Articulation

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ASSESSMENTS & SCREENERS

Oral Motor Assessment Cards: These oral motor assessment cards will help you perform a simple evaluation with your students. There are cute visuals and simple directions so that it’s not so overwhelming. I’ve included colorful cards to print as well as a digital version so that you can take it with you on the go. DDK rates and a simple form are also included. For more information on this resource, you can VIEW HERE.

Informal Syllable Structure Screener: A simple screener that was made to accompany your speech sound assessment. This is particularly useful for those students whom you might suspect present with Childhood Apraxia of Speech, or who have very reduced speech. The screener looks at each consonant sound in the following positions: C, CV, VC, CVC and CVC. For more information on this resource, you can VIEW HERE.

Informal Articulation Screener Scenes: This is ideally set-up for digital formal (such as an iPad or computer) with bright and bold scenes that are loaded with target sounds. This resource includes BOTH a screener version (initial position only) and more in-depth (initial-medial-final position). They are also great as part of your conversational speech sample.For more information on this resource, you can VIEW HERE.

Informal Syllable Structure Screener:  This FREE VERSION is ideally set-up for digital formal (such as an iPad or computer) with bright and bold scenes that are loaded with target sounds. This resource includes scenes containing two-three-four-five syllable words, so that you can get a better understanding of your student’s ability to produce more complex words. For more information on this resource, you can VIEW HERE.

CARRYOVER FOR ARTICULATION

Articulation Carrier Phrases: A really useful tool for trying to move up from that word level and introduce some phrases. With 18 different phrases covered, the visuals can really help your students who need that extra support to say their target sounds beyond the word level. Includes cards, spinners, mats and phrase lists. Colour and black & white are added for extra flexibility. For more information on this resource, you can VIEW HERE.

Draw Me Articulation: A best selling resource in my store. These black & white worksheets specifically target the sentence and story to help your students transfer and generalize their target sounds. Word lists are included to create loaded sentences covering a range of nouns and verbs. These are really quite creative and encourage your students to draw loaded targets onto the background scenes. Quite enjoyable for the older age group. For more information on this resource, you can VIEW HERE.

Play Handouts for SLPs & Parents: These comprehensive, easy to print sheets give you TONS of ideas on how to drill, facilitate and carryover speech sounds with play-based therapy. TRY MY FREE SAMPLE. It is great for younger speech students who cannot sit down for extended lengths of time and like to move, or to help with carryover with older students.  For more information on this resource, you can VIEW HERE.

Articulation Battle for Carryover: This game is not for the faint hearted! There is quite a lot of language involved to make this game fun and is best suited for older age groups. Students pick up two cards each and verbally battle and provide reasons for why they would ‘win’ in an imaginary battle. Many times student’s forget that they are practicing their sounds! For more information on this resource, you can VIEW HERE.

Articulation Trackers: A great visual tool that allows students to track and see their progress. These black & white printables encourage students to color-code boxes with statements scubas ‘I got it right’ and ‘I forgot my sound’. You can easily adapt it for different word-phrase-sentence levels depending on your goals. These are broken into early, late and complex sounds. For more information on this resource, you can VIEW HERE.

Articulation Postcards: This resource combines crafts with cutting, glueing, sticking AND talking with over 60 postcard scenes. TRY MY FREE SAMPLE. There are added mini articulation picture cards and word lists to help carryover into sentences. Students are encouraged to write a sound-loaded postcard on the back. Great for mixed groups or students with language goals. For more information on this resource, you can VIEW HERE.

WORKSHEETS & PRINTABLES

Printable Articulation Cards: These black and white therapy cards are a staple in most speech rooms. Quickly choose your word targets and print off clear and bold images. There are perfect for colouring in, using for homework and playing with other games. A great option is to print these on coloured paper or card stock and use for a variety of games such as memory and bingo. i  For more information on this resource, you can VIEW HERE.

Articulation Squares: This is great for the traveling speech pathologist, because the size is so compact! With both color and black & white options, you can have a lot of flexibility getting drills with these squares. Fitting x12 targets to a page, they feature words in initial-medial-final-mixed position. Great for hands-on therapy! They come in early and late sound – or grab the money saving bundle.  For more information on this resource, you can VIEW HERE.

Articulation Letter Buds: These Letter Buds are a fun, print-and-go worksheet that are also great for the sound-letter connection. With both color and black & white options, you can have a lot of flexibility getting drills with these pages. Fitting lots of targets to a page, they feature words in initial-medial-final-mixed position. Great for hands-on therapy! They come in early and late sound – or grab the money saving bundle. For more information on this resource, you can VIEW HERE.

