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10 Free Resources to Help Parents Facilitate Speech and Language at Home

As a Speech-Language Pathologist, I feel that a good portion of my job is parent education and helping parents find fun and functional ways to work on the carryover of skills and facilitate speech and language skills at home. When I first started as a Speech-Language Pathologist, I typically assigned extra “homework” to my students that consisted of printed-out pages for drill work. Like many of us do, I learned the hard way that going the “homework” route may help some families but it does not help the majority of my families because time is valuable. Family time is even more valuable. What kind of memory would you prefer a child to walk away with – working on handouts and drills or spending time reading books, playing games, and cooking in the kitchen with their parent?

Check out these ten free resources that I found to help parents facilitate speech and language at home. Although there are 10 links below to downloadable resources, some of the links actually include more than one resource! Jackpot!

• Speech and Language Handouts for Parents by Primary Punch – This download contains 25 different handouts! Seriously! It has 25 different handouts to help educate parents on ways they can help their child with articulation, fluency, language, topic maintenance, core words, and so much more!
• Speech Practice on the Go by A Perfect Blend – This handout provides suggestions for different language goals that can be targeted while in the car.
• Selective Mutism Parent/Teacher Handout by Speak Up Speech – This handout was created to give a general understanding of how to interact with our students with Selective Mutism.
• Pediatric Feeding Handout by Jenny’s Feeding Gear – This freebie provides information on tips and suggestions that parents can make feeding time fun.
• Parent Handout for Toddlers and Early Intervention by a Gift of Gab – This freebie contains strategies and techniques that parents can use to encourage language at home. Information is provided in both English and Spanish.
• Language Through Everyday Interactions by Speech and Language Family Education – This handout provides quick and easy ways that parents can create a language-enriched home. Information is provided in both English and Spanish.
• Facilitate Expressive and Receptive Language at Home by Speech2Teach – This freebie contains separate handouts for receptive language and expressive language suggestions.
• AAC Modeling for Parents by Ms. Petersen SLP – This handout promotes parent modeling and provides suggestions on ways parents can incorporate it into their routine.
• Help Children Develop a Healthy Attitude by Stuttering Therapy Resources – This is a wonderful freebie to share with parents for our students that stutter!
• Tips for Caregivers for Articulation by A Simple Home SLP – Great tips and suggestions for parents working at home with their children on articulation.

Looking for more ideas?  Check out these blog posts!

• Language-building Tips and Handouts for Parents from The Hanen Centre – Great information!
• 5 Fun Speech Therapy Ideas for Parents to do at Home by Adventures in Speech Pathology – This is full of really great ideas.
• 3 Tips to Share with Parents at an IEP Meeting – Woohoo!

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As Speech Language Pathologists, we are always on the hunt for a good Speech Therapy handout - and bonus if it’s free.

This massive list of free speech therapy handouts will help you find amazing handouts to share with parents, speech therapy assessment, and therapy planning. These free speech therapy printables cover a variety of topics, including developmental norms, speech therapy activity ideas, apraxia of speech, homework planning, play observation, and language processing.

This Apraxia Homework Planner is perfect for keeping parents in the loop! Use this easy to use checklist to note which cues are beneficial, which word shapes they are working on, which carrier phrases to target, and what their child's target words are.

Cues for Apraxia of Speech: Use this Speech Therapy Handout for Apraxia of Speech as a quick reference when using DTTC, Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing , with your students. Includes a hierarchy of cues that can be used with your toddlers, preschoolers, and school aged children during speech therapy! The cues are sorted by level of support, so you can appropriately support your students in saying accurate productions. **For more about DTTC, please visit www.ctsspeechhearing.org**.

Apraxia of Speech Homework Plan: This free homework planning sheet for Speech Therapy was designed with the busy SLP in mind! Use this easy to use checklist to keep parents of children with Apraxia of Speech informed of which targets they are working on, the type of cue their child benefits from, and so much more!

Speech and Language Therapy Strategies and Accomodations for the Classroom : This easy to use checklist is perfect to supplement any speech therapy consultation visit or to help you with writing your IEPs. Includes a variety of speech therapy strategies for expressive language, receptive language, articulation, phonology, early language, behaviour, and visual supports.

Word Shape Hierarchy: Use this visual representation of Word Shape difficulty with parents or teachers - or use for yourself! Children with Apraxia of Speech have difficulty combing a variety of sounds in a variety of ways - especially when the word is complex. This simple speech therapy handout for Apraxia of Speech will help you choose your goals for Apraxia of Speech!

