole lot more (www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2literacy.html)
- In the Classroom (www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/Phonics_Link/classroom.html) provides teachers with a systematic framework for implementing phoneme awareness and phonics activities into grades K-3. (linked to California Content Standards for language arts and are easily adapted to the words and stories used in any classroom).
- Words and Pictures (www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/index.shtml) many activities from the BBC.
- FakeOut is a game of word definitions (www.eduplace.com/fakeout)
- EDU4KIDS
(www.edu4kids.com) has a vocabulary building activity.
- Spell Check has 20 sets of
four words to check your spelling skills (www.funbrain.com/spell/index.html).
- Online activities
including concentration, a hidden word search (variation of
hangman), words search, crossword puzzle, from PBS
(pbskids.org/adventures/treasurebox/games.html)
- Two Way Words - an
activity for making compound words (www.agameaday.com/kidsdomain/coindom1.htm).
- VoyCabulary (www.voycabulary.com) makes the words on any webpage into links so you can look them up in a dictionary or other word-reference-site of your choice, by simply clicking on the words.
- The Merrian-Webster
site (m-w.com) has a box on the first page where you can enter a word. That
will take you to a page where your computer will let you hear how the word is
pronounced in "General America" accent.
- Word Turtle provides a list of words
which it will then hide in a puzzle in different levels of difficulty
(www.funbrain.com/detect/). You can play it on the computer or print it out on
paper.
- Robob Word Scramble
(www.ohio-distinctive.com/toybox/scramble.html)
- The Daily Crossword
(thinks.com/crosswords/daily_crossword.htm)
- Word Find Puzzles
(www.eduplace.com/kids/games/wwf/index.html) - that can be printed out
- Crosswords
and other puzzles(www.kidcrosswords.com/)
- Helping Kids Learn Words by Genese Warr-Leeper, PhD (www.oafccd.com/factshee/fact43.htm)
- Word Play contains many links to sites that can enhance vocabulary development (www.wolinskyweb.com/word.htm).
- Colored vocabulary flashcards in pdf format
- Working on Morphology/Syntax
Other Language Materials - primarily designed for Teaching English as a Second Language, but easily adapted for children with language-learning disorders and adults who are re-learning language following a stroke.
- What American Accent Do You Have?
(www.gotoquiz.com/what_american_accent_do_you_have)
- Clinical Decision Making with Linguistically Diverse Learners (www.clinicaldecision.umn.edu) - a free, self-study curriculum for SLPs
- Interesting Things for ESL Students (www.manythings.org)
- Aardvark's English-Forum.Com
(www.englishforum.com/00/) contains tons of materials, including Interactive English Language
exercises for vocabulary, grammar, idioms.
(www.englishforum.com/00/interactive)
- ESL Resource Center (www.eslus.com/eslcenter.htm)
- Speech Accent Archive (http://accent.gmu.edu) examines the accented speech of speakers from many different language backgrounds reading the same sample paragraph.
- Boggles World (bogglesworldesl.com/)
- Paul Brian's Common Errors in English (www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/index.html) has a helpful list with explanation for second language learners and higher-functioning language activities.
- Daniel Kies Modern English Grammar - a hypertext book (http://papyr.com/hypertextbooks/grammar/)
- ESL Handouts - free English grammar and vocabulary worksheets and printable handouts, for English language and English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers and instructors to use in the classroom or other teaching environment. (www.usingenglish.com/handouts/)
- Activities for ESL Students (a4esl.org/) has over
1,000 activities, contributed by many teachers, including Self study quizzes for ESL
students (www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/) - Grammar Quizzes, Homonyms,
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs & Slang, Scrambled Words, Vocabulary Quiz Quizzes,
Holidays, Trivia and Misc.
- Interactive
English Language Exercises (www.englishforum.com/)
- Lots of ESL (language) activities (http://www.eflclub.com/index.html)
- Comenius English Language Center
(www.comenius.com) provides free online activities.
- Grammar quizzes
and exercises (www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/1979/grammar.html) from
Taiwan Teacher.
- The English Zone
(www.english-zone.com/) has worksheets for grammar, verbs, idioms, vocabulary,
spelling, conversation, study skills, reading, and writing. Can subscribe for a
fee but also has several free items.
- Interesting Things for ESL Students
(www.aitech.ac.jp/~itesls/)contains word games, puzzles, quizzes, slang, and
proverbs. Be sure to check the flashcards here (www.manythings.org/fc/) and here (www.manythings.org/fq/) as well
as Wordmeister
(www.manythings.org/wm/) for stroke survivors.
- LinguaCenter Grammar Safari (www.iei.uiuc.edu/web.pages/student_grammarsafari.html).
- The English Professor
(www.theenglishprofessor.com/) is a commercial site, but has free
Listening Activities
(www.theenglishprofessor.com/alphal.htm) and Grammar Exercises
(www.theenglishprofessor.com/fs6.htm).
