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Speech Sound Cue Cards
This set includes 24 core consonant cards, 3 R-controlled vowel cards, and 3 diphthong cards, each paired with a soft watercolor illustration and a simple, child-friendly cue. Perfect for therapy or home practice, they support consistent articulation learning in a calm, confidence-building way.
SLP Quick Reference Guide
Includes:
Phonological Process Elimination Chart – ages of suppression, clearly organized. ASHA align
Feeding & Swallowing Milestones – from birth to 12 months, ASHA and CDC-aligned.
Speech Sound Development (Crowe & McLeod, 2020) – updated consonant acquisition norms.
Common ICD-10 & CPT Codes – verified through ASHA for speech, language, voice, and feeding.
Minimal Pairs Cards Gliding L-W Initial Position
This interactive minimal pairs activity targets gliding of /l/ to /w/ in the initial word position, using high-quality watercolor illustrations to support speech perception and production. Students are presented with picture-supported phrases and must choose the correct minimal-pair target (e.g., late–wait, lock–walk, lake–wake, light–white).
Minimal Pairs Cards Stopping S-T Initial Position
This interactive minimal pairs activity targets stopping of /s/ to /t/ in the initial word position, using high-quality watercolor illustrations to support speech perception and production. Students are presented with picture-supported phrases and must choose the correct minimal-pair target (e.g., sun–ton, sail–tail, sight–tight, sue–two, sock–talk, sub–tub, sip–tip, sick–tick).
Minimal Pairs Cards Gliding R-W Initial Position
This interactive minimal pairs activity targets gliding of /r/ to /w/ in the initial word position, using high-quality watercolor illustrations to support speech perception and production. Students are presented with picture-supported phrases and must choose the correct minimal-pair target (e.g., ring–wing, rake–wake, rich–witch, run–one, read–weed, rock–walk, right–white).
Everyday Object Function Velcro Book
This Object Functions Velcro Book is a beautiful and developmentally intentional language resource designed for early learners, AAC users, and children working on vocabulary that builds independence. This booklet supports meaningful engagement with 12 everyday objects by separating the function (what we do with something) from the object (the item itself).
AAC Holiday Social Story – “I Can Bring My AAC Device Everywhere”
This gentle, child-friendly social story supports AAC users in learning that their device can go everywhere with them. Featuring soft, hand-drawn holiday illustrations, this story models device use across familiar routines—like being at home, visiting family, or taking part in seasonal activities.
Holiday Social Story – “I Can Choose How I Say Hello”
This gentle, neurodiversity-affirming social story helps children learn that they have full control over how they greet others—especially during busy holiday gatherings. Using warm, hand-drawn woodland illustrations and simple, empowering language, the story teaches boundaries, consent, and self-advocacy
Holiday Social Story – “Holidays Bring New Schedules”
This warm, comforting social story supports children who may feel overwhelmed by the changes that come with holiday routines. Using soft, hand-drawn illustrations and simple, validating language, this resource prepares children for new schedules, unfamiliar events, and emotional ups and downs during the holiday season.
“My Turn” Visual Short Story
This short, visual story helps little communicators see how “my turn” and “your turn” change — just like the ball moves from one friend to another.
This is perfect for supporting early pragmatic language, pronouns, and sharing moments in therapy or at home.
Pronoun Velcro Book
This Pronoun Book is a fun, interactive way to teach and practice pronouns in context. Students look at the picture and complete the sentence by filling in the correct pronoun (he, she, it, they). With engaging visuals and simple sentence frames, this activity supports grammar development, sentence building, and expressive language skills. Perfect for early learners, speech therapy sessions, and small groups.
Sequencing Activity Pack
This Sequencing Activity Pack helps students build essential step-by-step thinking, narrative skills, and functional language. Each activity includes clear picture cards that students place in the correct order (First, Next, Last) to complete everyday tasks and routines. Perfect for targeting sequencing, comprehension, and expressive language, these engaging visuals make learning both structured and fun. Ideal for individual therapy, small groups, or classroom practice.
Opposite Velcro Activity
This Opposite Velcro Activity makes learning interactive and fun without cutting. Students select a card from the picture bank and simply stick it onto the correct opposite on the matching page. With bright, realistic images, this activity is perfect for targeting comprehension, vocabulary, and concept development while keeping sessions organized and engaging.
Safari Adventure Powerpoint
Take your students on a Safari Adventure with this interactive PowerPoint! Learners get to explore the savanna and choose from a variety of animals like lions, zebras, elephants, and giraffes. This activity is perfect for targeting vocabulary, answering WH-questions, making choices, and building sentences—all while keeping therapy playful and engaging. Great for both individual and group sessions.