Prosody Calendar for Apraxia of Speech: Children with Apraxia of Speech often have prosodic differences. It is important for children with Apraxia of Speech to practice speaking using different rates, volumes, and pitches from a young age!

Send this print and go handout home with your students with Childhood Apraxia of Speech, or use as a guide in your own therapy. Have fun practicing using different rates, volumes, and pitches with your students.

Speech Therapy on a Walk : Use this free handout for Speech Therapy for carryove r of a variety of speech and language skills.! With this free parent handout, teachers and Speech Therapists can provide parents with easy to implement strategies and activities to use during a walk.

What Question Handout for Speech Therapy: This handout is full of practical and easy to implement activities with everyday items, as well as effective strategies for teaching answering what questions. This one-page handout provides enough information for parents (or you!) to implement therapy for up to one month! That means less prep for YOU! This WH-Question Handout includes:

age of typical acquisition

example of correct and incorrect answer types

Fun activity ideas for speech therapy

detailed cueing hierarchy, with examples

a list of WH- questions to practice

Past Tense Verbs Handout for Speech Therapy: Share this grammar handout with parents, teachers, and school staff. This Handout includes:

Parent friendly explanation of when the past tense -ed morpheme is used.

Typical age of acquisition.

Example of correct and incorrect use.

Cueing hierarchy, with examples.

Classroom Strategies.

Activity Ideas and/or Book Suggestions

Categorization Handout for Speech Therapy : Give this Language Processing: Categorization handout to parents, teachers, and school staff. This print and go handout includes everything you need to teach this speech and language skill! This handout features:

Explanation of the Goal

Low-prep Activity Ideas

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6 Stages of Social Play Development: This handout will help you understand how play develops in childhood. Each of the six stages of social play development is explained and development norms are provided.

Ideas for Play Materials: Wondering how to get kids engaged in therapy? Make sure you are using toys and activities that are appropriate for their level of play. This quick and easy reference sheet includes materials ideas for different levels of play, including pretend play, parallel play, sensorimotor play, dramatic play, and constructive play.

Play Observation Form: This easy to use checklist will help with your play based assessments. Give to parents to complete or complete yourself. Gain an understanding of the child's interests, levels of play, and attention span.

Favorite Resources for themed therapy: Interested in starting to use themes in your speech therapy sessions? Use this list of books, board games, toys, crafts and gross motor activities to help you plan your speech therapy sessions. Includes ideas for pets, farm, zoo, food, monster, and baking.

Why we Play in Speech Therapy: This handout provides Evidence Based Reasons of why Speech Therapy involves a lot of play! Share this with teachers, parents, or school staff to explain the importance of play in speech and language development.

5 Characteristics of Playful Learning: Have you ever wondered what characteristics of play help a child learn? This handout tells you exactly which five features of play help kids learn and explains them in detail.

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I wanted to let you all know that I’ve added two new PDFs to the worksheets page to download for free! First, I’ve updated the Speech Sound Development chart that was created based on the speech sound norms from the Goldman Fristoe 2.

Speech Sound Development charts are often used as a guide in determining whether a child’s sound acquisitions are developmentally appropriate or delayed. For more information on speech sound norms you may be interested in my post, “When are Speech Sounds Developed.”

I have also added a PDF of the Process of Articulation Therapy pinwheel which includes an outline explaining this process. This is a great handout for SLPs to share with parents, teachers or other professionals. You may find more information on this process in my post, “The Process of Articulation Therapy.”

You can click the active links in this post to download these PDFs or you can download them from the worksheets page . Click the “Misc. Articulation Forms” bar on the worksheets page to download the Process of Articulation Therapy PDF . I hope you will enjoy these downloads and find them useful. Thanks for reading!

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Early Intervention Parent Handouts for Speech & Language Development

02/23/2016 by Jenna 20 Comments

Parent education is such an important part of early intervention.  If you know me at all you know I love a good handout, so I’m excited to share with you some EI handouts for communication development. I try to remember that there is NO WAY a parent can remember all the advice I give, let alone share it with everyone else in the child’s life. It’s like when a I leave the orthopedic surgeon’s office and have already forgotten anything I didn’t write down. When you give a handout to stick on the fridge, the babysitter and grandma can also get a chance to learn the strategy!