- Dave's ESL Cafe
(www.eslcafe.com) has a collection of language
materials.
- Dave
Sperling's ESL Web Guide
(www.eslcafe.com/search/) has over 3000 listings, many to appropriate potential
language materials.
- Ohio University's ESL
Resources (www.ohiou.edu/esl/english/index.html) organizes links for
working on Grammar, Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking, and Vocabulary.
- 1-language.com (www.1-language.com) is comprehensive ESL Site including forums, realtime chat, grammar, writing, interactive quizzes and games, flashcards, phonics, streaming audio materials, world news, TOEIC modules, helplines, multi-lingual content, and much more.
- English Pronunciation/Listening
includes interactive lesson plans and worksheets introducing several sounds second language learners have problems with in English. (http://international.ouc.bc.ca/pronunciation/)
-
Breaking News English - Ready-to-use EFL/ESL Lesson Plans & Podcast (www.breakingnewsenglish.com/)
- Helpful sites to work on pronunciation and accent reduction
Working on Prosody
Speech sound disorders
- Decision Tree for helping to decide treatment approach for speech sound disorders, by Peter Flipsen (http://speech-language-therapy.com/tree.pdf).
- QUIA (www.quia.com/topics.html) -
check especially early learning and speech - is now subscription-based for a fee. But some treasures can still be accessed without "joining."
- Articulation
Therapy Ideas
(www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster2/therapy/articrx.html) from the
Grndrnds archive
- Various materials (www.speakingofspeech.com/generic.html?pid=26) from Materials Exchange
- A Collection of Approaches to the "R" Sound (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster2/therapy/rtherapy.html)
- The Sounds of English and Spanish - from the University of Iowa
(www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/)
- Minimal pairs - vowels and consonants
(pages.britishlibrary.net/marlodge/wordlist/index.html) by John Higgins
- Various worksheets and printables from edHelper.com (www.edHelper.com) - a subscription site with freely-available samples
- Therapy Resources For Speech-Language Pathologists by Caroline Bowen provides free worksheets, handouts, pictures and words in PDF files for the following:
- Useful lists of words of picturable minimal pairs
- Minimal Pairs Pictures work sheets for /f/ vs. /s/; /k/ vs. /t/; and /w/ vs. /l/
- Revisions and Repairs for /f/ vs. /w/; /f/ vs. /p/; /s/ vs. /h/; /k/ and /g/ vs. /t/ and /d/; Interdental /s/ and /z/, /sn/ vs. /n/; Vowels: "er" vs. "or"; Vowels: "e" vs. "u"; Weak Syllable Deletion; Final Consonant Deletion; Gliding /l/
- Words and Pictures worksheets for /l/, /s/, "ch", /f/, and polysyllables
- Consumer Slide Shows For Speech-Language Pathologists by Caroline Bowen, are PowerPoint programs designed to share with families, teachers and others about children with speech sound disorders. PDF handouts are also provided.
- Adult Communicative Styles "Adults can modify the way they talk to reticent children in order for facilitate richer conversational exchanges...[for] educating" parents, teachers, and other adults about talking to children with speech and language impairments."
-
- Modelling and Recasting - a slide show . . . to use when explaining and demonstrating to caregivers effective ways of modelling and recasting with children with speech sound disorders."
- Frequency of recasting - additional information to that provided above
- Revisions and Repairs - demonstrates how adults can "talk simply to children about revisions and repairs. Scripts are provided to families to introduce them to the technique."
- Encouraging
Normal Speech Patterns (members.tripod.com/Caroline_Bowen/encourage.html)
by Caroline Bowen
- Child
apraxia therapy ideas
(www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster2/therapy/apraxiarx.html) gleaned from
mailing lists and elsewhere
- Things to do at home
to encourage speech (www.apraxia-kids.org/indexes/indextodo.html) -
suggestions for parents from Apraxia Kids.
- Lisping
(members.tripod.com/Caroline_Bowen/lisping.htm)
- Articulation activities
(www.speechtx.com/articulation.htm) from Jennifer Mitchell.
