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Speech & Language Therapy Materials & Tools
This site looks at the most effective tools that I have used over the past 20 or so years of practicing speech-language therapy. I say practicing because I am always learning new ways to try old ideas. Please contribute any therapy ideas that you have and would wish to share with others. Any copyrighted items/ideas are the respective property of the copyright holders.
Photo courtesy of: ASHA
Photo courtesy of: ASHA
My Toolbox
Here Are the Products that I Use.
Here are the products that I have used with success during the 20 years that I have been a Speech-Language Pathologist. They are arranged by disorder and will take you to a different lens. A return link will bring you back here or you can use the back button in your browser.
- Asperger Treatment Materials - One SLP's Toolbox
- I'm not only a practicing Speech-Language Pathologist, I'm a father of a son with Asperger's Syndrome. I specialize in working with older children and adolescents with speech and language disorders and I have found some products that I use both at work and at home. I want to share them with other SLPs and parents in the hope that they might be helpful to you and yours.
- Articulation Therapy Materials - One SLP's Toolbox
- Articulation and Speech Intelligibility are the cornerstone of a Speech-Language Pathologist's work in the school setting. The materials highlighted in this toolbox are ones that I have used and found successful and maybe are not that commonly known.
- Language Therapy Materials - One SLP's Toolbox
- This toolbox is designed to highlight the most effective materials I have used over the past 20 years as a Speech-Language Pathologist. I know, I know there are many areas to language therapy, however these materials have proven themselves to be multi-taskers, able to be used for many different areas.
More Asperger's Resources
From Amazon
- Speech Therapy Stuff - Asperger's Titles
- More resources for helping with Asperger's Syndrome. Please check them out and find the items you need.
Spotlight on Materials
Little People Farm
Fisher-Price Little People Animal Sounds Farm
The Swiss Army Knife of therapy materials. Give me this set or the Little People House (below) and I can perform any therapy task, especially with younger children.
Spotlight on Materials
Little People House
Fisher Price Little People
Busy Day Home
Another Swiss Army Knife of Therapy Materials. As with the farm, with this set I can do anything with anyone. Bring it on...
Spotlight on Materials
The Not-For-Wimps Speech and Language Workout Book
REPRODUCIBLE WORKSHEETS
Even though this product is out of print, I find it the most useful tool for students in 4th grade and up. I have successfully used it for years. I do understand that Mr. Wilson has other products available at:
http://home.kcbx.net/~halwilson/Geezer/home.htm
Mr. Wilson's new products and site.
- A Growling Old Geezer's Speech Pathology Tool Box - Therapy Ideas and Activities for the Professional Speech Pathologist
- This is a curmudgeonly collection of materials and ideas for survival in the field of Speech and Language Pathology. This site also acts as a gathering place for professionals to exchange favorite strategies and ideas.
Helpful Websites
Were to go online to give you a hand.
Here are a few websites that I have found personally helpful or just really cool. Check them out and let me know what you think!
- Phonetics: The Sounds of English and Spanish - The University of Iowa
- This site contains FLASH animated libraries of the phonetic sounds of Spanish and English. Available for each consonant and vowel is an animated articulatory diagram, a step-by-step description, and video-audio of the sound spoken in context. It is intended for students of phonetics, linguistics, and foreign language.
Speech Language Therapy Resources
Websites of popular publishers that I use
Here are the biggies. Where I order my products from. None of these have affiliate programs that I know of so don't worry about that affecting my opinion of them...Please let me know of others that you use so I can add them to this list!
- Super Duper Publications
- The big boys on the block. Lots and Lots of resources. Original free shipping company too...they forced the others to offer it as well...Welcome to Super Duper® Publications! Enter a world of fun, creative speech, language, and hearing, special education,
classroom, and occupational therapy materials for children with special needs. - LinguiSystems, Inc. - Speech Language Pathology - Learning Disabilities - Reading
- LinguiSystems publishes ready-to-use materials for speech language pathology, learning disabilities, at risk reading, language arts, reading comprehension, autism, articulation, apraxia, auditory processing, vocabulary, grammar, phonological awareness, assessment, and more.
