Shoutout to Nada and Louisa from the @ausorofacialmyologycollab for giving Mr Adventures in Speech Pathology some post tongue-tie release functional exercises 👅 

Really interested to hear more about Nada’s PhD research on tethered oral tissues tomorrow!!

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Are you guilty of this? Thinking that you HAVE TO START in initial position?

Well, I sometimes forget I have options too 😉 but as a “know better, do better SLP,” I happily share these so that other people can learn from my aha moments!

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My kids LOVE using these as self-reminders for what sound we’re working on 👏🏼 the elephant trunk and snake are my most used!

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If only my own children had better fine motor skills ✂️ I’d be outsourcing this task to them 🤣

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Try this 👉🏼 record a video and send it to your parents so that they can use the SAME WORDS you use in therapy!

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Have Connect Four? Try this activity to help kids “make sense” of minimal pairs!

Minimal pair cards: @bjoremspeech 

👇🏼leave a comment on what other activities you’d like ideas for.

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These posters would look FABULOUS on your walls 🌈 

It’s a digital file that can be printed as large as this! 

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Shout out to the mums, dads, nans, and pops who attend speech therapy to help their children sound clearer 👏🏼

Side note: how great is my abacus set up for minimal pairs therapy?

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Thank goodness for @beetheslp and my fave speech pathology jumper (or “sweater” for my North Americans), because it’s the only thing working for me today 🤣

Also - hard relate to the perimenopause/I don’t care trend, it’s all true!

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Do your current mouth cues look like they’re from 2003?

WHY SHOW YOUR STUDENTS MOUTHS THAT DON’T ACTUALLY PORTRAY THE SOUND?

If you want accurate mouths to help cue and teach speech sounds, we at Adventures in Speech Pathology have the ones for you 👏🏼

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Make sure you comment “mouth” and get these AMAZING mouth cue images delivered to your inbox 📥 

When I have a student with a frontal or lateral lisp, I like to have all the cues available to highlight what they’re doing now vs. what they NEED to do.

Hope you love them!!

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Our field uses a lot of big words! So, make it easier for teachers and parents to understand WHAT we’re talking about with the Phonological Patterns Handouts 💫

- For SSD resources you can trust, you know you can always rely on AISP 

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Tag an SLP who screams this loud EVERY TIME they play a pop up or jump game.

Fun fact: my colleagues literally hear me through the walls 😂

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Who said you have to work on “r” in initial position FIRST? 

By choosing where the child can say a clearer, more accurate “r”, we were able to start therapy successfully and accurately (and those other “r” positions are correcting on their own!!).

Have you ever had more success in “r” clusters?

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We usually tell parents of LATE TALKERS to pause, but I encourage parents of children with speech sound delays to pause too!!!

Yes, this child still needed a zebra cue, but often we have to build these steps to foster self-awareness so our kids can fix their speech.

🦓 Zebra cue from the Animal Speech Sound Cues - Adventures in Speech Pathology

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Shoutout to this mum who was better than me at demonstrating many of these 😂 I can’t tell you how LESS SCARY an oral motor exam is when everyone gets involved.

I’m using our @bjoremspeech Oral Motor Assessment cards.

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Want some MOTIVATION? Get a dinosaur who ONLY eats “back /k/“ sounds!!! Your preschoolers will be more engaged to fix and clarify whether they meant “tape” or “cape” if they can see the dinosaur eat the card 🦖 

#speechdevelopment #adventuresinspeechpathology #articulation #speechsounds #phonology #preschoolers #preschool
It’s REALLY time to decide if you’re joining 167 of your SLP colleagues to learn about which phonological intervention you should choose! 

I’m pumped to change the course of your career, all while instilling passion and confidence treating phonological impairments 🤗

On Thursday, June 12th, we’ll be in Adelaide, SA. For those who missed out on Melbourne, this will be your chance 👏🏼

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Charts & Checklists EVERY SLP needs to use for Articulation & Phonology

charts and checklists

“Wait a minute, I’ll just look that up and tell yooooou… sorry, I just need to find where I put it. Umm, okay, let me Google it! Alright, ‘Final consonant deletion elimination’. Come on Google – sorry, my computer’s really slow. Oh! Here it is, I’ll just click here, huh, wait for it to load… There we go! Okay, so I would expect that Emma would have stopped dropping the ends of her words off at approximately three to three-and-a-half- years of age”.

Phew! That was exhausting just typing the monologue that used to happen to me just so that I could find the chart that I needed to reference an age of acquisition. But I made some New Years iPad Resolutions to be more efficient and am just loving having my favourite charts and checklists at immediate access. You guys need to get on the same page.

Before I share what I have – let’s think storage. For free PDFs, iBooks is the way to go. If you want to draw on PDFs and highlight things, Notability has had me covered for the last 6 years.

Elimination of Phonological Processes: I use two tables for different

reasons. The Playing with Words 365 chart (featured) is fab as I like how the phonological processes are broken down into different types of processes (such as substitution, syllable structures etc.) There is an extra layer of analysis for me and it’s so quick to circle and highlight what a child is doing. For a simple parent friendly version you can’t go pass Caroline Bowen’s, particularly as it is organized by age of elimination (I just screenshot the table and upload).

Typical Speech Development: This is the #1 most used reference on my iPad and it’s by an amazing Australian researcher, Dr Sharynne McLeod. It is a compilation of data on typical speech development organised by children’s ages and referencing too many articles to count. This takes the agony out of deciding which set of speech norms you reference as they are all compiled together and references TONS much information including: DDK rates, consonant sounds acquired, consonant clusters acquired, vowels, intelligibility, phonetic inventory and present/declining phonological processes to expect and phonological awareness. Great for complex speech, I use Notability to highlight what the child CAN say or do and use it as a visual way to show parents what I would expect for their age. I love taking a screenshot of this page and then ‘redoing’ this after a stint of therapy to compare growth and progress.

Typical Speech Development

Audiogram of Familiar Sounds: There are a lot of parent friendly charts that plot the frequency, hearing level and speech sounds on one easy page. This is a must-have reference, particularly when working with younger kids who have ear infections or hearing loss – I pull up this chart and see if I can find any correlation between the type of articulation errors and their hearing loss. Use a version from the John Tracy Center or just search on Google images ‘audiogram for speech’ and take your pic.

Audiogram - speech link

Speech Sounds Development Chart: Take the time to search this Aussie website for it has some top notch charts and checklists for all different areas of communication. Their speech sounds development chart and checklists are great to use for screeners, or even guide your questions for a speech evaluation. On Notability I can check the boxes and email to myself/save as a PDF so it’s great for on the go.

Kid Sense Checklists

Articulation Visuals: These visuals from Bruce Myhre are just what I need sometimes when I’m trying to figure out how to choose the right vowel for the right consonant or understand what is going on in my student’s mouths. He currently has visuals for points of articulation for consonants, vowels and articulatory anatomy. I have shown these to my kids before to try to get them to understand where their tongue placement should be and it’s been a big hit… I secretly would love to blow these up!

Bruce Myhre visuals

Follow my Pinterest board Checklists & Charts for SLPs for the whole collection and happy downloading, uploading and getting visual with speech. Comment below if there is an amazing visual that I NEED on my iPad, because let’s face it, we all have those special finds on the internet that nobody else knows about!

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  • The articulation visual has labelled k g Ng as alveolar…… perhaps should be velar?

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    • You know Mary, I didn’t even read that! I was too busy staring at the colours and the mouth which is how I use it. Thanks for picking up, I’ll email Bruce and see if he’s aware.

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