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Posted by Dale on 7/26/2004, 1:35 am Materials I suggest 1) Clue-Highly motivating for older students, but beware that it is hard to play in a typical 30 minute session I know this is a lot of information, and you can't afford to get all of these materials at once. I hope this will help you narrow the focus of which products you will consider. There is nothing worse than thinking something is going to be great only to be disappointed when you try to use it. Good luck with your CFY.
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I have to say that my favorite publisher for this age range is linguisystems. They also have an awesome conference in Las Vegas every summer that includes a voucher for free materials, great speakers, and breakfast, lunch, and snacks every day.
2) No glamour language- this got me through my CFY. There are tons of worksheets on several different areas of language. I like the entire No glamour series from linguisystems. They are enourmous books with lots of great worksheets for therapy.
3) Fun with Fluency-this is the most organized program I have seen for working on fluency. You can do the lessons in order and they will probalby last an entire school year.
4) Fluency at your fingertips- this book is great for fluency and language kids. It has thematic untis with activites that require different levels of response. First single word, then phrase, etc.
5) Practical Language Activities- The name says it all. This book has great, practical activites for language therapy.
6) UNO-this is another cheap, common game that is strangely motivating for older students. Most boardgames can be used in speech therapy. They can be used with artic kids. They take a turn after they practice their sound. THey can also be used to work on language and pragmatic skills as part of the game.
7) If you have access to a computer in your room, you may want to add several websites to your list of favorites to use during therapy. Some quick suggestions are www.quia.com, www.funbrain.com, and www.cogcon.com/gamegoo/gooey
8) Teaching morphology developmentally- this is a set of flashcards that covers early developing grammatical structures like plurals, past tense, and possesives. The cards can be used with any game.
9) Room 14- This is a great structured program for teaching social/pragmatic skills.
10) No glmour articulation- a huge resource of pictures, words, and sentences for articulation therapy. You can save money on artic cards by photocpying the pages with pictures of the sounds you need and making your own cards. You could also print out artic cards for the most common sounds from www.speechtx.com
11) Linguisystems now has several boxes of picture cards to address different areas of language. These would be very convient, because you wouldn't have to copy anything.
12) Don't forget the materials exchange from this web site. Lots of free materials waiting to be printed out. I would print some of them on card stock and them laminate them so that they could be used over and over.
13) Create your own seasonally themed gameboards on posterboard and laminate them for durality. The large size will make it easier for all of the kids in the group to reach the board.
14) www.do2learn.com also has some picture cards and materials that can be used in therapy
15) Check www.preschoolprintables.com for cheap calendars and classroom decorations.
16) www.esl-images.com also has pictures that can be printed for use in speech therapy
17) In an elementary school you are likely to have a lot of /r/ kids. I would definately buy the "Webber Vocalic r photo cards" from super duper and/or "the entire world of r story book" from www.sayitright.org
18) CHeck out www.stutteringhelp.org for inexpensive resources on fluency disorders.
19) Pictionary Junior- the best for vocabulary
20) Tribond Kids- also good for vocabulary, but some of the questions are too hard
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