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I was playing around with the Race to the Top game concept for the new /k/ therapy kit and came up with a picture version of the game. The /k/ therapy kit contains a version of this game that incorporates initial, medial, and final /k/ words. Here is a free downloadable version of the Race to the Top game that incorporates both initial and final /d/ words. (Click to open image to full-size then right-click to save to your computer. Then print using a program of your choice.) If you're playing with one child, use tokens or chips to cover words from the bottom up on the towers (as that tower's number is rolled on the die) until one tower reaches the top. Then the child can color that flag. Play again to see if they can color a different flag. When you run out of time, send it home so they can play at home until all the flags have been colored. If you're playing with a group, give each child a small game piece to put at the bottom of the tower of their choice. They ta...

Rebecca at Adventures in Speech Pathology designed simple reminder strips to communicate with classroom teachers and parents . Simply download the free template and print the strips in advance. Then, at the end of each session fill out the strips with the students and send them back to the classroom. Tell the child to either give the strip to their teacher or to put it in their cubby/school bag. Or, give the child two strips and have them do both. It is a great way to communicate what you're working on to other adults in the child's life and perhaps recruit some helpers for additional speech practice.

/k/ $15.95 Check out additional kits in the store ! Automatic discounts of 20-30% apply when buying 2 or more kits. Need to teach a child to make a K? 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: /k/ 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 colo...

I've finished the /k/ Card Sets and Resources therapy kit and it will go up for sale in the Testy Shop tomorrow. I am particularly pleased with how this set turned out and I got a chance to see it all printed out as you saw in yesterday's post . I am now in possession of a box of high-quality, pre-printed /k/ therapy materials. /k/ Card Sets and Resources Printed Therapy Kit Giveaway I want to do a giveaway. At the end of the day on Friday I'll randomly choose someone who made a purchase of the /k/ Kit in the store between Monday, October 29 and Friday, November 2 to receive the printed version of the kit. Everything has been printed in full color and all of the card decks have been cut out and are ready to be used. I'll contact the winner via email to ask for their mailing address and get it in the mail right away.

As a last step in preparing to put the /k/ speech therapy kit up for sale in the Testy Shop (coming Monday), I printed the kit for editing and review. I took some pictures of the 161 illustrated therapy cards, 42 sets of minimal pairs, 12 homework sheets, 8 story booklets, and 17 other games, activities, and worksheets contained in the kit. Take a look the kinds of resources you get when you purchase one of the kits. The best part is that as you use these with students you can simply print more whenever you need them. All Materials: Detailed view of Initial /k/ Materials: Detailed view of Medial /k/ Materials: Detailed view of Final /k/ Materials: Detailed view of Mixed /k/ Materials:

SLP Resource of the Week Mel at Classroom Freebies made a free downloadable Snail or Slug game that would be perfect for working on production of /sl/ and /sn/ blends, auditory discrimination, and simple sorting skills. Ava/Michael Weekly Contrast Potential spoilers ahead - do not read if you want to watch the new Tinkerbell movie without any hints of what the movie contains. We watched the new Tinkerbell movie last night. It was a great movie. We all enjoyed it and the children are itching to watch it again today. I enjoyed watching the wonder, joy, and laughter on their faces as much as I enjoyed watching the movie. There were some sections of the movie that were emotionally intense though. I found it interesting that the children responded entirely differently to them. Michael was in tears when Tinkerbell and Periwinkle were forced to separate against their will and the audience was led to believe they would never see each other again. Ava was relatively calm during that...

Here's another perfect blend of phonics and speech that is a great activity for working on final consonants and word families at the same time. ( See the last one here. ) This will only take you 5-10 minutes to make from materials you'll already have around. Gather 1 piece of cardstock or construction paper 1 piece of regular copy/printer paper marker or sharpie stapler craft tape (optional) Assemble Quarter-fold the cardstock and paper and cut into fourths. Decide if you want your mini flipbook to have six or eight pages. If you want six pages, put three pieces of paper on top of one piece of cardstock. If you want eight pages, put four pieces of paper on top of one piece of cardstock. Then fold that pile in half and put three staples in the fold line to hold it together. If you like, put a piece of craft tape over the outer fold to cover the staples and make your mini flipbook look "bound". Next, cut the inner pages once so that the right half is 2/3 of the ...