- Visualarticulation
lesson plan by Thomas G. Schultz
(www.kodak.com/global/en/consumer/education/lessonPlans/lessonPlan121.shtml)
- Aids to Pronunciation
(www.faceweb.okanagan.bc.ca/pron/) from Okanagan University College has several
interesting activities online
- Carryover Activities For Speech Sound Production Practice (members.tripod.com/crokebeck/articcar.htm)
- Learning activities for preK-1st grade kids (and their parents) for speech sounds. (www.cogcon.com/parents/summeractivities.cfm)
- Working on Specific Speech Sounds from Help For Kids (www.helpforkidspeech.org/)
- B Sound (www.helpforkidspeech.org/articles/detail.cfm?id=125)
- D Sound (www.helpforkidspeech.org/articles/detail.cfm?id=132)
- F Sound (www.helpforkidspeech.org/articles/detail.cfm?id=126)
- G Sound (www.helpforkidspeech.org/articles/detail.cfm?id=127)
- H Sound (www.helpforkidspeech.org/articles/detail.cfm?id=128)
- K Sound (www.helpforkidspeech.org/articles/detail.cfm?id=129)
- M Sound (www.helpforkidspeech.org/articles/detail.cfm?id=130)
- P Sound (www.helpforkidspeech.org/articles/detail.cfm?id=124)
- Z Sound (www.helpforkidspeech.org/articles/detail.cfm?id=141)
- W Sound (www.helpforkidspeech.org/articles/detail.cfm?id=131)
- R Sound (www.helpforkidspeech.org/articles/detail.cfm?id=276)
- Various worksheets and printables of Consonant Sounds from edHelper.com (www.edHelper.com) - a subscription site with freely-available samples
- /b/
sound as in bonfire, black, bathtub, and balcony (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Consonants1.htm)
- /d/
sound as in dry, draw, design, and duet (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Consonants2.htm)
- /f/
sound as in fossil, fail, frame, and fingerprint (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Consonants3.htm)
- /g/
sound as in greeting, grill, goose, and grapefruit (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Consonants4.htm)
- /h/
sound as in hail, hieroglyphics, hostage, and hit (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Consonants5.htm)
- /k/
sound as in key, knock, kangaroo, and kayak (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Consonants7.htm)
- /l/
sound as in lizard, learn, lamp, and library (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Consonants8.htm)
- /m/
sound as in mug, money, maze, and mechanical (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Consonants9.htm)
- /n/
sound as in night, newspaper, nightmare, and noodle (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Consonants10.htm)
- /p/
sound as in panda, pie, pen, and potato (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Consonants11.htm)
- /r/
sound as in rose, restaurant, run, and reporter (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Consonants12.htm)
- /s/
sound as in safe, sunset, sand, and seat (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Consonants13.htm)
- /t/
sound as in tile, thermometer, tongue, and toy (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Consonants14.htm)
- /v/
sound as in violin, volcano, vaccination, and vote (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Consonants15.htm)
- /w/
sound as in waterfall, wagon, windmill, and watch (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Consonants16.htm)
- /j/
sound as in yoke, yawn, yacht, and yoga (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Consonants17.htm)
- /z/
sound as in zebra, zoo, and zipper (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Consonants18.htm)
- "ch" sound
as in watch, chick, chimpanzee, and champion (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Consonants19.htm)
- "j" sound as in magician, syringe, jeep, and message (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Consonants6.htm)
- "sh"
sound as in shore, shipwreck, shark, and shield (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Consonants20.htm)
- "zh"
sound as in measure, camouflage, treasure, and mirage (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Consonants21.htm)
- "th"
sound as in athlete, toothbrush, bathtub, and thunderstorm (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Consonants22.htm)
- "ng"
sound as in fang, boomerang, fingerprint, and ink (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Consonants24.htm)
- /e/
sound as in snail, ache, explain, and reindeer (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Vowels1.htm)
- /i/
sound as in needle, pianist, and electricity (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Vowels2.htm)
- "ai"
sound as in cry, tightrope, tile, and violin (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Vowels3.htm)
- /o/
sound as in domino, ghost, pillow, and stethoscope (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Vowels4.htm)
- /u/
sound as in salute, toothbrush, goose, and costume (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Vowels5.htm)
- a
sound as in taxi, anniversary, laboratory, and tackle (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Vowels6.htm)
- "eh"
sound as in elevator, jellyfish, pentagon, and dentist (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Vowels7.htm)
- /I/
sound as in gift, inflate, spinach, and cereal (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Vowels8.htm)
- "ah"
sound as in camouflage, garage, chop, and binoculars (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Vowels9.htm)
- "ER"
sound as in currency, curtain, and turtle (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Vowels10.htm)
- "er"
sound as in
spider, certificate, and beaver (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Vowels11.htm)
-
"aw" sound
as in observatory, author, orchard, and baseball (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Vowels12.htm)
- "oy"
sound as in boil, poison, toilet, and annoy (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Vowels13.htm)
- "ow" sound as in lighthouse, cow, flower, and fountain (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Vowels14.htm)
- "uw"
sound as in
pulley, platypus, pull, and football (www.edhelper.com/phonics/Vowels15.htm)
- Interactive Sagittal Section by Daniel Currie Hall, "displays mid-sagittal sections and IPA transcriptions for user-specified articulations." Can be used to demonstrate place of articulation. (www.chass.utoronto.ca/~danhall/phonetics/sammy.html)
-
Phonology homework ideas and worksheets. (www.preschoolfun.com/pages/speech.htm).
-
phonemic awareness at-home activities for parents (www.cogcon.com/parents/summeractivities.cfm)
- Resources for Clinicians - (web.utk.edu/~pflipsen/Clinical_Resources.html) materials from Peter Flipsen, including focused auditory stimulation lists.