Articulation in Isolation Worksheets: Sometimes is students confined it really difficult to make their speech sounds accurately. TRY MY FREE SAMPLE.These sheets were designed with flexibility in mind – simply write in or add syllables or words to send for home practice. Fitting two sheets to a page, they are plenty big to get a lot of practice in. They are split up by early and late sounds, or you can get the money-saving bundle. For more information on this resource, you can VIEW HERE.

Articulation Threading Mouths: This is hands-on therapy at its best! Articulation Threading Mouths (while they can be used for threading) are a great way to add interactive therapy into your room. They are split up by early and late sounds, or you can get the money-saving bundle. There are also bright colorful mouths for laminating and black & white pages to send for homework. For more information on this resource, you can VIEW HERE.

Articulation Brick Builders: This is definitely for those children who like building and blocks! These simple black & white pages are easy to print come with colorful feedback cards to encourage your students to reflect on their productions. With pages containing a mixture of initial-medial-final words, they can be easily adapted for your students.  To keep this hands-on, use blocks as reinforcers to place on the page. For more information on this resource, you can VIEW HERE.

Articulation Treasures: A fun pirate and treasure-map themed printable for speech therapy. These simple black & white pages are easy to print come with colorful feedback cards to encourage your students to reflect on their productions. With pages containing a mixture of initial-medial-final words, they can be easily adapted for your students. For more information on this resource, you can VIEW HERE.

Articulation Surfing: If you are doing a summer theme or have students who love the beach and water, these fun printable are a nice addition to your speech worksheet collection. These simple black & white pages are easy to print come with colorful feedback cards to encourage your students to reflect on their productions. With pages containing a mixture of initial-medial-final words, they can be easily adapted for your students.  For more information on this resource, you can VIEW HERE.

Articulation Message in a Bottle: This is a unique ‘routine’ that you can add into your speech room that can benefit most students, especially those with articulation goals. Students are encouraged cowrite secret messages in a bottle with target sounds for other children to open, read and answer. It’s a fun way to get rid of the toy box. The is a blog post that you can read to see how it can work in your classroom. For more information on this resource, you can VIEW HERE.

Articulation Scrapbooks: Scrapbooks are such a fun way to keep track of all your hard speech work over the months of therapy. These customizable pages are flexible and work with any sound that you are targeting with your child. They encourage a lot of craft and interaction and even include mini articulation cards. They currently come in themes such as Fall & Halloween, Spring & Easter and Summer. For more information on this resource, you can VIEW HERE.

Articulation Bounce Boards: A fun series of board games that are especially easy to upload to iPad and play. Their of the game is to make it all the way down the bottom by landing on tiles that have an arrow on them. If you don’t land on one, you keep bouncing back and forth until you do.  TRY MY FREE SAMPLE. With pages containing a mixture of initial-medial-final words, they can be easily adapted for your students. There is a free sample and then packets targeting different groups of sounds. For more information on this resource, you can VIEW HERE.

GENERAL ARTICULATION RESOURCES

Animal Speech Sound Prompts: An engaging way to facilitate and stimulate sounds using animals. Each animal represents as sound (e.g. ‘s’ for snake, ‘g’ for gorilla) and provide cues and prompts nohow to elicit the sounds. They are intended for preschoolers and can complement classroom early literacy centers. Cards for stimulability testing are also included. Stick them on craft sticks to hold them up. For more information on this resource, you can VIEW HERE.

Speech Reinforcer Mats: A very simple set of colorful reinforcer mats that can be used and adapted for most speech therapy goals. You can set the goal based on your student’s needs, and then they can decorate or add to the mats as part of therapy. I love using mini erasers and trinkets, pom poms and even dry erase markers on these, however you can use anything that you have available in your therapy room. For more information on this resource, you can VIEW HERE.

Speech Therapy Reward Charts: A different way to reinforce and reward your students. This can be very creative and a chart that you use throughout therapy to motivate and reward your students. Simply allow them to draw, add stickers or stamps and color in the page based on them achieving the goals for the session. Great to stick in a speech scrapbook. For more information on this resource, you can VIEW HERE.

Speech Sound Reminders for Parents FREE: A great way to write practice ideas and facilitation tips to send home to parents. For more information on this resource, you can VIEW HERE.

Speech Data Collection: A monthly data collection form that SLPs should encourage their parents to use. For more information on this resource, you can VIEW HERE.

Oromotor Screener FREE: Find a simple one page oromotor checklist covering the movement of the lips, tongue, jaw and more complex oromotor movements.  Click here.