Pictures to work on eliminating final consonant deletion

bow	boat
cow	couch
bee	beach

Try out this link to videos from the SLP at Washington preschool here in Findlay

https://www.facebook.com/pg/WAPreschoolSpeech/videos/

These are some great videos on how to use books and toys you have at home to build your child's speech and language skills.  The Speech Therapist is a colleague of mine from Washington Preschool here in Findlay. 
Just a quick note, if you watch the video on how to cue speech sounds, I cue the /s/ sound a little differently than Sarah.  She uses her hand to look like a snake as she says the /s/ and I run my index finger back and forth in front of my lips as I cue the /s/ sound.  Either way, it gives the child more information to help them learn to make the sound. 

 Here are some activities to work on several goals that may be on your child's IEP:
Naming items in categories:  Name all the pictures in each category then see if they can come up with another item that might belong in that category.
Naming the category:  Ask, "what group do all of these things belong to? " (furniture, clothing, food)
Sort into categories:  If you can print this page, cut out the pictures and hand them one by one to your child and see if they can put each back into the correct category.  All the furniture in one pile.  All the clothing in another pile and all the food in a third pile.
What doesn't belong:  Put 4 pictures together for your child.  Use 3 from one category (ie couch, chair and table) and one from a different category (ie shoe).  Ask your child, "which one doesn't belong"?  You may have to say "which one doesn't belong in the furniture group"?

 How are they the same:  Put two items together from a group (ie shoes and pants).  Ask your child, "how are these 2 alike or how are they the same"? 
How are they different: Use the same 2 items and ask, "how are they different"?
Speech sound production:  Listen for sounds produced in error and show your child how you say the word.
Understanding Functions:  Ask "what do you do with this thing"? You can also do a pointing task.  "I am thinking about something you wear on your head.  Can you find it"? 
Listening to 3 clues:  Play I spy. "I spy with my little eye something that is a type of clothing, you wear it on your foot and you put it on before you put on your shoe"

Use these pictures as you talk about the difference between /r/ and /w/. You can even point out the difference between the letters R and W.  Ask, "which one should I point to"?  Make sure you review what all the pictures are several times before you do this activity.  

Read                                                                          Weed

Rain	Wayne
Ring	Wing

Minimal pair pictures to work on the /l/ sound

Here's a way to work on the sound /l/.  It shows there is a meaning difference when you use the /w/ as opposed to using the /l/ sound.  Teach your child what all the pictures are first.  Then you can say things like, "which one do you want me to point to"? You listen to what they say and point to it.  This will show them that if they say "wick" when they mean "lick" they need to pay attention to how they say the /l/ sound.  

Wick	Lick
Wake	Lake
	Light

White

Week 3: March 30- April 3, 2020

Good morning!  As we approach week 3 here are some ways

you can incorporate speech and language into daily

routines and activities this week.  

For those students who are working on increasing

use of  words or are using devices to communicate, try this:

- In order to support functional communication, it is great to

have pictures of the things your child really likes.  You can

have pictures of favorite foods and drinks and hang them on

the fridge so that your child may request what they would like. 

Then you can have a back and forth exchange.

Whenever there is interaction between 2 people,

the desire to communicate more and in different ways increases.  

- Also take pictures of the daily routine: 

get up (picture of bed), brush teeth (picture of toothbrush),

eat breakfast (picture of child eating). 

You can make a little book of these pictures and read it together.

For children who aren’t that interested in books, looking at pictures

of themselves and things they are very familiar with may increase

the time spent together in an interaction. 

- take pictures of toys that they really like to play

with so that they can request these toys.  Try taking

pictures of parts of the toys such as parts of Mr. Potato Head

or parts of a barn set.  Keep the parts in a bag and give them two choices

- “do you want the eyes or the nose”? By pointing to a picture they are

telling you what they are thinking about and they are improving their

ability to interact which always leads to more and more attempts

to communicate.  

For those students who are working on making

speech sounds correctly, try this:  

Search around the house, inside or outside, depending on

the weather, for objects that start with the sound you are

working on. Consider taking a picture with your parent’s

phone and when you are finished go through and look at

the pictures and name them.  Remember to say your sound

correctly. Or you can carry a notebook with you.

When you find something, write the letter the object starts

with or try to write the whole word. 

Review the words later practicing your sounds.  

For those students who are working on

increasing language skills, try this: 

Search around the house, inside or outside depending

on the weather,  for items in categories.

Consider taking pictures on your phone and

reviewing them later.  

Find 3 things that are soft.

Find 3 things that are hard.

Find 3 things that are red.

Find 3 things that are big.

Find 3 things that are tiny.  

Do some comparing.  I see a rock and a mailbox post. 

How are they alike? (ie they are both hard)

How are they different? 

(a rock is small but the mailbox post is big).  

Have a terrific week!

