As a busy SLP, finding time to learn about evidence-based approaches for phonological interventions can be challenging. And even if you do learn something in a webinar or read a journal article, sometimes you just need an easy-to-understand summary that you can laminate and refer to in session, or quickly pull it out of your binder to refresh your knowledge.
Questions we always ask ourselves include, "What are the therapy steps for the complexity approach again?" or "Where's a visual for choosing complex targets?" and "What are the predictions if we target a 2-element vs. 3-element cluster?"
That’s why we made our Complexity Approach Starter Kit for Speech Therapy. With over 750 five-star reviews, it’s become the most trusted resource for SLPs implementing the Complexity Approach with children with phonological impairments.
It features ready-to-print flashcards and materials for the ten best complex 2- and 3-element consonant clusters, designed to make your life easier and boost your confidence in the treatment of phonological disorders.
What's inside
These handouts aim to be simple to understand, giving you “cheat sheets” on where to start and how to move through therapy steps in your sessions — all with the end goal of promoting system-wide change in your child’s speech. Inside, you’ll find:
- A Consonant Cluster Probe (digital and print) to assess your students’ consonant cluster inventory and get baseline data before you start a block of therapy
- Evidence-based pages: complexity approach therapy steps, a speech sonority chart summary, and a target selection chart
- Flashcards and activity pages for ten complex clusters: ‘fl’, ‘fr’, ‘sl’, ‘shr’, ‘thr’, ‘scr’, ‘spr’, ‘str’, ‘spl’ and ‘skw’
- High-practice homework sheets, each with 45–90 practice trials in activities like “roll & say,” “say & color,” and “find & say”
With over 750 five-star reviews, these materials will be invaluable to your therapy. I like to laminate the handouts so I can have them with me in sessions — I keep the therapy steps with me at the table and use the target selection and speech sonority chart to share information with parents about their child's speech and the goals we have chosen for therapy. This resource also includes everything you need for successful complexity approach implementation — flashcards for ten complex clusters, high-trial homework sheets, and a consonant cluster probe to help you check whether the changes you predicted actually came through once you finish a block of therapy. Get your copy today and start to see the amazing change this approach can bring to children's speech sound systems!
Starter Kit or cluster packets - which do you need?
If you’re already using the Complexity Approach and want more variety for a full block of therapy, our 2 Element and 3 Element Complexity Approach packets give you an extensive range of therapy activities, homework sheets, and forward and backward chaining visuals for each cluster.
The Starter Kit is designed to help you understand and assess first — with a screener to check your students’ consonant clusters and evidence-based summaries to guide your target selection — before you decide which cluster packets to add.
Have you visited our Complexity Approach resources page? You’ll find a list of journal articles, podcasts and other materials you can use to get better informed!