I Have, Who Has? is a great game for speech practice. It is a quick-paced, cooperative game that keeps all students engaged, paying attention, and producing target words in a carrier phrase all at the same time. Preparation Print this I Have, Who Has? card deck. If you need another target sound, make one of your own using one of my card sets ( free , premium ) printed two sheets to a page (to make them smaller). Then cut out the pictures of your choice and glue them onto handwritten I have, who has cards made from construction paper or cardstock. How to play. Distribute the cards as evenly as possible to the students. If you're doing individual therapy, divide them between yourself and the student and your productions will serve as models. The person who has the start card begins and asks, "Who has fan?" The person with the other fan card will say, "I have fan, who has phone?" Play continues in this manner until the group reaches the end. To make thing...

This activity comes from Dustin Smith - the Teacher Tipster . All you need is a bottle of bubbles. If you want to get fancy, download the free "Self-Control Bubbles" label one teacher made and paste it onto the bottle. Self-control is a really abstract concept for young children. Research shows that self-control isn't something you're just born with. It is a skill that needs to be practiced and can be improved. Start the activity by filling your room with bubbles and encouraging your children to pop them. Let them get a little out of control. Once all the bubbles have been popped and the excitement calms down, issue a challenge. Tell them you're going to fill the room with bubbles again. This time, their job is to NOT pop the bubbles. Don't pop them if they land on your desk. Don't pop them if they land in your hair. Don't even pop them if they land on your nose. Once all the bubbles have popped, talk about how hard it was to leave those...

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. Final /ʤ/ Card Set (/ʤ/ is the phonetic symbol for the sound typically spelled with the letter "J".) 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 /ʤ/ at a one-syllable level. No blends or vocalic /r/ sounds are included in this set. The set pairs the final /ʤ/ with as many different vowel sounds as possible to maximiz...

I can't believe it has been six months since I first bought the Usborne Very First Reading Boxed Set . We bought our set used on eBay because the new price of $70 seemed a little steep for a product I was buying sight unseen. To be honest, now that we've had the set for six months, I can honestly say the price is fair. The books are well conceived, designed, and made. They are a lot of fun to read with your child. There are three built in activities at the end of each book. There are also useful supplementary materials available to download for free online. These books make teaching my child to read fun for both of us. That is a lot of value in one boxed set. We had gone through 10 of the 15 books. At book 8, the format changes from the adult and child taking turns reading pages to the child reading the entire text. Also, the books build in difficulty as you progress through the series. Michael was beginning to struggle and was having less fun. Here are some sample...

Spring and Summer are wonderful seasons during which our household is healthy the vast majority of the time. It is long enough that I actually somehow manage to forget the series of unending illnesses we fight during the fall and winter. I was taken by surprise last month when first Michael, and then Ava came down with walking pneumonia. It was September and still warm. I ended up sick enough that I required antibiotics and a heart echo to make sure the cardiac symptoms I was experiencing were related to the cold/virus/sinus infection I was having trouble fighting off and not something more serious. (Heart echo was fine.) I was hoping all of that was a fluke. We had paid our early fall dues and were going to be fine at least until winter actually hits. Then, in the middle of the week Ava woke up at 4:30 in the morning with clear symptoms of a stomach bug. She had to pick Wednesday. It's my favorite day of the week because my mom picks up the children from school and spend...

SLP Resource of the Week I saw another activity that would be great for working on sounds in isolation and as a bonus, practices letter recognition as well at the Tons of Fun blog . On her printables page you can download letter paths which are simply a grid of letters where the target letter works its way from a starting point to an ending point like a maze. You give the child a bingo marker, stamp, or stickers and they practice the target sound each time they take a step along the "path". Ava this Week Ava knows things I don't even know that she knows. She and her brother like to play together and so if he is playing a game she wants to play too. I have educational games installed on our phones and computers and Michael is playing them regularly. Ava is jumping right in and doing a pretty great job of keeping up. She's doing basic addition problems and learning her letter-sound correspondences. If she's not quite ready to go to bed at night I'll find ...