- EdHelper.com (edhelper.com) - spelling, vocabulary, Language Arts Worksheets, Reading Comprehension , Phonics Section with Printables and Worksheets.
- Phonological and Phonemic Awareness (www.csu.edu.au/faculty/science/cmhealth/Speech/2001/Lowrie/index.html) by
Jenny Lowrie includes ideas for activities to increase phonological and phonemic awareness (www.csu.edu.au/faculty/health/cmhealth/Speech/2001/Lowrie/page2.html)
-
words lists for articulation practice (http://staff.wssd.k12.pa.us/mdimarco/soundpage.html)
- Quick Screener - a quick test of articulation and phonology by Caroline Bowen
A few examples of using these materials to work on literacy issues as outlined by Christine Maul's ASHA handout online and suggested in ASHA's Roles & Responsibilities of SLPs With Respect to Reading & Writing in Children & Adolescents - Guidelines.
- Environmental Print Awareness
- Focus on print symbols
- Use logos and signs of fast food restaurants, street signs, movie theater signs, logos on cereal boxes, toys
- Include written words on picture stimuli.
- Use printed words as cues
- Personal Educational Press (www.educationalpress.org/educationalpress) - produce word flash cards
- Primary Games (www.primarygames.com/index.html) - includes "word lab"
- CVC Maker (www.crickweb.co.uk/ks1literacy.html) and many other interactive literacy activities at different skill levels
- Use print stimuli for phrase and sentence activities
-
Goldilocks Sequencing (www.teachingideas.co.uk/english/contents.htm) and other downloads from TeachingIdeas
- Alphabetic/Letter Knowledge
- Concepts of Phonology and Skill in Phonological Processing ("Suggestions on Reading Nursery Rhymes With Children" (www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/dreamhouse/nursery/reading.html) provides several good ideas on how freely available materials below can be used for working on rhyme and alliteration)
- Nursery rhymes
- The Real Mother Goose by Blanche Fisher Wright, beautiful PDF of this entire classic (www.gutenberg.org/etext/10607)
- 48 Mother Goose and nursery rhyme pages to print out and color (www.niteowl.org/kids/index.html)
- Rhyme pages (www.EnchantedLearning.com/Rhymes.html) from Enchanted Learning has Word families in nursery rhymes (www.enchantedlearning.com/rhymes/wordfamilies/), Rebus rhymes (www.enchantedlearning.com/Rhymes.html) and a Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes Coloring Book (www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/books/rhymesbook/)
- Our Favorite Nursery rhymes (www.snaithprimary.eril.net/rindex.htm) includes music and some pictures to color.
- Children's Songs - lyrics and midi format
(www.theteachersguide.com/ChildrensSongs.htm)
- Nursery Rhymes - midi format (www.nursery-rhymes.info)
- Magnetic Poetry - llike refrigerator magnets (www.snaithprimary.eril.net/nursery.htm).
- Stories from the web has magnetic poetry (www.storiesfromtheweb.org/sfwhomepage.htm)
- Word Family Sort (www.readwritethink.org/materials/wordfamily/)
- Rhyme a Week: Nursery Rhymes for Early Literacy - colorful pictures, activities, free materials (http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/wil/rimes_and_rhymes.htm)
- Nursery Rhyme Club - PDF files of simple activities to accompany nursery rhymes (www.hdsmag.com/contents.html)
- Rhymes grouped by theme (www-personal.umich.edu/%7Epfa/dreamhouse/nursery/rhymes.html)
- Nursery Rhymes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursery_rhyme)
- DLTK's Educational Activities: Children's Songs, Fairy Tales & Nursery Rhymes Section contains lyrics, coloring pages, craft ideas, and activity sheets to go with the songs, rhymes and stories. (www.dltk-teach.com/rhymes/index.htm)
- Annie's Rhyme Time - answer the riddle with a two-word rhyme (http://teacher.scholastic.com/annie/index.asp)
- Rhyming Picture Cards (www.kizclub.com/nursery.htm)
- Word Families and Rhyming Words (aslp.byu.edu/BCulatta/projectcall/rhymewordslist.html)
- Rhyme Zone (www.rhymezone.com) has a rhyming dictionary, quizzes, quotations, and more. Check the Mother Goose feature to find your favorite nursery rhymes (www.rhymezone.com/g/goose)
- Jump rope jingles (www.aacs.wnyric.org/donius/jump_rope/rhymes.html) and Jump rope jingles
(www.garrard.k12.ky.us/traditions/projects/claps/claps.htm)
- Alliteration
- Finger Plays
- Sense of Story
- Predictable stories/activities with repeated lines.
- Familiar Stories and Tales
- Targeted phonemes such as
- Additional ideas
- Story Map from Scholastic (http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=2994)
- Printable Booklets for emergent readers (www.hubbardscupboard.org/printable_booklets.html#WordFamilyBooklets)
- The following excellent web sites provide many additional literacy activities:
- Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening (pals) site has many suggested activities for phonological awareness and literacy skills.
