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"This podcast is devoted to helping parents of children with speech and language delays and disorders. Carrie Clark, a speech-language pathologist from Columbia, Missouri, offers resources, information, and activities about speech and language development and delays. Carrie will empower you to use fun and easy activities to improve your child's speech and language skills at home. Activities and information cover a range of ages, ability levels, and disabilities. Topics covered include: articulation, apraxia, phonology, language, late talkers, alternative/augmentative communication (AAC), autism, stuttering, reading, social skills, down syndrome, following directions, answering questions, grammar, etc. Information is also great for speech-language pathologists and educators of children with speech and language delays!"

"Progressive Language helps your communicators progress to full communication! Ever since we released our first core word vocabulary in multiple grid sizes, back in Proloquo2Go 2.0, we've been recommending that people choose the largest grid size they can use. Choosing a large grid size gives you the most language on a single screen. With more language available at a glance, you can quickly recognize the words you want to use. You don't have to remember which folder a word is in and then navigate there"

Original, non-fiction picture books support beginning readers of all ages. Features include predictable, rhythmic language; images with clear, familiar subjects; and text that ranges from one word up to a few sentences per page. These original English texts, created and narrated by a team of contributors, can be listened to in multiple languages, on any device. The intent is to eventually support the 300 languages spoken in American homes.

"The Communication Supports Inventory- Children & Youth (CSI-CY) is a tool to help professionals working with students with complex communication needs make educational plans that are comprehensive enough to capture their strengths and restrictions. The  CSI-CY is designed to make goal writing easier for teachers and speech-language pathologists who work with students who are augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) users or potential users. By itself, it is not an assessment, but rather a guide to organize the professional's understanding of the impact of a student's communication strengths and limitations on their participation at school and home. The Inventory consists of a survey and a report. The World Health Organization developed the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health-Children and Youth Version (ICF-CY) in 2007 to provide a global common language for describing the impact of health conditions and disabilities on human functioning. This Inventory uses that same global common language. It utilizes the broad perspective on function and disability of the ICF-CY to characterize students who use AAC."

Slide deck related to a presentation on teaching language to students who use AAC by planning meaningful activities all day long. It reviews critical components including core vocabulary, motor planning/memory, aided language stimulation, language development, classroom implementation strategies, planning for language all day long, data collection, and more!

Free activities to motivate and engage children to learn speech, language, and communication skills. Need a way to help your students with a speech impairment? Check out this site for ideas to help students make the connection between language, literacy and communication.

Training materials for core language acquisition, aided language, and LAMP: WFL

A perspective on person first language that society should not be using it as it supports ableism

presentation by Chris Bugaj on how to facilitate speech and language for preschoolers.

"Educational games are a great tool for building foundation math and language skills that today's elementary school curriculum requires. These online learning games and songs for kids are fun, teach important skills for preschool and elementary school kids and they're free. Want educational games that help build skills in math, language, science, social studies, and more? You've come to the right place!"

Informal diagnostic tool to assist speech-language pathologist with identifying a language representation system for AAC users. freeware correlate to http://www.closingthegap.com/media/conference/sessions/183/ArtandScienceofAACEval.pdf

Episode #96 defines and examines the benefits of a language-based curriculum and discusses strategies for how teachers can implement this approach into their classrooms.

ECSE teachers, are you planning this way?

"The impact of aided language stimulation on symbol comprehension and production in children with moderate cognitive disabilities"

Narrated original, non-fiction picture books support beginning readers of all ages. Features include predictable, rhythmic language; images with clear, familiar subjects; and text that ranges from one word up to a few sentences per page. Our books provide unique audio support to families who speak (or are learning to speak) English, indigenous or foreign languages. Simple audio buttons on each page allow you to hear narrations by native speakers in warm, expressive voices.

offers free digital picture books, with a twist. Parents can not only sit and read these original English texts from the Unite for Literacy website, but also hear them read in a variety of languages. The intent is to eventually support the 300 languages spoken in American homes.

The Hanen Centre is a Canadian not-for-profit charitable organization committed to supporting parents, early childhood educators and speech-language pathologists in their efforts to promote the best possible language, social and literacy skills in young children."

"Here you will find speech therapy materials for speech-language pathologists, teachers, and parents alike!  Check out the great games, cards, and e-books to help you improve speech and language skills in your child or in your students."

"Our site includes interactive learning games, quizzes, and worksheet generator tools by subject (creative arts, foreign languages, language arts, math, science, social studies), articles, literacy coloring pages and more." Searchable!

Welcome to the PRC AAC Language Lab: A Rich Resource of Learning Tools for Using and Teaching AAC.

note that there is now an annual subscription fee for full access to the resources however, there are still free resources available

"Reading and writing are modalities of  language (just like listening & talking). The more we integrate literacy into language learning the more opportunities for prAACtice and learning.  Think of all the ways to prAACtice core words with reading and writing (e.g., "read again", "write about that", "that is good", "He was bad", "tell me more", "I know", etc…). With this in mind, we love encouraging a love of literacy for ALL of our students. Here are some top tips we have learned from the most reluctant reader/writers, to beginning reader/writers, to even the more proficient readers/writers. It is such a great pleasure to watch students begin to love literacy as much as we do."