Here is another link to videos showing how to produce speech sounds correctly for your child to practice during this time off school.
https://peachiespeechie.com/pages/peachie-speechie-videos?omnisendAttributionID=email_campaign_5e78d10f4c7fa40851040395&omnisendContactID=5e6ebb2b4572ea1a12e7650d&omnisendScopeID=5c351d9d8653ed3b5e4c317f_2_2837839961&utm_campaign=campaign%3A%20Speech%20Vids%20%285e78d10f4c7fa40851040395%29&utm_medium=email&utm_source=omnisend

Practice your speech sounds at home!

Copy and paste the links below to access videos of a speech therapist practicing different sounds.  


https://youtu.be/kTAtVWsvhNA     Use this if you are practicing /s/ or /z/. 

https://youtu.be/AZCfBnH_GGY     Use this if you are practicing /s/ blends such as "snow"

https://youtu.be/9xAoIxsyj38              Use this if you are practicing /f/.

https://youtu.be/megGv7jH0a0           Use this if you are practicing the /k/ sound

https://youtu.be/9-K3nLUThBE          Use this if you are practicing the /l/ sound



You can go to mommyspeechtherapy.com for worksheets for all the different sounds

/F/ Sound Practice Freebie!

Find this great, FREE activity on Teachers Pay Teachers at this link:
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Firefighter-Craftivity-Initial-F-Freebie-2547751

K Sound and G Sound Activities!

http://www.playingwithwords365.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Books-that-Target-the-K-G-sounds-371x525.jpg  (Link to the source material blog)

I'm sure you've heard it...we ALWAYS recommend reading to your children to help their speech and language development. Well here is a list of great books that include the /k/ and /g/ sound!

• My “K” Sound Box by Jane Belk Moncure
• Little Blue Truck Leads the Way by Alice Schertle
• The Cow That Went OINK by Bernard Most
• Kiss the Cow! by Phylis Root
• Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
• If You Give a Cat a Cupcake by Laura Numeroff
• One Duck Stuck by Phylis Root

And here are some for the /g/ sound:

• My “G” Sound Box by Jane Belk Moncure
• Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site by Sherri Duskey Rinker
• Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
• Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann
• We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
• Gooey Gummy Geese by Angela Holzer
• The Three Billy Goats Gruff by various authors (linked book by Paul Galdone)

Copy and paste these links for videos of the sounds you are learning.

Practice your speech sounds at home!

Copy and paste the links below to access videos of a speech therapist practicing different sounds.  You can go to mommyspeechtherapy.com for worksheets for all the different sounds

https://youtu.be/kTAtVWsvhNA     Use this if you are practicing /s/ or /z/. 

https://youtu.be/AZCfBnH_GGY     Use this if you are practicing /s/ blends such as "snow"

https://youtu.be/9xAoIxsyj38              Use this if you are practicing /f/.

https://youtu.be/megGv7jH0a0           Use this if you are practicing the /k/ sound

https://youtu.be/9-K3nLUThBE          Use this if you are practicing the /l/ sound

Practice Your child's Speech Sounds!

Activity: Speech Sound Bag

Sound bag:  Each week choose a new sound to focus on.  Fill a bag (like a pillow case) or a box with things that have that sound in them.  It is usually easier to start with the initial sound, since that is what kids hear first, but you can also include item that have the target sound at the middle or end.  As your child pulls things out of the bag (or box), you name them, putting a little more emphasis on the target sound.  

Here is how an interaction with the target /b/ might work.

(Child pulls out a ball)

Parent: "Ball, You found a ball." 

Parent: "You have a blue ball.  The blue ball bounces.  It is a big, blue ball.  Let's bounce the ball. Bounce, bounce, bounce."

Then you can take a turn pulling out an object.  All you are looking for is your child to make the target sound, not necessarily the whole word.  Get really excited when he or she does say the sound and even more excited if he or she says the whole word.

I would start with sounds that your child already knows and then progress to early sounds that he or she does not have yet.

Gross Motor Balloon Bop

 This cute idea from The Weekend Homemaker has been popping up all over Pinterest, and I've been wanting to try it for a while now.  I thought it would be fun to make a heart shaped "paddle" and try it out for V-day.   I just laminated a sheet of red paper, cut it into a heart shape and stapled it to a craft stick (taping over the back staples with electrical tape so no one gets poked).  It was kind of floppy though, so I also taped a wooden skewer to the back, and it worked out great! Say your speech sound each time you hit the balloon with a paddle!

Reindeer speech practice activity

Here is a cute way to work on articulation of speech sounds.  You can use a variety of items as tokens for this game such as M&Ms, pom poms, buttons, cereal pieces or coins to have your child place on a reindeer after he/she  repeats a word correctly.

Click here for the link to this activity sheet.

Here are some word lists that you can use as you play this game. 