- Preschool Library Story Place (www.storyplace.org/preschool/other.asp)
- Reading Workshop contains wonderful materials created by elementary school teacher at Palma Sola Elemenatry School (www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/rcompindex.htm)
- Literacy Center Education Network's pre and early reading curriculum (www.literacycenter.net/lessonview_en.htm) provides over a million free lessons following a "Modified Montessori approach to teaching reading." The Parent and Teacher section is divided into subject areas where lessons can be chosen for specific purposes.
- StarFall (http://starfall.com) was created "to meet the needs of the emergent reader by incorporating rhyming games and high-interest books that teach phonemic awareness (sounds in words), phonics, decoding skills, and comprehension." The materials are designed for first grade, but are also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade. Features include interactive books, activities, movies, and worksheets.
- Webbing Into Literacy (http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/wil/home.html) packed with colorful materials and ideas originally designed for rural Head Start teachers features a developmentally appropriate approach to literacy instruction. Contains materials and lesson plans to accompany favorite children's books and Alphabet Books - (http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/wil/home.html#Alphabet)
- SLPs, Literacy, and Inclusion by Wyoma Clouss, CCC-SLP
Aphasia/TBI
- Aphasia Assessment Materials
- Scanning/Visual Field/Print Size/Attention Screening Task by
Kathryn L. Garrett Joanne P. Lasker (http://aac.unl.edu/screen/wordscan.pdf)
- The Multimodal Communication Screening Task for Persons with Aphasia (MCST-A) Picture Stimulus Book by A Kathryn L. Garrett, Ph.D., CCC-SLP Joanne Lasker, Ph.D., CCC-SLP (http://aac.unl.edu/screen/picture.pdf) and The Multimodal Communication Screening Task for Persons with Aphasia (MCST-A) score sheet and instructions by A Kathryn L. Garrett, Ph.D., CCC-SLP Joanne Lasker, Ph.D., CCC-SLP (http://aac.unl.edu/screen/score.pdf)
- Aphasia Needs Assessment 1997, revised 2006, by Kathryn L. Garrett & David R. Beukelman (http://aac.unl.edu/screen/aphasianeeds.pdf)
- AAC-Aphasia Categories of Communicators Checklist - adapted from Garrett, K. & Lasker, J. (http://aac.unl.edu/screen/aphasiachecklist.pdf)
- Stroke Caregivers Handbook (www.strokesafe.org/Handbook.html)
- Subscribe to Stroke Connection - FREE (www.strokeassociation.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=2541)
- Medical cards in English and Spanish (www.aphasianyc.org/anyc/Info.htm)
- Conversation boards for favorite snacks and drinks, from TinSnips (a site for people with autism) (www.tinsnips.org/Pages/makeandtake.html)
- Supporting People with Aphasia - (www.aphasia.asn.au/aphasiafriendly/macos/welcome.htm) a website designed for people with Aphasia, includes personal stories and a newsletter.
- Vocabulary activities with audio files (www.eslgold.net)
- Interesting Things for ESL Students is filled with vocabulary activities and much more (www.manythings.org)
- On-line puzzles (www.jigzone.com) - use to increase concentration abilities
- More online puzzles (http://thinks.com/daily_jigsaw_puzzle.htm)
- Weekly Reader Teens has online activities that require concentration. (www.weeklyreader.com/teens)
- Sudoko Puzzles Free Online Daily (www.sudoko.us/)
- I M Brainy (www.biausa.org/Pages/biam2003/imbrainy.html) from the Brain Injury Association has a variety of resources available for adults and children on prevention in English and Spanish.
- Summary of Intervention with the Brain injured Patient (http://web.archive.org/web/20040215134250/http://www.speechandlanguage.biz/BR_summary_of_initial+communication+intervention_strategies.htm)
- Therapy materials for Aphasia (www.aphasianyc.org/therapy.htm) in English and Spanish
- University of Queensland Aphasia groups site (www.shrs.uq.edu.au/cdaru/aphasiagroups/index.html) contains an Internet training package for people with a communication or literacy disability.(www.shrs.uq.edu.au/cdaru/aphasiagroups/internet%20manuals/Internetmanualsdownload.htm)
- News made easy (www.newsmadeeasy.com/educatorscorner.htm)
- Using the phone (www.aphasiahelp.org/information/aphasia/13_phone/index.php)
- One Hand Typing (www.aboutonehandtyping.com)
- Links to Aphasia - a training powerpoint presentation by Capt. Maureen Will, Brookfield Police Department (www.aphasia.org/naa_materials/other_resources.html)
- Story Archives - has a full-length story, an abridged version, and the story outline with several activities based on the story. (www.literacynet.org/cnnsf/archives.html)
- Word finding/Memory materials
- Sing-Along Songs (http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/music.htm) midis and lyrics includes a Name that tune activities (http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/nametune3.htm).
