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Aug 2024
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Communicate & Connect | A Guide Early In...

Megan Peveto M.S. CCC-SLP
About this episode

Several months ago I put out a brand new resource into the world for SLP Early Intervention and speech therapy for toddlers. Today I wanted to take you on a personal tour of this handbook and tell you all about what's inside!

 Here's the story behind Communicate & Connect, a guide for early intervention and speech therapy.

This SLP Early Intervention handbook is perfect for your early intervention speech and language caseload! Backed by research, each topic includes handouts that can be used as a quick reference for SLPs or printed handouts to be shared with parents and caregivers!

This includes information & milestones on a variety of developmental subjects, including:

  • Prelinguistic Skills: 11 prelinguistic skills are listed individually with examples of ways to encourage development for each
  • Communication Development/Methods of Communication
  • Types of AAC
  • Language Development & Language Milestones
  • Late Talkers & Language Explosion
  • Browns Morphemes
  • MLU
  • Taking a Language Sample
  • Language Milestone Charts and Developmental Toys for each age group
  • Pragmatic Language [social skills] and Development Milestones
  • Gestures: development and ways to encourage the skills
  • 16 before 16 Gesture Development
  • Fine Motor Development
  • Fine Motor Activities
  • Literacy Milestones and Development
  • Phrases of Literacy Development
  • Behaviors & Communication
  • Functions of Behavior
  • Language Development Toys
  • Books for Language Development (and literacy skills!)
  • Handouts for Parents, Caregivers, & Therapists
  • Evidence-based information for therapists

 

You'll also gain access to FREE resources you can immediately use with your caseload: communication core boards, visuals for: language expansion, making request, asking questions, answering questions, and using descriptions. Additionally, you get printable handouts to encourage language and communication carry-over. 

Here's what you can expect to see included in the future:

  • Speech Development (coming up next!)
  • Early Intervention Evaluation for Speech and Language
  • Early Intervention Goals for Speech Therapy/Monitoring Progress
  • Imitation Development
  • Attention Development
  • Play Development
  • Social Stories & Visual Communication [Early Intervention AAC]
  • Anything Can Be Therapy: incorporating language, communication, and speech in daily activities.

There are 2 places you can find the handbook: 
my TPT store, The SLP Next Door

 www.theslpnextdoor.com/handbook

 

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