You never know what’s going to 💫click💫 when it comes to eliciting speech sounds.

At least our Speech Sound Handbooks GIVE YOU all those cues, tips and tricks to try 👌🏼

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Stuck teaching clusters? Try chaining! It’s visual and breaks down a complex word into smaller, easier to say chunks for the child 🙌🏽

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2025 is shaping up to be a BIG YEAR for professional development 👏🏼

So far our calendar is booked for: Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Townsville, and Canberra!

If you want to learn (differently) make sure you head your our events page to get your ticket.

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If you use INACCURATE mouth cue visuals, then how can you expect your child to say the sound ACCURATELY?! 🤯🤯🤯

Give your child or student the best chance by showing them pictures that:
1. Look real and are detailed 
2. Highlight voicing and airstream
3. Represent YOUR students mouths

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It’s my 40th birthday today 🎈thank you mum for having the girls so I could go on an adventure to my 53rd new country (in Bali, Indonesia).

I’ve loved the floating breakfast trays, rice paddies, spiritual cleanses, temples, monkeys, massages, and especially the beautiful local people here!

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Have you ever tried this for your students?

We teach clusters a LOT, and forward and backward chaining can be so helpful 💪🏼

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All the gestures 🤗🤗🤗 this feedback about our face-to-face course means so much!
MELBOURNE - sold out
PERTH - 60 tickets left
ADELAIDE & BRISBANE - 1/3 tickets sold

Is anyone on this thread coming to one of these shows??

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We explain phonological patterns so you don’t have to 👏🏼

RESOURCE: Phonological pattern handouts for parents and teachers 

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Add this tip to your toolbox 🧰 it’s really helped some of clients achieve a “crisper” /s/ in speech therapy!

FYI: this tip came from the S & Z Handbook 

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Using YouTube in SLP Therapy: Don’t make my mistakes!

Using YouTube in Speech Therapy

Oh, the disasters I’ve had while using YouTube in therapy sessions… I mean, have you seen what’s on the internet!?! Of course, you have, because you have had the same ‘oh dear, I’m gonna be fired for this’ moments as me! So I’ve compiled a list for the YouTube newbies to learn from, and the YouTube pros to commiserate with.

CREATE AN ACCOUNT & MAKE PLAYLISTS

Or make that: create two accounts… otherwise, you’ll get questions such as ‘What’s a prenatal workout?” as you are scrolling through your account. Creating a YouTube account is like creating a Pinterest account, where all of your favourite videos are accessible in one spot.

This can take a little bit of organisation, but once created you can add videos to certain playlists and always have them ready. I’m a huge Social Thinking® fan and have playlists titled “Flexible Thinking”, “Body in the Group”, “Thinking With Your Eyes” just to name a few so that whatever I am teaching I can access it asap! I also like creating vocabulary playlists so that we can watch a video demonstrating the meaning of a word.

WATCH THE VIDEO FIRST

Even if it’s 3min41sec and it’s a cute animated film that looks kid-friendly, you have to watch the whole video before you show it – I found one of these ‘cute’ ones recently that took a complete turn and was TOTALLY inappropriate, my mouth dropped!!! I could just imagine my kids going home and saying “Rebecca showed us this video today…”. The bottom line is you don’t want to get in trouble. WATCH.IT.FIRST. Luckily, I did watch that video first.

SUBSCRIBE TO CHANNEL & MAKE PLAYLISTS

If you find someone or something that is awesome and reliable, subscribe to their channel so that you are constantly getting access to new content without having to do the search as it comes to you! There are some lovely channels particularly for teens with ASD out there and sometimes people have already created a playlist so you can just load or watch theirs.

DON’T TURN THE SCREEN AROUND UNTIL THE VIDEO STARTS

In Australia, we have a wonderful slang term for kids who like to take a peek at what you’re doing, and we call it ‘having a sticky beak’. My kids like to have a sticky beak whenever I pull out the iPad, but there are things on YouTube that are not for their eyes.

Sometimes the clips on the right-hand side of YouTube can have similar content to what you’re searching for, and sometimes they (reaaaaaaaally) don’t. Another thing to be aware of is the comments that people can leave at the bottom of the video.

Cyberbullying and trolls are out there, so don’t expose your kids to that language or you will get questions such as “What does #@%*& mean?”. I even mute the ads and don’t turn the screen around until the video is playing, again, to be careful.

Don’t forget to MAXIMISE your screen when the video is playing and MINIMISE it when only you are looking at it. Look up viewpure.com as it lets you watch YouTube without the distractions I just mentioned.

MAKE SURE YOU SEARCH FOR THE VIDEO

I learned this after a seemingly innocent search where I asked the question “Okay, what should I type in the search if we are looking for videos about…”. You can still ask this question, and it’s a great question to ask to help your students formulate questions, but YOU do the typing, searching and scrolling, not them. The same goes for Google image search.

So Happy YouTubing and make sure you are following my Pinterest page as I’ll be adding my fave Social videos soon (and tip #3 is to subscribe to reliable people!).

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    • Awesome Curtis! Haha that could’ve saved me plenty a times. I might adjust the post and credit you. Thanks for sharing.

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  • Hi. Love reading all your posts. They are so informative. Thanks. You mention channels for teens with ASD. Just wondering if you have any particular recommendations for this? Thanks.

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