Learn more about your child's strengths and areas for improvement. Communicate with your child's teachers and therapists. The more you know, the better you can help your child and yourself.
Read, Read, and Read some more! Take time each day to read with your child. Engage in discussions about what you are reading. You can ask Who, What, When, Where, and Why questions to start your discussions.
Give your child your full attention when possible. Pause and look at them when you are communicating with one another.
Don't expect perfection. Celebrate your child and the skills being taught and acquired!
Have fun with some suggested links below:
Read, Read, and Read some more! Take time each day to read with your child. Engage in discussions about what you are reading. You can ask Who, What, When, Where, and Why questions to start your discussions.
Give your child your full attention when possible. Pause and look at them when you are communicating with one another.
Don't expect perfection. Celebrate your child and the skills being taught and acquired!
Have fun with some suggested links below:
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ARTICULATION:
Is your child producing their new sound? Click here for some online activities. Or here for some fun songs. FLUENCY:
Is your child learning new Fluency techniques? Click here for some supporting information to practice at home. |
MULTILINGUALISM:
Is your child learning more than one language? That's great!! Click here for some more information. |
**** COVID 19 School Closure Resources for Families of Children with Speech-Language Impairment (SLI) ****
Due to school closures for Coronavirus (COVID-19). Below are resources for families of students with Speech- Language Impairments organized by subcategories of service types.
Khan Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org Create a free account to access an entire day of academic activities for Preschool- High School
Augmentative and Alternative Communication
AAC Calendar of Activities
Expressive Language
List of Idioms
Do2Learn, Various Activities with a focus on Autism
Vooks is an online animated stories site with lesson plans available to read books and answer questions: Vooks is a great resource to use in the home with your children. Vooks is a streaming library of ad-free, kid-safe animated read-aloud storybooks, trusted by teachers and enjoyed by millions of children around the world every week. It is an entire library of storybooks, brought to life, to help encourage the love of reading. You can sign up for Vooks and use the take-home resources to help keep your children reading 20 minutes a day during these extraordinary times.
Sign Up Link: (educators gets Vooks free for one year when you put in your school email address)
Vocabulary Pinball
Science Vocab and other subjects w/worksheets
Tracy Boyd’s online language games - Class Page
Scholastic
Free parent Handouts for vocabulary, book/app suggestions and language strategies
Receptive Language
Read Works, Short Stories with Comprehension Questions
Newsela.com , News Articles
Vocabulary.com , Vocabulary Games
Printable cloze Technique activities, incorporating music; SLP in the Middle
Enchanted Learning, great for following directions and sequencing
Tracy Boyd’s online language games
Highlights for Kids
Basic Concepts Scavenger Hunt
Vocabulary by Category
Sign Language
Signing Savvy
ASL Pro
Phonics
Cool Kindergarden.com
Articulation, Home SpeechHome - specific sounds in words, sentences, and paragraphs
Mommyspeechtherapy.com - lots of basic resources
Tracy Boyd’s online articulation games (matching, concentration)
Multisyllabic Word Book Printable Speech Freebies
Articulation
Carl’s Corner- reading specialist/teacher created free resources- scroll down to Website Directory (Blends Bonanza has word lists/activities for many blends)
Breanna’s Speech Shop Articulation Freebie
Flashlight Articulation Game Speech Freebie
Social Skills
Videolearningsquad.com
Model Me Going Places 2- free social stories app
Ms. Lane’s SLP materials
Short wordless videos
Free use of Social Express Interactive Software through April 15th
Tons of resources and visual supports
Fluency
The Stuttering Foundation
Due to school closures for Coronavirus (COVID-19). Below are resources for families of students with Speech- Language Impairments organized by subcategories of service types.
Khan Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org Create a free account to access an entire day of academic activities for Preschool- High School
Augmentative and Alternative Communication
AAC Calendar of Activities
Expressive Language
List of Idioms
Do2Learn, Various Activities with a focus on Autism
Vooks is an online animated stories site with lesson plans available to read books and answer questions: Vooks is a great resource to use in the home with your children. Vooks is a streaming library of ad-free, kid-safe animated read-aloud storybooks, trusted by teachers and enjoyed by millions of children around the world every week. It is an entire library of storybooks, brought to life, to help encourage the love of reading. You can sign up for Vooks and use the take-home resources to help keep your children reading 20 minutes a day during these extraordinary times.
Sign Up Link: (educators gets Vooks free for one year when you put in your school email address)
Vocabulary Pinball
Science Vocab and other subjects w/worksheets
Tracy Boyd’s online language games - Class Page
Scholastic
Free parent Handouts for vocabulary, book/app suggestions and language strategies
Receptive Language
Read Works, Short Stories with Comprehension Questions
Newsela.com , News Articles
Vocabulary.com , Vocabulary Games
Printable cloze Technique activities, incorporating music; SLP in the Middle
Enchanted Learning, great for following directions and sequencing
Tracy Boyd’s online language games
Highlights for Kids
Basic Concepts Scavenger Hunt
Vocabulary by Category
Sign Language
Signing Savvy
ASL Pro
Phonics
Cool Kindergarden.com
Articulation, Home SpeechHome - specific sounds in words, sentences, and paragraphs
Mommyspeechtherapy.com - lots of basic resources
Tracy Boyd’s online articulation games (matching, concentration)
Multisyllabic Word Book Printable Speech Freebies
Articulation
Carl’s Corner- reading specialist/teacher created free resources- scroll down to Website Directory (Blends Bonanza has word lists/activities for many blends)
Breanna’s Speech Shop Articulation Freebie
Flashlight Articulation Game Speech Freebie
Social Skills
Videolearningsquad.com
Model Me Going Places 2- free social stories app
Ms. Lane’s SLP materials
Short wordless videos
Free use of Social Express Interactive Software through April 15th
Tons of resources and visual supports
Fluency
The Stuttering Foundation