I shared some pictures recently of Early Intervention Parent Handouts and I can already tell you guys are needing these as much as I was! Right now, I work with about 10 preschoolers with significant delays and these parents needed handouts more typical of 1-3 year old communication levels. Their parents need to know what to work on besides imitating words! They need to know HOW to increase from 20 single words to 50. They need to know how to move from single words to 2-word phrases. The packet has six sheets for developmental norms in several different areas including pre-verbal skills, speech sounds, language, word count, and literacy.

I also included seven of my most-used language strategies to eliciting or expanding language. These are all written in parent-friendly language.

You can grab the handouts in my store for instant download .

I tried to pick language strategies that I recommend the most. I’d love to hear what other EI handouts you need! Leave me a comment and I’ll try to make sure they get covered in set #2!

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02/24/2016 at 1:53 am

It’s like you’re reading my mind! Products I wish I had but never could have put together as clearly and adorably! I work with preschool but the EI tips are still totally relevant! I would love to see some higher level stuff for preschoolers in the next packet!

02/24/2016 at 5:48 pm

Thanks Hannah! You mean like the language strategies?

02/28/2016 at 4:47 pm

Yes! Set 1 seems perfect for my lower preschool kiddos. I would love handouts for the students working on answering questions, following directions, sequencing etc.

02/24/2016 at 12:11 pm

Hi Jenna. Would you ever consider having these and other parent handouts professionally translated into Spanish?

02/24/2016 at 4:56 pm

I was just thinking the same thing! I have a lot of Spanish speaking parents that would benefit from these!

02/24/2016 at 5:49 pm

I’m scared to let someone translate them because I can’t edit them myself! So I’d be publishing something under my name but not able to make sure it is done right! I’ll look around and see what I can find! I’d also have to do norms in spanish and I am not familiar with that!

02/24/2016 at 8:18 pm

Brian Goldstein is well known for his work with bilingual Spanish speaking children. He co-wrote Bilingual Language Development and Disorders in Spanish-English Speakers, Second Edition 2nd Edition. If you look him you can find some good evidence based information :o)

03/10/2016 at 1:16 pm

I want to second the request for Spanish translation. Is there a nearby university that could help? Some university programs have ELL programs for adults. That, or maybe a translation/interpretation firm… maybe a nearby PreK program with bilingual teachers or service providers. If your district works with bilingual SLPs or hires translators to help with assessments, they might also be an option. This is a huge need, and I’m sure the number of downloads would go up!

03/02/2017 at 7:06 am

Third request for Spanish interpretation. I NEED TO LEARN SPANISH!

05/11/2016 at 5:28 pm

Would be so awesome to have Spanish handouts

02/25/2016 at 4:58 pm

Hi there! I purchased these WONDERFUL handouts to give to parents of the kiddos I work with in Early Intervention, but on the last page I noticed it says “do not share with other SLPs, teachers, or parents. Please refer them to the SRN website.” Does this mean I can’t print them out to give to parents?

02/25/2016 at 5:57 pm

You can share them with any of those people you listed! I mean please don’t send the whole packet for other other SLPs or Teachers to pass out to their caseload. Your purchase means you will share it with your caseload only. thanks for checking!

02/25/2016 at 5:58 pm

Thank you for clarifying!! 🙂

09/23/2016 at 12:36 pm

Hi Jenna. Is it okay to include a handout in a general newsletter that goes home to all preschoolers in our school? I think these would be great to add one each time the newsletter goes out to the parents.

09/23/2016 at 1:35 pm

Yes, Linda! You can hand it out to your school/caseload, just don’t share it with another SLP to do the same to her building! Any other SLPs you want to share it with can purchase an additional license at 50%!

01/20/2017 at 11:36 am

Jenna, when I click on the link to buy these handouts I am told the page no longer exists. Can you send me a link to the handouts? Thank you!

01/20/2017 at 2:32 pm

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Early-Intervention-Parent-Handouts-for-Speech-and-Language-Development-2409270

04/15/2017 at 6:01 pm

This is a fabulous set of handouts! I am Hanen trained and do primarily Early Intervention – and this matches up beautifully with the recommendations I include at the end of nearly every assessment. Pretty sure most parents file that report but may be more apt to read your ‘visually friendly handouts! Love them❤ (As I do most all of your ideas 😉

01/03/2018 at 1:36 pm

Hi Jenna- I have downloaded these handouts and LOVE them. I use them with many of my families. I am a bilingual SLP and my Spanish-speaking caseload is growing. I am wondering if you would be comfortable with me translating the text into Spanish. I would be happy to share my translations with you when I am finished. Thank you!

