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Creative Fail

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I’ve been walking around with 2 bags of tiny plastic Walmart babies in my purse for the last three weeks.  The only time they come out of my purse is when I’m scrounging around trying to find my credit card at the grocery store.  (I have 2 wallets in my purse-yet my credit card is […]

Penguin Vowels

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I just finished a revised version of Penguin Vowels on my TPT store-I’m really excited about this one for several reasons:  1.   Helping children produce accurate vowels makes a HUGE differences in their intelligibility.  Consider this sentence:  “I eat two potatoes.”   A child who has all of their vowels intact but no consonants would […]

Word Making Tools Download

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So we are coming up on a pretty exciting milestone here at Speech2U blog: 500 page views.  I’m pretty excited!  Although in the blog-o-sphere, I think this means that I’m still a pretty super secret blogger.  But for me, at least I know some people have read it, because I know I haven’t checked my […]

Multisyllabic Words

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Lots of Snowfall here today, which meant I was pretty busy trying to create some materials for my clients next week.  I have a lot of clients right now who need to work on intelligibility.  One thing that seems to negatively impact their intelligibility is when they don’t consistently or accurately mark each syllable in […]

Helping children communicate when sick.

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One of the things that can be so frustrating when working with children with significant communication challenges, is trying to determine HOW they are feeling.   Frequently, parents will tell me that they wish their child could TELL them if they were in pain or hurting.  Generally, I think these clients do tell us when […]

Ninja Articulation

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My son and I just finished reading a Magic Treehouse book about Ninja’s.  Last night he was running around the house with a towel wrapped around his head, “I’m Ninjago.”  At first, I thought he was brilliant.  He was making up NEW words.   But it turns out Ninjago is a Lego ninja. Anyhow, when […]

MonsteRenegades

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I recently subbed in for a client I had over the summer with difficulty producing /r/.  It took most of the summer to establish the /r/ and we were working on it at the word level.  A few weeks ago, I filled in for her current speech language pathologist.   What a difference a few months […]

Scrambled Egg Sentences

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I have several clients who have significant difficulty creating grammatical correct sentences during conversational speech.  Two of them have goals for sequencing a group of words to make a sentence.  We’ve used some great worksheets from Linguisystem’s No Glamour Grammar books.  But after awhile, we were starting to get a little bored.  One thing I […]

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