- Popular Songs (www.contemplator.com/america/) and Tunes in American History (www.contemplator.com/tunebook/america.htm)
- Smartini Memory Game (http://pbskids.org/lions/printables/games/memory_arty.html)
- Flibriks Memory game (http://funschool.kaboose.com/fun-blaster/christmas/games/game_santa_flibriks.html)
- Visual Memory from Toy Theater (www.toytheater.com/visual-memory.php)
- Memory Gym - free online memory training (www.memorise.org/)
- Jacquie Lawson's cards - use the free examples for practice in following directions. (www.jacquielawson.com)
- Prognosticate - the news predicting game "When the news story stops, you have to deduce the next word and type it in. . . . works best for you if read online editions of cnn.com or bbc.com. It then becomes a memory recall session as well as try to figure the word that comes next." (www.prognosticate.com/)
- Don't Forget - Memory Activity (www.exploratorium.edu/memory/dont_forget).
- Boy the Bear's Age Gauge (www.frontiernet.net/~cdm/age1.html) - group activity idea.
- Stuck for
Words - word retrieval activities
(members.tripod.com/~Caroline_Bowen/wordretrieval.html). Also available in
PDF file format.
- High motivation listening games by Chris Elvin (http://www.eflclub.com/elvin/publications/highmotivationlistening.html)
- Word Finding Difficulties Site
(www.wordfinding.com) created by Dr. Diane German, a professor in the Special
Education Department at National-Louis University, Chicago,.provide s
"information about Word Finding for professionals, parents, and learners
with word finding difficulties. Topics in this web site include definition,
characteristics, assessment, intervention, and available course work."
- Memory game of signs (www.allstarpuzzles.com/memory/00007E.html)
- Additional
memory exercise ideas
(www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster2/therapy/memory.html)
- Suggestions from ABINews2U (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ABINews2U), a yahoo group for people with TBI
- Livewire puzzles (www.puzzles.ca/freefun.html)
- Brain Spot created as part of a US Dept. of Education project "Service and Support for Persons with Brain Injury." Designed for persons beginning to learn the internet. Has games that help improve brain skills. (www.unc.edu/depts/recreate/spot/)
- Cricklers a new type of word puzzle that adapts - they become easier or harder depending on the skill of the solver. (crickler.com)
- Designs For Strong Minds analogies (www.designsforstrongminds.com/game.htm)
- All Mixed Up : free online games - (www.allmixedup.com/)
- Brain Teasers (www.eduplace.com/math/brain/index.html)
- BrainBashers Puzzles and Brain Teasers - a collection of brain teasers, puzzles, riddles, games and optical illusions. (www.brainbashers.com)
- Crazy Libs brief stories with your words strategically inserted to produce whacky results. (rinkworks.com/crazylibs)
- Electronic Arts -
has some free online games which change from time-to-time (www.ea.com/home/home.jsp)
- Fun Brain -
K-12 educational online games by subject (www.funbrain.com/) including Spelling (www.funbrain.com/spell/index.html)
- MSN Games by Zone.com (zone.msn.com/en/root/freeonline.htm)
- Mysteries.com - Mystery of the Day (http://web.archive.org/web/20050207051853/http://www.mysteries.com/motd/index.html)
- Mystery Net.com - online mysteries, mystery games, mystery books (www.mysterynet.com/)
- Penny Press Puzzles -
Crossword of the Day (www.pennypress.com)
- Puzz.com - IQ Tests, Puzzles, Brain Teasers, Games, Trivia & Contests (www.puzz.com)
- Puzzle Depot - Games, Puzzles and Trivia (www.puzzledepot.com)
- Qkiz.com - play solitaire game of Mahjong tiles, cartoon tiles match game (www.qkiz.com)
- SET Game - online versions of Set and Quiddler mathematical and word card games. Features a daily puzzle and contest. (setgame.com)
- Tangram - ancient Chinese moving piece puzzle, consisting of 7 geometric shapes. (www.tangrams.ca)
- Thinks.com - collection of games, puzzles and recreations. (thinks.com)
- Thinks.com - daily Codebreaker Crossword (thinks.com/daily_codebreaker.htm)
- Yahoo! Games (games.yahoo.com)
- Remember with me kit - sample page (www.rememberwithmekit.com/samples.php)
Augmented/Alternative Communication
Dysphagia and other swallowing disorders
Motor Speech Disorders
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Hearing disorders
- Discrimination Cards from the Pediatric Cochlear Implant Program (http://www.sickkids.ca/cochlearimplant/section.asp?s=For+Therapists&sID=6702&ss=Discrimination+cards&ssID=6768)
- Wise Ears - a national campaign to prevent noise-induced hearing loss from NIDCD (www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/wise/index.asp)
- Listen to your Buds poster and bookmarks from ASHA (www.asha.org/listentoyourbuds/")
- Neuroscience for Kids
(faculty.washington.edu/chudler/works.html) worksheets
- Speech and Auditory Training Activities (www.deafed.net/PublishedDocs/sub/980122w.htm).
