Introducing Boom Cards
We are really excited to be introducing Boom Cards to our range of products. Like all of our products, our Boom Cards resources have been used in the real world with our clients. We’ve had excellent results in using these online, interactive products especially as we have modified our practice to be 100% online in response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) situation.
With more Boom Cards on the way, we already have products developed for:
- Expressive Verbs
- Receptive Verbs
- Building Vocabulary
- Minimal Pairs
- Phonemic Awareness
- Prepositions
- Rhyming
Check out our Boom Cards range on the Boom Cards shop.
ABOUT SPEECH CONCEPTS
Speech Therapist, Speech and Language Therapist, SLP, Speech Pathologist – we call ourselves by many names. Regardless of the title we use, the one constant is that we all want the best outcomes for our clients and families. This presents two challenges. Finding the right resource for each client can be difficult but there is never enough time to create your own resources in a jam-packed day.
Just like you, I am a busy speech pathologist always on the look out for fun and innovative resources to maximise the outcomes from my sessions. Finding resources which are relevant, cost-effective, and engaging can take as long as creating one from scratch. So, over the years I found that I was making more and more resources myself. I started Speech Concepts as a way to share the resources I was developing. The range of practical resources have all been tested in the real world, and could be just the thing you have been looking for.
Check out our fun speech therapy resources for your clinic, and don’t forget to tell us if there is something you would like us to develop.
SHOP OUR RESOURCES
SPEECH
We have several sets of Speech Resources to help you harness the power of working through the articulation hierarchy…learn more
ASSESSMENT
Targetted intervention comes from a thorough and comprehensive assessment.
BLANKS QUESTIONS
Blanks questions are one way to encourage oral language development…learn more
TIME TO CELEBRATE
Whether it is Christmas, Easter or Valentines Day it is a great chance to change…learn more
EXPRESSIVE AND RECEPTIVE LANGUAGE
Language is huge! Over the coming months activities will be added to support your therapy…learn more
PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS
Phonological Awareness (phonemic awareness) refers to an understanding of the sound structure of language…learn more
SOCIAL SKILLS
Social awareness is something which needs to occur whenever we are in the presence of others…learn more
VOCABULARY
Vocabulary size is the most important factor impacting upon the ability of school-age children…learn more
SPEECH CONCEPTS BLOG
Kmart Love
By now if you follow me on Instagram you know that I am a Kmart tragic. I can’t get enough of their affordable and sturdy clinic room supplies. My private practice with 20 Speechies, 10 OTs and 5 locations means that we are constantly on the look out for...
Compound Words are my favourite!
Compound words are my favourite word set to practice phonemic awareness skills of segmentation blending and manipulation. They also highlight the need for strong language skills so that children can separate the meaning of words into word segments. So, it's no...
Literacy Journey
My private practice is involved in a fantastic project. We are working with Prep classrooms and their feeder Preschool classrooms to develop Oral Language and Phonemic Awareness skills for the outcome of increased literacy skills in grade two. Speech pathologists,...
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Have you seen this hilarious headline card game? You are given cards with words on them, each with a point value. When it`s your turn, construct the headline or a story to earn points! i love to use this game to target sentence construction. It`s open-ended but with some structure so that all can succeed. If you want a harder challenge I add in conjunctions.
Snail and Whale by Julia Donaldsen
This book is great for working on:
adjectives
describing narrative
sequencing
narrative
Vocabulary ocean animals
rhyming
speech sounds - /l/ word-final positions -snail, whale, sail school pool cool. TrailS
Speech sounds - /s/ blends snail, whale, sail school pool cool. Vocabulary ocean animals
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Pig the Fibber is a great read. All the pig books have lots of humour. this one explores with children about what might happen when we tell lies. The rhyming text and great illustrations keep children engaged This story can be used to target simple predicting - what might happen next?) and inferencing . there are lots of great vocabulary (tier 2) to explore as well as many language concepts.
📌 🧲 🔲 Get creative with Melissa and Doug magnetic pieces! 🧲 🔲 Grab a magnetic board and magnetic pieces for a 💪🏼 flexible resource to support many goals 🤔 Buy two of everything and you have a 🛡 barrier game ready to go 🤩
Here I have paired the magnets with some target cards. We produced our target before using the piece to make a scene.
Piranhas Don’t Eat Bananas is a fun and cheeky rhyming book. I love the vocabulary and rhyme in this book; it will surely engage everyone. This is a great book to target vocabulary - body parts, talking about
differences and similarities and making inferences. If working on articulation - there are a range bilabial words to target.
The planning is done for you!
Blanks questions are one way to encourage oral language development. In a play-based curriculum such as in preschool or kindergarten, Blanks questions help encourage rich oral language experiences (role play, imaginative play). These “levels of questioning” were developed by Blank, Rose and Berlin (1978). The questions move from concrete to abstract. Understanding the complexity of questions can help in simplifying the language or challenge language skills. Children need to understand and respond to all these levels of questions to function easily when they move to more formal learning within a school setting. Blanks questions are a fantastic way to build and develop both expressive and receptive language skills. They are great for mixed ability groups, as the same resource can be used with different levelled questions targeted according to ability. This resource contains 18 scenes with questions
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Diary of a Wombat is a great book. It’s brief, simple text and hilarious illustrations encourage children to make inferences about the story. Children enjoy comparing Mothball’s point of view with what the humans probably thought about all of Mothball’s antics. Diary of a Wombat is written in past tense and contains repetition of irregular past tense verbs, such as ate, slept and dug.
It is a great book for working on tense markers and inference.
Real photos!! This resource provides a visual structure to produce awesome sentences.
Word Order supports the development of 15 different sentence structures. 282 cards with specifically chosen photos complete with sentence prompts to guide your student’s development. The work has been done for you. The resource provides a printable and no print option. If printing I suggest you laminate and ring bind for ease of use and longevity.If using the no print option load or save on to your device. An answer key is provided as a starting point. Be creative there are loads of sentences to be created.
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Have you seen this hilarious headline card game? You are given cards with words on them, each with a point value. When it`s your turn, construct the headline or a story to earn points! i love to use this game to target sentence construction. It`s open-ended but with some structure so that all can succeed. If you want a harder challenge I add in conjunctions.
Book Share Tuesday
Love this book from Lauren Child
It`s a lift the flap book. Great for sentences, And who doesn`t love Lola.
Great for
Articulation – s/z Sizzles
Questions – what are you?
Prepositions in, over, under, behind
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This is one of my favourite resources - it works a treat!
Word Order supports the development of 15 different sentence structures. 282 cards with specifically chosen photos complete with sentence prompts to guide your student’s development. The work has been done for you. The resource provides a printable and no print option. If printing I suggest you laminate and ring bind for ease of use and longevity.If using the no print option load or save on to your device. An answer key is provided as a starting point. Be creative there are loads of sentences to be created.
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