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/s/-blends $21.95 Check out additional resources in the store ! Automatic discounts of 20-30% apply when buying 2 or more sets. Need to teach a child to make S-Blends? 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: /s/-Blends Card Sets and Resources This comprehensive eResource 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 a...

/s/ $15.95 Check out additional resources in the store ! Automatic discounts of 20-30% apply when buying 2 or more sets. Need to teach a child to make an S? 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: /s/ Card Sets and Resources This comprehensive eResource 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 c...

The Testy Shop is now open. I'm selling comprehensive, downloadable speech therapy kits. The first two kits available are /s/ Card Sets and Resources and /s/-Blends Card Sets and Resources . If you buy both you'll get an automatic 20% discount. The kits include expanded card sets with additional features (compared to the free sets ) and have vowel worksheets, pivot phrase worksheets, illustrated minimal pairs, three levels of homework sheets, printable worksheets and activities and more. Please check out the store and let me know what you think!

Reading Raven: A Mini-Review I purchased Reading Raven for my children and we all love it. It is reasonably priced at $3.99. This app does a great job at teaching early reading and writing from a phonics perspective. The game is divided into five lessons each with its own theme. The games within each lesson are similar, but changing the theme freshens them up considerably as the child levels up. The mini-games within each lesson teach letter-sound correspondences, sight words, sounding out words, spelling, and even writing. Sections of the game allow children to record their own voice reading and then compare the word they read to the one the narrator reads to see if they get it right. Other sections help them trace individual letters in a word and then the program shows them the completed word in their own handwriting. Every few mini-games they earn a sticker that they use to decorate Reading Raven's treehouse and my son enjoys that as well. I feel it was a $3.99 very wel...

Our family will be going on our first real vacation later this year. We travel regularly to visit family, but that isn't quite the same thing as a vacation to an exotic locale. This vacation will be particularly special because it will involve extended family. My parents are going, several aunts are going, and a good family friend is going as well. I'm am looking forward to it more than I can say given that I will be traveling with a three and (by then) five year old. Now, to take this trip, it is advised that we have passports. It is not, strictly speaking, necessary - but it is advised. I'd rather not have to drag several personal documents for four different people along, so we decided to go with the passport option. As it turns out, the application is the least of the hassle. You have to locate and gather birth certificates, copies of the fronts and backs of drivers licences, marriage licences, and more. You have to drag all of those things to a place that proce...

SLP Resource of the Week Organizing materials is a huge pain. I think Jackie at Teal and Lime has come up with a perfect, compact way of organizing card decks . She uses index card holders in a tray. Click on the link and take a look. It is adorable. If you're using full-size, commercial decks, you'd fit one deck per index card holder. If you're using my free decks , you could probably fit all the decks that go with a particular phoneme in a single index card container. I would probably take the step of labeling the top of each index card holder with the phoneme of the cards inside so I could grab the one I want in an instant. Ava this Week I believe I've already mentioned pneumonia 2.0 . What impressed me most about my little girl this week is how she just doesn't let much get her down. Even through five straight days of 102.5ish fever she still woke up at her usual time, played (in a low-key manner), and was relatively cheerful. She was handling it so we...

As you may remember, Michael walked around for a couple of weeks with a cough. He never ran a fever or had a runny nose, so I figured he has some sort of mild cold that would work itself out. Eventually it got to the point that he couldn't play because every time he tried to run he'd start coughing uncontrollably. After two weeks of a cough I decided a visit to the pediatrician was in order. Diagnosis: Walking Pneumonia. A week or two later (last Friday), Ava started running a 102 something fever. Her appetite was non-existent and she was a little more tired than usual, but there were no other obvious signs of illness. Michael hadn't been showing symptoms for well over a week, so I thought it was more likely that Ava had picked something up at school than that she'd come down with his pneumonia. I decided to wait it out assuming it was a cold or virus. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday passed in a very similar manner with fever, fatigue, and lack of appetite. Monday...

Heather's Speech Therapy has an amazing list of free speech and language worksheets to download. She has syllable wheels, most consonants in multiple positions in words and phrases, grammar and vocabulary worksheets, and some reward charts. All worksheets include color pictures of the target words. Most target words are 1-2 syllables and vary from simple syllable shapes and phonemes to complex ones. You should definitely check these out!

If you like this free card set, you might want to check out the premium speech therapy kits now available in the Testy Shop . Kits include expanded card sets, illustrated minimal pairs, homework sheets and more in a single download. Initial /j/ Card Set (/j/ is the phonetic symbol for the sound typically spelled with the letter "Y".) To download click on the image to open it full size. Then right click on the image, choose "save as" and save the page to your computer. I recommend you print on cardstock and laminate for durability. Description This articulation picture card set is designed to be more comprehensive than the typical sets you might find elsewhere. The target audience for this set is young children or children with more severe speech delays that need intensive practice with initial /j/ at a one-syllable level. No blends or vocalic /r/ sounds are included in this set. The set pairs the initial /j/ with as many different vowel sounds as possible to max...