Words beginning and ending in P	Words beginning and ending in M	Words beginning with H	Words beginning and ending in N	Words beginning with W	Words beginning and ending in B
Pat	Mope	Ham	None	Wow	Bat
Pipe	Map	Hum	Noon	Weak	Boat
Pot	Mine	Heat	Nut	Whine	Beach
Pain	Moan	Hot	Neat	Won	Boss
Pin	Mean	Hoof	Gnat	Want	Bun
Page	More	Hat	Gnome	What	Bone
Peace	Man	Heal	Next	When	Beat
Peak	Mop	Hurt	North	Why	Bet
Peck	Main	Hand	Need	Which	Ben
Pack	Mat	hut	nap	wheat	ball
Final	Final	Final	Final	Final	Final
Map	Ham	xxxxxxxxxxx	Cone	xxxxxxxxxxxxx	Cub
Nap	Hum		Keen		Sub
Keep	Come		Cane		Nub
Cop	Came		Lane		Bub
Cope	Lame		Lone		Tub
Cap	Lime		Lean		Tab
Lap	Foam		Lawn		Hub
Leap	Roam		Man		Rub
Deep	Some		Mean		Deb
weep	sam		soon		rob

C or K	G	D	T	NG	F	Y	R	L	S
Cat	Got	Don	Tom		Fit	Youth	Red	Like	Soon
Cot	Gum	Dan	Time		Fight	Yuck	Ride	Look	Some
Coat	Goat	Date	Top		Four	Yarn	Rich	Lack	Soup
Keep	Gate	Dot	Toes		Five	Yawn	Read	Load	Sap
Cap	Gun	Done	Tease		Fan	Yip	Roam	Leak	Sit
Cone	Game	Don’t	Tap		Feet	Yap	Ring	Love	Sat
Keen	Gain	Dig	Tape		Foot	Yum	Rut	Lime	Seat
Kick	Goal	Dug	Tune		Fat	Yard	Rat	Loose	Sick
Came	Gage	Dog	Team		Fin	Yes	Raid	Lose	Sun
Come	Gap	dad	toot		foam	yet	Ripe	Lame	Sud
Final	Final	Final	Final	Final	Final	Final	Final	Final	Final
Hack	Bug	Bad	Bat	Ring	Half	xxxxx	Bar	Ball	Bass
Lack	Wag	Good	Boot	Bing	Hoof		Bear	Fall	Base
Leak	Wig	Food	Bite	Sing	Calf		Boar	Tall	mess
Meek	Hug	Feed	Might	Ding	Laugh		Pair	Sell	Pass
Mack	Hog	Mud	Fight	Dong	Waif		Peer	Tell	Yes
Muck	Sag	Mad	Right	Wrong	Safe		Pour	Call	Less
Luck	Lag	Sad	Pat	Pong	Leaf		Sore	Cell	Guess
Tuck	Lug	Dad	Put	Ping	Beef		Gore	Fell	Hiss
Tack	Rug	Dude	Pot	Thing	Cuff		Gear	Mall	Kiss
sack	rag	dud	foot	wing	cough		dare	mail	bus

CH	SH	Z	J	V	TH voiceless	Th voiced
Chip	Shop	Zoom	Jam	Vote	Think	Them
Chop	Ship	Zap	June	Vedge	Thought	The
Chew	Shape	Zam	Jane	Van	Thumb	These
Chair	Shoot	Zoot	Jude	Vain	Thief	That
Chap	Sheep	Zeet	Jack	Vet	Thick	Those
Cheese	Shame	Zat	Jill	Vice	Thin	There
Cheat	Shine	Zime	John	Vum	Thump	This
Cheep	Shone	Zip	Joan	Vut		They
Chum	Chef	Zote	Jan	Vud
Choke	Shore	Zeem	Jet	Vad
Final	Final	Final	Final	Final	Final	Final
Butch	Bush	Shoes	Budge	Love	both	Bathe
Batch	Hush	Bows	Judge	Live	Bath
Match	Mash	Bees	Fudge	Five	Math
Mitch	Mush	Buzz	Mudge	Hive	Moth
Much	Dash	Fuzz	Wedge	Move	Path
Latch	Dish	Fees	Gage	Cave	Keith
Witch	Gash	Bays	Sage	Dave	Death
Watch	Gush	Buys	Cage	Dove	Sheath
Hatch	Fish	Maze	Midge	Have	Teeth
Ditch	wash	days	wage	leave	tooth

S blends						L blends	R BLENDS
Snow	Stop	School	Smile	Sleep	Sweep	Black	Try
Snack	Step	Skip	smell	Slow	Switch	Blue	Trip
Snap	Stone	Score	Smart	Slick	Swoop	Blow	Bright
Snip	Stick	Scoot			Swat	Club	Bring
Snooze	Stay	Scoop			Swan	Clue	Cry
	Store					Flag	Crib
						Fly	Dry
						glow	Drip
						plop	From
							grow

Sounds typically mastered by 3 years of age:	Sounds typically mastered by 4 years of age:	Sounds typically mastered by 5 years of age:	Sounds typically mastered by 6 years of age:	Sounds typically mastered by 7 years of age:
P  B  M   H   W   N   K   G   D   T	NG   Y   F	S   Z   SH   CH   J   L   V	R   R BLENDS	TH
SOUNDS ARE CONSISTENTLY USED AT THE ENDS OF WORDS	ALL SYLLABLES ARE PRODUCED IN WORDS SUCH AS “COMPUTER”	S BLENDS (SNAKE, STOP) L BLENDS (BLUE, FLAG)