- The Art of Cueing - several video clips which demonstrate how to cue example words and phrases (web7.mit.edu/CS/Art/).
- Fingerspelling (web.archive.org/web/20041130085404/http://where.com/scott.net/asl/)
- Funbrain
(www.funbrain.com) - sign the alphabet
- ASL Browser
(commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm)
- The Described and Captioned Media Program (CMP) - a free-loan, open-captioned media collection of over 4,000 titles (videos, including some that are streamed and available online, CD-ROM, and DVD) available to hearing impaired, their parents, or those who work with them) are video streamed lessons in ASL and speech reading. (www.dcmp.org)
- Speech Reading In Context: A Guide for Practice in Everyday Settings (clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/products/Sharing-Ideas/speech/index.html) from Gallaudet University Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center, contains lesson plans and activities.
- Game Cards (www.senteacher.org/Worksheet/11/Games.xhtml) for lipreading activitiy from SEN Teacher free printables (www.senteacher.org/Print/)
- Scott Bradley's hearing loss simulator (http://facstaff.uww.edu/bradleys/radio/hlsimulation/)
- Loudness Scale to help determine the approximate decibel levels of sounds (www.entnet.org/healthinfo/hearing/Loudness-Scale.cfm)
- Notetaker Guidelines for students who take notes for students with hearing impairments, by Nancy Henderson
Voice/VPI materials
- Lippy the Lion - a traveling educational tool (www.widesmiles.org/lippy/)
- The Story of Thumper, the
Cleft-affected Bunny (www.widesmiles.org/Kids_Lit/thumper/) by Joanne Green
- Anthony Visits His Cleft Palate Team (www.widesmiles.org/Kids_Lit/anthonytm/) by Joanne Green
- Welcome to our clinic - an activity and coloring book to help your child prepare for their visit to the Velopharyngeal Dysfunction Clinic at Cincinnati Children's (http://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/NR/rdonlyres/7B47C81C-BF2B-4504-A948-487956873EF2/0/activitybook.pdf)
- Voice
therapy techniques,
(web.archive.org/web/20031204003041/http://www.unc.edu/~chooper/classes/voice/webtherapy/index.html) a collection by
Cecilia Hooper
- John
Riski's Assessing VPI
(www.choa.org/default.aspx?id=764)
- Speech therapy to
improve hypernasality (www.choa.org/default.aspx?id=761) by John Riski
- Resources for Children and Adolescents about
smoking (www.cdc.gov/tobacco/children.htm).
- Vocal Abuse Checklist for Children and Ideas to eliminate vocal abuse (speech.jppss.k12.la.us/ Vocal%20Abuse%20Checklist%20For%20Children.doc)
- The Voice Academy (www.uiowa.edu/~shcvoice/index.html) presents strategies relating to vocal health for teachers and contains a fully-scripted, 50 minute in-service curriculum (www.uiowa.edu/~shcvoice/slp.html) that SLPs can use to introduce teachers to this resource.
- Vocal Warm-ups and Cool-downs (www.gbmc.org/voice/vocalwarmups.cfm)
- The NCVS Guide to Vocology (www.ncvs.org/ncvs/library/pubs/vocologyguide.pdf) by Katherine Verdolini, PhD, CCC-SLP, Kate DeVore, MA, CCC-SLP, Scott McCoy, DMA, and Julie Ostrem, BS, MBA, "was created as a comprehensive overview of the many and diverse approaches to voice management. Following a brief overview, Part I describes common conditions affecting voice, while Part II presents a wide variety of voice therapy programs. Reference lists are also provided. . . ." (in PDF format).
- Transsexual Voice for the Tone Deaf - offers many ideas and tips
Fluency/Stuttering
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The following section is designed to provide materials, readings, and approaches to assessment and therapy for speech-language pathologists who work with people who stutter. It is not to be considered a "recipe book" to stuttering therapy, but contains resources which may be adaptable to specific clients. It is more extensive than other therapy sections because I have been building this information personally for more than ten years. Previously it was part of the Stuttering Home Page (www.stutteringhomepage.com), but it was too difficult to continue to maintain the information in two different places so it has been integrated here. If others have materials they would like to share, please contact Judy Kuster
- Prevention Materials
- Diagnostic materials
- Online stop watch (www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/stopwatch)
- Age calculator (http://ags.pearsonassessments.com/calc/calc.asp) from AGS may be helpful in diagnostic evaluation scoring.
- Intake, interview, and case history forms and information
(www.unl.edu/fluency/pdfs/parents.pdf)
Stressor Inventory Handout PDF format from The Stuttering Center of Western Pennsylvania (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad8/papers/coleman8/stressorinventory.pdf)
Spanish
Phrasing for SLPS
(www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/TherapyWWW/spanish.html) - the 20 page
section on stuttering from a book by Dorothy Miranda Esckelson and Adulfa
Aguirre Morales, includes the yes/no questions for parents and
Information/Suggestions to the Parents and Form letters.