Safari I-Spy Coloring Sheet
This Safari I-Spy activity is a fun and interactive way to target receptive and expressive language skills. Students search for and identify different safari animals hidden across the page, supporting vocabulary development, attention to detail, and comprehension. Perfect to pair with the Safari Adventure PowerPoint for a complete themed lesson that keeps kids engaged and learning through play.
Safari Coloring Sheet
This Safari Coloring Sheet is the perfect extension to the Safari Adventure PowerPoint Activity. After students choose and explore animals during the interactive presentation, they can color their favorite safari animals to reinforce vocabulary, recall, and engagement. A fun and creative way to carry over learning, and add a hands-on element to speech and language sessions.
Interactive Pet Shop PowerPoint!
Bring therapy sessions to life with this interactive Pet Shop PowerPoint! Students can click or tap to choose their favorite furry friend, making practice highly engaging and personalized. Perfect for targeting speech and language goals, this activity encourages participation, vocabulary expansion, and expressive communication in a fun, play-based format.
Pet Shop Certificate
This is a Pet Shop Certificate designed to accompany your interactive Pet Shop activity. After students finish the main activity, you can present them with this custom certificate as a fun, motivational reward. It helps reinforce achievement and gives learners something tangible to celebrate!
Conversational Cue Cards
These Conversational Cue Cards are perfect for building social communication and conversation skills. Students can choose a topic like Food, Holidays, or Hobbies, then use the included starter questions (“What’s your favorite…?”, “Do you like…?”, etc.) to practice turn-taking, topic maintenance, and expressive language. A fun, interactive tool for therapy sessions, groups, or social skills practice.
Who” Questions Level 1
This “Who” Questions Level 1 activity is designed to help students practice answering basic who questions with simple visuals and multiple-choice options. Perfect for early learners or those working on comprehension, vocabulary, and WH-question skills, this activity supports engagement through clear pictures and functional question prompts.
Who” Questions Level 2
This “Who” Questions Level 2 activity helps students practice answering who questions with short sentences and visual support. By moving beyond simple choices, learners develop comprehension, grammar, and expressive language skills in context. Perfect for targeting WH-questions, building vocabulary, and strengthening sentence structure in therapy sessions.
What” Questions Level 1
This “What” Questions Level 1 activity is designed to help students build foundational WH-question skills. Using simple sentences and clear visuals, learners practice answering basic questions in a supportive format. Perfect for early learners, speech therapy sessions, or language enrichment, this resource strengthens comprehension, vocabulary, and expressive language skills.
When Questions
This “When” Questions activity helps students strengthen their ability to answer temporal WH-questions using clear visuals and relatable scenarios. By practicing questions like “When do you wake up?”, learners develop comprehension, sequencing, and expressive language skills. Perfect for targeting WH-questions, building functional communication, and supporting carryover in therapy sessions.
“Where” Questions Level 1
This “Where” Questions Level 1 activity introduces students to answering simple location-based WH-questions. With clear visuals and multiple-choice answers, prompts like “Where do you sleep?” help learners practice comprehension, vocabulary, and expressive language in an engaging way. Perfect for early learners, speech therapy, and language intervention sessions.
“Where” Questions Level 2
This “Where” Questions Level 2 activity helps students practice answering location-based WH-questions with engaging visuals and multiple-choice options. Prompts like “Where do birds build their nests?” support comprehension, vocabulary, and reasoning skills. Ideal for speech therapy sessions focused on WH-questions, language enrichment, and building expressive communication.
Why Questions
This “Why” Questions activity supports students in practicing reasoning and cause-and-effect thinking. With simple visuals and clear prompts like “Why do you drink water?”, learners build comprehension, expressive language, and problem-solving skills. Perfect for targeting WH-questions and encouraging deeper responses in therapy sessions.
Emotion Flashcards
These Emotion Flashcards are a clean, engaging, and highly functional resource designed to support emotion identification, expressive language, and social-emotional development in young learners. Using realistic child facial expressions, students are prompted to identify emotions through field-of-three choices and open-ended questions, allowing clinicians to easily scaffold up or down based on the child’s needs.
Emoji Inferencing Slides
Emoji Court is an engaging, discussion-based inferencing activity designed to strengthen higher-level language skills through visual reasoning and evidence-based thinking. Students are presented with sets of emojis and asked to make an inference about what happened, defend their reasoning with evidence, and consider alternative explanations—just like making a case in court. There is no single correct answer, encouraging flexible thinking and expressive language.
Turkey CAS Worksheet
This interactive, fall-themed activity helps students with Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) practice CV, CVC, and CVCV word shapes in a fun and engaging way! Students glue/tape on feathers with picture targets to build their turkey as they complete each trial — perfect for targeting motor planning during Thanksgiving sessions. Turkey is left black and white for the student to color in the rest!
