Speech Videos

I recently started creating some videos for my speech students (who have access to the internet):
1. become more familiar with the visual-tactile cues I use with them in therapy 
2. think about speech at a time other than their speech session
3. teach parents what the cues are and give a short tutorial on how to use them (which is often more effective than trying to type it out in words!

I learned most of these cues from a co-worker and I believe they are adapted from "Easy Does it for Apraxia".  

Some visuals are from Super Duper's Jumbo Articulation Drill Book.

All visual I make are made using Boardmaker.

So here are some of the videos I have made so far.  Very casual.  Hope you find them useful!

Practice videos:

Silly Sounds Visual

Row 1 (P, B, M, T, D)

Row 2 (N, K, G, H, F)

How to use these to cue

Final Sound Videos for listening

Final M

Final P

Final B

Words with F videos for listening

Initial F

Medial F

Final F

Initial and Final S Visual Words

I use these to work on initial and final 's' using a 'snake sound' cue.  It is helpful for reminding a student 'you forgot the snake' and for helping to diminish an extra sound.

PDF Files:
S Final Visual Words
S Initial Visual Words

S-Cluster Visual Phrases

My preschoolers often work on s-clusters (aka s-blends) because they are so teachable and have such an impact on intelligibility.  They also benefit from chunking their speech targets with a visual representation of each chunk. I use these often, starting with just the words (or keyword) and later adding in the 'phrase' component.

PDF File:
S Cluster Visual Phrases

36 Core Board

After I put my 24-core vocabulary communication board to use I found there are some high-use verbs and locatives that I wanted access to for modeling and motivation.  I also added the shapes colors and numbers that are usually my first go-to for fringe! The result is this board.  Designed to be the base with a fringe-flip on the right.

PDF File:
36 Core Vocabulary Board plus color shape number fringe

Getting Dressed

I developed this board to assist a highly unintelligible student who was having communication breakdowns while getting dressed.  Enjoy!  

PDF file:
General dressing communication board

Mr Potato Head

I love Mr. Potato head and more importantly, my students love him too.  Here are a few activities I've used with my students!

GoTalk4+ Potato Head

Potato Head Communication Board

Potato Head Fringe Board

12 Core Board

Here is a 12 core version I used with a student as well!  

PDF file: 
12 Core Vocabulary Communication Board

8 Core Boards

As my students progress, I expand their core.  This board is used with the song "Icky Sticky Bubblegum" by David Landau.

PDF Files:

8 Core Vocabulary Icky Sticky Bubblegum

8 Core Vocabulary Blank

Fringe to complement this board:

Animals

Concepts

Emotions

Numbers

Weather

Zoo Animals

3 Core Boards

These more simple '3 core' boards have worked well for me with emerging communicators and students with Autism.  

PDF files:
3 Core Vocabulary Shapes
3 Core Vocabulary Colors
3 Core Vocabulary Potato Head

24 Core Boards

I used a paper by Gail Van Tatenhove to choose the vocabulary (her website) and color-coded the boxes according to the Fitgerald Key.  

PDF Files:
24 Core Vocabulary Communication Board 
24 Core Vocabulary Board plus magnetic block fringe

*edit* after putting this board into practice I decided to create my 36 Core Board, check it out!

Fringe Vocabulary to complement this board:

Colors and Shapes

Magnetic Tiles

Potato Head