09/10/2019 at 2:20 pm

Hi! I still love this packet so much!!! Did these handouts ever officially get translated into Spanish?? I am dying to buy the Spanish version, but do not see it.

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Late Talker Parent Handouts

My late talker handouts are a must for any late talker treatment program!

Late talker therapy LOOKS a lot like play since most of the work happens during play. However, ask any speech language pathologist, it is much harder than it looks! It takes a lot of attention and skill to know how to:

• engage children while letting them lead the play
• naturally modify the environment
• speak in a simple yet purposeful way
• expand play
• map words on to play routines
• expand utterances
• the list goes on!

There is a lot to learn and this can be overwhelming to parents. 

To help alleviate this stress, I created some parent friendly handouts that can be used as part of a home therapy program that helps them learn the techniques they need for their individual child!

Late Talker Parent Strategies Handouts

I created a "parent friendly" handout for each principle/technique that I find to be crucial for a successful program.

• Professionals: These handouts can be printed out and given to parents as needed as part of a therapy program.
• Parents: If your child is enrolled in a therapy program, but you would like more guidance and/or reminders of best practices at home, these handouts are for you

The topics covered include:

1. How To Model Language

Children at this age, or any age, won’t learn words unless they are presented and practiced in meaningful ways. 

Modeling words allows a child  time to process the word! It can take some practice to learn HOW to model words. To learn more about this please either watch the video below or learn more at my Modeling Language For Late Talkers page.

I created a handout that reviews what not to do, when to model words, how to model words, and why to model words for parents.

2. Withholding an Object

Many times, parents will withhold objects in order to encourage their children to start talking. While this technique comes from a good place, it can be cruel if not used properly or at the right time. 

In my parent friendly handout, I review: 

• when to withhold an object (only when the child has a word/sign in their expressive vocabulary) and have used it spontaneously over multiple contexts
• when NOT to withhold an object (an equally important skill)
• why to withhold an object (to work on independence and confidence)
• how to withhold an object and support/prompt the child if they can't name the object upon first request (we want all communication to be successful so skilled prompting is key!)

3. Imitation

Imitation is a MUST in late talker therapy. Once a child is able to imitate words, progress really takes off.

• gestures and motor skills
• gestures paired with a sound
• fun, exclamatory sounds

Then, you can use the handout to help guide parents where and how to focus their practice at home.

4. How To Play....Purposefully!

Since therapy happens during play, it is essential that parents know how to play with a purpose!

In my handout, I review: 

• Positioning (get down on the level of the child)
• How and why you must follow your child's lead during play
• How and why to talk with a purpose
• How and why to you must listen and respond appropriately to develop language

5. 3 Strikes & You Win

This technique is something I created to help parents learn how to:

• Model words using visual cues
• Pause to allow time for the child to repeat
• Prompt appropriately with child doesn't repeat

This handout is a must have!

6. Repeat-Expand-Repeat 

Expanding on a child's utterances is an effective way to naturally teach a child the next level of language development (i.e., move a child from 1 word utterances to 2 word utterances.

In my parent handout, I review how accomplish this task naturally with an example:

• Child says a word
• Repeat word
• Expand the word
• Pause long enough for the child to repeat!

7. Language Simplified

Since the child is learning language by listening and interacting with caregivers, it is crucial that caregivers know how best to talk!

In my language simplified handout, I review:

• What language simplified is all about
• Why it is important
• How to use it on a daily basis

8. Asking Questions

Therapists and parents of late talkers don't want to ask too many questions of course, but there are times when they must. Therefore, parents must learn HOW to ask questions effectively. 

There must be:

• balance - you never want too many questions
• choices (great way to prompt!)

Parents must learn:

• why it is important to ask questions the new way
• support (who to prompt a child so he/she is successful)

9. Arrange The Environment!

Speech therapists naturally arrange the environment to ensure communication success and to create opportunities for communication learning. 

In my handout, caregivers will learn how to optimize

• toy storage
• snack storage
• organization

With these simple tricks, children will naturally be challenged to communicate to have their daily needs met.

10. Narrate The Day

Narrating the day is an easy way to expose children to the language that is meaningful to their lives.

The key is to "narrate the day" correctly.

Parents must learn how to narrate their day and how to map language onto their child's actions.

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