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Product: 5 Minute Therapy
Authors: Sue Sexton and Linda Eve Seth
For more information: www.5minutekids.com
Target Audience: articulation practice for all ages
The very talented ladies who brought you the "5 Minute Kids" articulation therapy program and the "G.R.O.W.S." ("Get Rid Of Worksheets Now") series of language and basic concepts lessons for classrooms have joined forces to produce an exciting new series of articulation therapy books called "5 Minute Therapy." Each of the six volumes in this series is devoted to single or groups of phonemes: /r/, /s,z/, /sh/ch/, /l/, /k,g/, /f,v,th/. Each volume contains the following:
- Data sheets at the word, phrase, and sentence levels
- Word bank lists of words containing the target sounds in the initial, medial, and final positions
- Reading lists of words, phrases, and sentences containing words with the target sound in the initial, medial, and final positions
- Quick and easy games for therapy and homework
- A variety of activities to promote carryover in school and at home
- Charts for calculating percentages
Whether you are using the innovative "5 Minute Kids" therapy approach or delivering services in a more traditional model, you will find these materials to be a fantastic resource -- a "must have" for your therapy bag of tricks! I have used these materials very successfully in conjunction with Artic-U-Checks and Speech on the Go (see below for description), and highly recommend them!
Each volume (80+ pages each) sells for $18. The entire set is available for a discounted rate of $99.
January 2010
Product: Speech on the Go CD
Author: Kelly Smith-Vernon, M.A., CCC
Source: Speaking of Speech.com (SOS.com Products Page)
Speech on the Go is a
resource book on disk that is designed to help bridge the gap between articulation
therapy, the classroom and home.
It can be used as part of traditional articulation therapy during the
carryover phase or even as a resource for speech sound intervention. Speech on the Go has over one
hundred pages of reproducible materials to help the school-based speech
language pathologist. The resource
book has four sections:
• The first
section includes various homework sheets for connected
speech practice.
• The second section includes handouts to
help the busy school SLP
coordinate and collaborate with teachers on students’
articulation
goals.
• The third
section includes handouts for targeting students’
speech
sounds during everyday activities at home.
• The fourth section provides “reminder phrases” for each
sound to be
used on stickers and bookmarks. These “reminder phrases” are
designed to be used “on the go” with students.
When Kelly first sent me a preview copy of her Speech on the Go CD, I was immediately impressed with the scope of the materials it contained, and could see many ways in which these materials could be used to support my own busy caseload. I have not been disappointed! Feedback from teachers and parents have from very positive, and I'm delighted to have a resource that is quick and easy to use. Click HERE to check out sample pages from this CD. I'm sure you'll be impressed, too!