R Articulation Activity
Get ready to race with this R Articulation Activity! Students move around the racetrack while practicing words with R in the initial position (e.g., red, run, rag). This fun, game-based approach keeps learners engaged while targeting accurate sound production, speech clarity, and repetition practice. Perfect for individual sessions, small groups, or at-home practice.
“WH” Mystery Powerpoint
Bring excitement into your speech room with this mystery lesson!
Students become detectives as they gather clues, question suspects, and use WH-questions (who, what, where, when, why) to solve the case of the missing golden whistle.
WH Mystery Guide
A student-friendly guide to “Who, What, Where, When, and Why” questions.
Use it as a visual reminder before starting WH-activities, or print and laminate for small-group use. Great to use with the mystery powerpoint!
Adult
Newspaper Voice Activity
Engage your clients with this fun and interactive voice therapy activity! Each page of the newsletter features three short news stories — but only one is true. Perfect for groups like Speak Out!, this activity encourages reading aloud, discussion, and critical thinking while keeping sessions lively and motivating. An answer key is included at the end for easy facilitation.
Semantic Feature Analysis (SFA)
This Semantic Feature Analysis (SFA) graphic organizer is a powerful tool for expanding vocabulary, word retrieval, and comprehension. Students name an item and then describe it across multiple features such as group, use, action, location, properties, and associations. Perfect for aphasia therapy, language intervention, and building rich semantic networks in both children and adults.
Everyday Items Crossword Puzzle
This Everyday Items Crossword Puzzle is designed to build vocabulary, problem-solving, and recall skills through familiar daily objects. With clues like “You use this to brush your teeth” or “You use this to unlock doors”, it’s especially effective for adults in speech therapy or cognitive-linguistic rehab. A functional and engaging activity for practicing everyday language and keeping therapy meaningful.
Room Categorization Velcro Book
This Sorting Activity helps clients strengthen categorization and functional vocabulary by deciding which items belong in specific rooms, like the bathroom, backyard, and kitchen. With real-life visuals, learners practice comprehension, expressive language, and reasoning skills.
Deduction Worksheet
This worksheet targets higher-level language, reasoning, and semantic organization through a “Which one does not belong?” task. Each line contains four items, with one word that differs in category, function, or semantic features. Clients must identify the outlier by circling it or naming it aloud.
Orientation Y/N Questions
This worksheet is designed to build a client’s strength in basic orientation to person, place, time, and general knowledge using simple yes/no questions. Items target awareness of the current environment (e.g., location, time of day), personal information, seasonal knowledge, and everyday facts. Questions are written in clear, concrete language to support clients with cognitive-communication needs, memory impairments, or reduced attention.
Daily Hobby Worksheet
Help your clients, students, or residents build routine awareness, expressive language, and self-advocacy skills with this simple daily hobby worksheet.
Perfect for:
• Adult rehab
• SNF cognitive-linguistic therap
• Executive functioning
Following Directions
This worksheet provides 1-step and 2-step direction-following tasks designed for individuals with limited mobility. All actions can be completed while seated and focus on facial movements, small gestures, and gentle upper-body motions. The activity targets auditory comprehension, working memory, processing speed, and functional direction-following in a highly accessible format.
Medical SLP Reference Guide
This Medical SLP Reference Guide is a clean, aesthetic, and clinically grounded quick-reference resource designed for graduate students, clinical fellows, and practicing medical SLPs. Perfect for studying, clinical prep, and confidence-building in medical settings. The guide breaks down complex medical information into easy-to-scan visual charts while maintaining professional accuracy and clarity.
Miscellaneous
Data Sheet
Streamline your therapy sessions with this easy-to-use Data Sheet template. Designed for speech-language pathologists and graduate clinicians, this tool helps you track session objectives, prompts, cues, and client independence levels all in one place. Perfect for documenting progress across therapy sessions, it provides a clear structure for consistent note-taking and data collection.
Take-Home Speech Sheet
This Take-Home Speech Sheet is a simple, effective way to keep parents informed and involved in their child’s progress. Therapists can quickly check off areas practiced (speech sounds, vocabulary, sentences, social skills, etc.), write in the day’s activity, add notes, and sign. Perfect for school or clinic use, it strengthens communication between home and therapy while providing families with clear updates.
Printable: Communication is Connection
Add a touch of warmth and positivity to your space with this retro-inspired printable that reminds us all: Communication is Connection. Perfect for your therapy room, study corner, or home office, this design pairs calming blue tones with playful bubble lettering and a cozy bear icon. A simple but powerful reminder that words bring us closer together. 🐻💙