Monday, November 12, 2012

Speech Therapy Kit: Simple Vowels Card Sets and Resources

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Need to teach a child to make simple vowels?

  • Tired of buying card sets and resource books that don't work for your students?
  • Need the convenience of printing resources from your own computer?
  • Want to find a wide variety of therapy resources in a single, instantly downloadable, source?

Motor-Speech Articulation Method:
Simple Vowels Card Sets and Resources


This comprehensive therapy kit and manual has been designed from the ground up to take a motor-speech approach to speech therapy. Target words are simple in syllable shape and avoid consonant blends and vocalic /r/ sounds. They are sortable by increasing difficulty of phonemic complexity. Begin with the easiest cards and work your way up to harder ones. Every set includes phonemic variety in order to practice with different coarticulation effects and maximize carryover and generalization.

All therapy cards are illustrated in color. The resource is written to be accessible to both speech therapists and parents working with children at home. This therapy kit is ideal for targeting simple vowel productions when working with children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech, Phonological Disorders, Simple Articulation Disorders, Hearing-Impairment, and any other population that needs work to remediate speech.

Printable Resources Included:

/i/ Resources
/ɪ/ Resources
  • CV and VC Syllable Worksheets
  • 44 one-syllable picture cards sortable by vowel, difficulty, syllable shape, and phonological process
  • 8 sets of minimal pairs
  • homework sheets (Levels 1-3)
  • story booklet
  • 44 simple speech puzzles
  • CV and VC Syllable Worksheets
  • 44 one-syllable picture cards sortable by vowel, difficulty, syllable shape, and phonological process
  • 8 sets of minimal pairs
  • homework sheets (Levels 1-3)
  • story booklet
  • 12-car Speech Train

/ɛ/ Resources
/æ/ Resources
  • CV and VC Syllable Worksheets
  • 44 one-syllable picture cards sortable by vowel, difficulty, syllable shape, and phonological process
  • 8 sets of minimal pairs
  • homework sheets (Levels 1-3)
  • story booklet
  • 15 Speech Fish
  • CV and VC Syllable Worksheets
  • 44 one-syllable picture cards sortable by vowel, difficulty, syllable shape, and phonological process
  • 8 sets of minimal pairs
  • homework sheets (Levels 1-3)
  • story booklet
  • I Have, Who Has? Game (Levels 1-2)

/ʌ/ Resources
/ɑ/ Resources
  • CV and VC Syllable Worksheets
  • 44 one-syllable picture cards sortable by vowel, difficulty, syllable shape, and phonological process
  • 8 sets of minimal pairs
  • homework sheets (Levels 1-3)
  • story booklet
  • The Missing Vowel Speech Worksheets
  • CV and VC Syllable Worksheets
  • 44 one-syllable picture cards sortable by vowel, difficulty, syllable shape, and phonological process
  • 8 sets of minimal pairs
  • homework sheets (Levels 1-3)
  • story booklet
  • Race to the Top Speech Game

/ʊ/ Resources
/ɔ/ Resources
  • CV and VC Syllable Worksheets
  • 23 one-syllable picture cards sortable by vowel, difficulty, syllable shape, and phonological process
  • 8 sets of minimal pairs
  • homework sheets (Levels 1-3)
  • story booklet
  • Speech Dice Bingo
  • CV and VC Syllable Worksheets
  • 44 one-syllable picture cards sortable by vowel, difficulty, syllable shape, and phonological process
  • 8 sets of minimal pairs
  • homework sheets (Levels 1-3)
  • story booklet
  • Roll It! Speech Activity

/u/ Resources
  • CV and VC Syllable Worksheets
  • 44 one-syllable picture cards sortable by vowel, difficulty, syllable shape, and phonological process
  • 8 sets of minimal pairs
  • homework sheets (Levels 1-3)
  • story booklet
  • Move It! Speech Game

Additional Resources Included:

  • 22 Games and Activity Suggestions
  • Sample Therapy Sequence from Isolation to Generalization
  • Overview of Speech Disorders
  • Guides to Understanding Simple Vowels and Consonants
  • Key of Gestural Prompts for all Simple Vowels
  • Word Lists
  • Modifiable Therapy Variables Chart
  • Multisensory Cues Chart
  • Glossary of Terms

Sample Pages

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Friday, November 9, 2012

Move It! - A Printable Final N Speech Game

The simple vowels speech kit is done except for final edits. Expect to see it in the Testy Shop Monday morning. This kit is a monstrosity. It is 168 pages with a section for each simple vowel. You are provided with a visual / gestural cue for each vowel. There is a discussion of the characteristics of vowels and consonants and why understanding those characteristics is so important to planning speech therapy from a motor-planing perspective. The vast majority of the kit is, as usual, printable resources to use in your therapy sessions. Each vowel has syllable level worksheets, an illustrated card deck, illustrated minimal pairs, homework sheets at three difficulty levels, a story booklet, and a unique game or activity.



Here is a sneak peek of the game I made for the /u/ section modified for Final /n/.

Final /n/ Speech game: Move It!

Setup

This game comes with four mini card decks (red, blue, green, and yellow). You only need two decks at a time. Choose two decks and place one deck face down on the table. Give a game card to each child. Distribute the other deck between two children and have them place those cards face up on the game board. Tell the children the first person who helps the movers move the cards into the house wins the game. (If you need to play with four children, print an extra copy of the game board page and then use the extra two card sets with another pair of children. After both pairs of children play, have them switch cards for another game with an entirely new set of words.)

Gameplay

The first child chooses a game card from the table and says the word out loud. They then say all the words on their game board looking for the rhyming word. If they find the rhyming pair they move both cards onto the house. If not, they return the card to the table. Then the other child takes a turn. Play continues in this manner until one child moves all their cards into the house.

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

A day is not starting well when...

(a countdown from mild to !*--!*)

  1. You realize you are so far behind schedule on a project that you'll have to beg, borrow, and steal childcare every waking hour in order to catch up...
  2. The time change results in your children waking up in the 5am hour and they don't want to watch tv when you're willing to make a special exception to the "no tv before school" rule...
  3. You see the city has kindly left you this:


    at the end of your driveway and you wonder how you're going to get your rather large vehicle from your garage onto the street...
  4. A child drops an iPhone you didn't know they had into the toilet...

And how have your mornings been lately?
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