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Links to Speech Therapy Resources for Home Practice
General Resources
- Access this link for various free resources for articulation, language, social skills, and AAC: https://www.speechsproutstherapy.com/2020/03/50-terrific-free-speech-therapy.html
- Access this link for free articulation, language, and social skills practice activities: https://www.home-speech-home.com/speech-therapy-word-lists.html
- 18 Activities for Speech and Language Practice at Home: https://www.thespeechexpress.com/blog/activities-for-speech-and-language-practice-at-home?fbclid=IwAR0pRlKAF-38eTtgckQ7nF3ZvKzp27CCjRgVHO3gYGWbhVFf_tRp_AzVqk8
- Super Duper Inc.'s Handy Handouts has a wide variety of worksheets and activities for home practice for all skill areas: https://www.superduperinc.com/Handouts/Handout.aspx
- Mia McDaniel's free compilation of 100 resources for all areas of speech and language (with direct links): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1txWUWtxViJM_9lSgWbwXbvfDYcBZb3R5/view
Articulation:
- This site provides pictures for targeted sounds in all positions of words: https://mommyspeechtherapy.com/?page_id=55
- Access this link for articulation practice activities: https://www.home-speech-home.com/speech-therapy-word-lists.html
- Online articulation games: https://www.quia.com/pages/havemorefun.html
- Fill in the blanks to make funny stories with words containing your speech sound: http://www.eduplace.com/tales/
- Create custom bingo boards with your speech sounds: http://www.dltk-cards.com/bingo/bingo1.asp
Receptive/Expressive Language - Elementary
- Sequencing Games: www.quia.com/pages/sequencingfun.html
- Nina Loves to Name Things (classifying game): http://www.scholastic.com/earlylearner/timetogether/online/bll/nina/index.htm
- PBS Kids: https://pbskids.org/games/ (opportunities for following directions, basic concepts, sequencing, listening comprehension)
- Quia - mixed articulation and language games: https://www.quia.com/shared/speech_therapy/
- StoryPlace.Org StoryPlace.org is a website that has a number of online stories and interactive activities for preschoolers and elementary-aged students. Each theme includes an online story, online activity, printable “take-home” activities and suggestions for parents. A booklist that corresponds to each theme is also offered. https://www.storyplace.org/
- www.rhlschool.com/reading.htm
- Free reading comprehension worksheets for teachers and parents to copy https://www.storylineonline.net
- Highly recommend for stories read aloud by actors and actresses. Great for retell, predicting, answer WH-Questions, perspective taking, problem solving, etc.
- Funbrain: http://www.funbrain.com/index.html (Find "Grammar Gorillas [parts of speech], "Word Confusion" [homonyms], "What's the Word?" [picture vocabulary], 2Bee or Nottoobee [verb conjugation), and "Paint by Idioms")
- online language games: http://www.quia.com/pages/havefun.html (listed under articulation games halfway down the page)
- Access this link for free articulation, language, and social skills practice activities: https://www.home-speech-home.com/speech-therapy-word-lists.html
Receptive/Expressive Language - Secondary
- Idiom Connection: http://www.idiomconnection.com/
- Idiom Games: http://www.vocabulary.co.il/idioms/
- Free collection of reading passages in all literary and nonfiction genres for grades 3-12: www.commonlit.org
- Funbrain: http://www.funbrain.com/index.html (Find "Grammar Gorillas [parts of speech], "Word Confusion" [homonyms], "What's the Word?" [picture vocabulary], 2Bee or Nottoobee [verb conjugation), and "Paint by Idioms")
- Access this link for free articulation, language, and social skills practice activities: https://www.home-speech-home.com/speech-therapy-word-lists.html
Social Language
- Pixar short films available on YouTube- excellent for inferencing, theme, main idea, etc.: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pixar+shorts
- YouTube has some nice Every Day Speech video examples involving social skills. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=everyday+speech+social+skills+videos
- Conversation Starters: https://www.home-speech-home.com/conversation-starter-activities.html
AAC
- LAMP Words for Life Vocabulary Books and Activities: https://www.stormspeechtherapy.com/augmentative-and-alternative-communication/aac-device-vocabulary-books/vocab-for-prc-devices-and-lamp-words-for-life
- Book List with links and suggested core words for modeling: https://www.coreworkshop.org/books
- This link will take you to a list of 70 picture books that can be used to target core vocabulary for AAC: https://omazingkidsllc.com/2018/04/16/70-kids-picture-books-to-target-core-vocabulary-for-aac/
- This school has created weekly calendars for AAC use at home, including video tutorials to review device navigation for each system: https://sites.google.com/view/escdaac/aac-calendar
Fluency
- From the Stuttering Foundation: https://www.stutteringhelp.org/blog/what-can-you-do-help-your-child-their-stuttering-while-they%E2%80%99re-home