- The Speech Bin
- Abilitations Speech Bin provides a wide range of innovative speech therapy products to help children with special speech or hearing needs achieve their full potential. Resources, activities and games for speech-language pathology professionals in occupational therapy and special education.
- Pearson Speech and Language
- Pearson Speech/Language Assessments and Intervention Tools
- Psychorp
- The PsychCorp brand of Speech and Language assessments are dedicated to providing you with most reliable products that are designed to accurately assess clients and target appropriate planning and intervention, providing you with The Power to Improve Lives.
Amazon Voting
Therapy Materials on Amazon
You'd never think of it. Amazon really does have EVERYTHING. Here are some therapy materials that I found on Amazon for less!
Eliciting Sounds: Techniques and Strategies for Clinicians by Wayne A. Secord, Suzanne E. Boyce, JoAnn S. Donohue, Robert A. Fox, Richard E. Shine
Most speech-language pathologists will, at one tim more...0 points
The Parents Guide to Speech and Language Problems by Debbie Feit
<p><b>Your definitive guide for helpin more...0 points
Assessment in Speech-Language Pathology: A Resource Manual by Kenneth G. Shipley, Julie G. McAfee
This valuable reference is a cornerstone resource more...0 points
Advice for New Faculty Members by Robert Boice
<b> </b> Advice for New Faculty Member more...0 points
More Speech Stuff on Amazon
U-Play Mat, At-Home Speech and Language Development System for Toddlers & Preschoolers: Professional Set
Amazon Price: $87.99 (as of 01/02/2010) 
Educational Insights LipSync
Amazon Price: $46.61 (as of 01/02/2010)
Practical Audiology for Speech and Language Therapy Work
Amazon Price: $50.60 (as of 01/02/2010)
New Zealand Journal of Speech Language Therapy
Amazon Price: $38.82 (as of 01/02/2010)
U-Play Mat, At-Home Speech and Language Development System for Toddlers & Preschoolers: Starter Set
Amazon Price: $49.99 (as of 01/02/2010)
Speech Stuff on eBay
Fetching new data from eBay now... please stand by
Therapy Materials offered at Lulu
Therapy Talk
some random musings about the practice of Speech-Langauge Pathology
Mattel Wants Small Special Education Company Super Duper Publications to Pay $5.46 million and Stop Selling SAY ProductsApparently not satisfied with the $400,000 judgment against small special education company, Super Duper Publications, Mattel Toy Company has now asked the trial court to make Super Duper pay $5.46 million dollars of Mattel's attorneys' fee and costs. This is all based upon Super Duper using the word SAY in some of its speech and language product titles.
In addition, Mattel has asked the trial court to permanently prohibit Super Duper from selling seven lines of its SAY products until Super Duper changes the names in the titles of these products to something that does not use the word SAY. If the court grants this request, Super Duper will have to destroy hundreds of thousands of dollars in special education product inventory, stop selling these products indefinitely, and spend hundreds of thousands to replace these products with ones that have new titles.
Super Duper, a publisher of special education materials, has been in a four-year long legal battle with the world's largest toy company, Mattel, over the right to use the words "AND SAY" on its educational materials. The final outcome of this case will have widespread impact on the rights of special needs and other educational companies to protect trade names on their materials against attacks from huge companies like Mattel.
Super Duper, started by Thomas and Sharon Webber 22 years ago in Greenville, South Carolina, has provided tens of thousands of autistic and other learning disabled children with helpful educational products. Since 1987, the Webbers have used the words "AND SAY" and "SAY AND" in the titles of their speech and language materials, including workbooks, card decks, and games.
Wow...What do you all think?
Check out more at:
www.superduperinc.com
Great Stuff on CafePress
Reader Reviews
Share your opinion about various products.
This is the place to praise or bury commonly used products. Have something that you think is great? Post it here. Have something that you think is a waste of money? Let us all know. Everyone else? Vote up and down based on your opinion. Lets have some fun!
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