Before you refer, check out:
- Universal SLP strategies and try a few ideas
Talk Tips
Resources to try with your students
Speech Tips
- Click here for Articulation Tips and find out how you can help children articulate (make speech sounds).
Speech Sounds Headbands, What to do when you don’t understand?, Pre-requisites for working on a sound, Building speech sound awareness, Vowels, General Practice Tips, Ways to Promote Use of Speech Sounds Everywhere, Working on Speech over the Summer !
Speech Sounds: How to Say Them
*Please be mindful of cultural dialects. Contact an SLP through Office Hours if you are unsure whether a speech pattern is a dialect or error.
- NEW VIDEO (Uploaded April 1, 2021) – Practicing the G sound (video link)
- NEW (Uploaded April 1, 2021) – G sound poster (link)
- Practicing the SH sound (video link)
- SH sound poster (link)
- Practicing L-blends (video link)
- L-blend sound poster (link)
- Practicing the F sound (video link)
- F sound poster (link)
- Practicing the K sound (video link )
- K sound poster (link)
- Practicing S-blends (video link)
- S-blends sound poster (link)
- Practicing the R sound (video link)
- R sound poster (link)
- Practicing the S sound (video link)
- S sound poster (link)
- Practicing the TH sound (video link)
- TH sound poster (link)
- Practicing the L sound (video link)
- L sound poster (link)
Speech Sounds: Activities to Practice
*Tips for finding pictures for speech sound practice; Google image search with key words: Initial, medial, final (speech sound) cards.
- Practicing Speech without Cards (video link)
- Physical Movement Activities (video link)
- Speech Sound Scavenger Hunt (video link)
- Strategies for the Classroom #2 (video link)
- Using Books (video link)
- Book List by Speech Sound (link)
- Strategies for the Classroom (video link)
- Word of the Week (video link)
- Lucky Duck / Lucky Card (video link)
- What’s Missing (video link)
Language Tips
- Talk Box from Alberta Human Services is a resource for parents to help create language-rich environments at home, in the park, at the mall, or anywhere.