Parent Interview (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/gjohnson/parentinterview.html) - suggestions from Gerald Johnson
Teacher Checklist for Fluency (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/TherapyWWW/checklist.html) - designed by Nina Reardon to facilitate information sharing and consultation with the teacher of a child who stutters.
Starbuck Fluency Clinic - Case History Information Form - Adolescent/Adult Program (http://web.archive.org/web/20000607201450/http://www.geneseo.edu/~cds/CDS_Forms/Stbk_Adult_Case_Hx.pdf)
Risk Factors Chart (www.stutteringhelp.org/Default.aspx?tabid=111)
Las Cruces Public Schools Teacher's Rating Scale - Fluency evaluation (http://lcps.k12.nm.us/Departments/SPED/Spedform/static/PDF/SLPF_TeacherRatingScale_Fluency.pdf)
Checklist for Preschool Teachers (www.latrobe.edu.au/hcs/projects/preschoolstuttering/files/checklist.pdf)
Suggestions to include in diagnostic format
Sampling speech behaviors
- Disfluency Count Sheet PDF format from The Stuttering Center of Western Pennsylvania (PDF) (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad8/papers/coleman8/countsheet.pdf)
- Sampling Speech Behaviors (www.fluencyfriday.org/realtimeanalysis.pdf) - includes Normative data by Hugo Gregory, Bloom/Cooperman's counting disfluencies Real time analysis, 300 syllable analysis form, and Timed sample form from Fluency Friday Plus - a website by Diane Games
- online stopwatch (www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/stopwatch/)
Tests of attitude
Additional diagnostic tools
Materials designed to educate children and adults about stuttering and how to recognize fluency disorders
- Just for
Kids (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/kids/kids.html) - section of
Stuttering Home Page for children
- FAQs for Kids (http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/kids/kidfaq.html) - Frequently Asked Questions from Kids Who Stutter answered in language they can understand.
- Some Things Everyone Should Know About Stuttering by Diane Games (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad8/papers/ppt/ppt8.html#games)
- Stuttering: Fact or Fiction by Irv Wollman and Katrina Zeit (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad8/papers/ppt/ppt8.html#wollman)
- My Story: A PowerPoint Teaching Tool by Diane Games (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad9/papers/therapy9/games9.html)
- Stuttering Jeopardy by Judy Kuster (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad9/papers/therapy9/kuster92.html)
- You Are In Control, (www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/TherapyWWW/youareincontrol.pdf) a game for children who stutter, their families, and friends. This activity first appeared in STAFF, February 1992 (a newsletter from Aaron's Associates). It is reprinted here for non-commercial use only with the permission of the editor, Janice Westbrook. You must have Adobe's Free Acrobat Reader. You can download it at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html. You will have to do some cutting and pasting to make the game board.
- Stuttering: A Webquest (http://web.archive.org/web/20010515211829/http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/DIS/wquest/maryann/stuttering.htm) by Mary Ann Filipkowski provides thirteen questions as well as websites for exploring the answers. The student is provided with a step-by-step process and challenged to write a five paragraph paper on stuttering with at least 25 sentences.
- Disfluency: A WebQuest for Grades 4-6 by Carolyn Wuertz. (http://usiweb.usi.edu/students/2003/v_w_x_y_z/wuertz_c/Introduction.html)
- Cat Got Your Tongue? , (http://web.archive.org/web/20030830021021/http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/webchildrensa.html) an Internet WebQuest on Children Who Stutter created by Savita Bissoondatt, Charles W. Flannigan High School with projects to help individual or groups of high school students learn about stuttering.
- Stuttering (http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/emotion/stuttering.html) from KidsHealth.
- Video
- YouTube and Google videos
- Stammering is no joke by Les Geddes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-epHaW8nTJQ)
- Transcending Stuttering by Phil Schneider (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3145208862063452157&q=stuttering&hl=en)
- Taro Alexander from Transcending Stuttering Personal Journey (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5060503130305482689&q=stuttering&hl=en)
- Frankie Jones from Transcending Stuttering (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7213687540474522967&q=stuttering&hl=en)
- Messages About Self-Help From Around The World - 20 3-minute videos of stuttering in 16 different languages (http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad10/papers/videos10/videos10.html)
- Putting Cluttering on the World Map contains an audio example of cluttering (http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad10/papers/myers10.html)
- Stuttering: For Kids, By Kids - (www.stutteringhelp.org/default.aspx?tabindex=486&tabid=496) a video produced by the Stuttering Foundation of America is freely available to view online.
- Stuttering: Straight Talk for Teens (SFA video) (http://www.stutteringhelp.org/Default.aspx?tabid=491)
- Audio
Educating About The Normal Speaking Process
