NOVEMBER HAS 9 FREEBIES , NEW VIDEOS & APRAXIA PRESENTATION IN DEC!
Hi All! Here are my 9 November monthly FREEBIES and 3 new Apraxia videos. I have a new monthly calendar for November! Trish and I just published our newest video (#3) Pairing predictable books with toys! We never have enough toys, it seems!
It’s been an interesting October……. I just had Lasik eye surgery….so nice to see again!
SCROLL DOWN TO MY FREEBIE SECTION AND CLICK ON NOVEMBER FUN PAGES OR CLICK ON IMAGE!
Monthly Celebrations are Adopt a Pet, Be Thankful-Thanksgiving
Predictable Books Facebook Group has 2 Admins! Trish & I would love to hear from you!
We published 3 ZOOM VIDEO CHATS so far: MY TURN YOUR TURN ADAPTED PREDICTABLE BOOK TALK!
1. 10 REASONS WHY ADAPTED PREDICTABLE BOOKS ARE MAGICAL
2. 10 WAYS TO ADAPT A BOOK YOU ALREADY HAVE
3. 10 WAYS TO PAIR TOYS AND BOOKS
Please share this link, Predictable Books with your friends! This group is dedicated to sharing, discussing, and discovering predictable books—those magical, repetitive, patterned stories that boost motor planning, confidence, and participation in therapy and at home. Here you’ll find: lists of the best predictable books for SSD & apraxia….with your input!! Ideas for therapy activities, extension tasks, and adaptations
FOR ALL MY SPEECHIES WHO WORK WITH STUDENTS EXHIBITING MOTOR SPEECH DISORDERS-APRAXIA-SSD - I just created 2 new videos to check out: WHAT IS APRAXIA? (I compare it to learning a sport) and INFORMAL APRAXIA ASSESSMENT - WHAT CAN YOU LEARN THROUGH PLAY? Hope you have the opportunity to watch. Would love your feedback!
CHECK OUT 3 NEW VIDEOS ABOUT THE SPEECH MOTOR BLOCKS:
Ricki’s Speech Motor Blocks - connect all the blocks! I’m presenting an online workshop for Apraxia International on December 15!
My MOTOR SPEECH BLOCKS APPROACH has been a passionate project of mine for 50 years since I first created The Apraxia CV-CVCV Kit in 1980 (242 pics). It worked then and it continues to successfully help my students, with little tweeks here and there. Every child is unique! My new set has 450 mini pictures which is a supplement to the original set. Every effort has been made to keep the vocabulary simple and functional for children exhibiting a motor speech disorder. I am sharing my first student who benefited from this set in 1980 (first 2 pics on left) and a few samples in the set! Ever since I have been an SLP, my love for books and toys (especially magnet blocks) continues to grow and incorporated into many sessions. I still can’t resist buying toys! I love using magnet blocks with this set - you can attach pics to the blocks and kids can “snap” them together. Click on image for link to RICKI’S SPEECH MOTOR BLOCKS. Coming soon will be a Part #2 - Mini CVC, Multisyllables and Clusters. The CVC-VC Apraxia Set (62 pages) is on TPT too!
02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (European Time) - 9:30am EST. United States
Building Multisensory Play in Apraxia Therapy with Favorite Toys and Games
Ricki will demonstrate her Motor Speech Block Strategies. After 50 years of experience as an SLP, Ricki Block-SLP, specializes in Apraxia and SSD. She brings a practical, hands-on approach to Apraxia therapy that puts engaging PURPOSEFUL PLAY to work. She owned a specialty toy store for 22 years. Ricki will demonstrate how toys, games, and adapted predictable books can provide meaningful opportunities for Principles of Motor learning, modeling, purposeful repetition and functional communication while incorporating multisensory cues. Speech motor techniques and thoughtful target selection for CV, VC, CVCV, words will be provided utilizing activities which keep children motivated. Suggested follow through ideas are included for families. You may already have the materials you need.....learn how they can become powerful tools for children with Apraxia. Bring your toy and game ideas and questions too!
DR. PEGGY EARNEST will be speaking as well - her topic will be Down Syndrome - Peggy has a PhD from the University of CT. She has over 25 years of experience in improving the speech and communication skills of nonverbal, minimally verbal and highly unintelligible pediatric patients. She believes that speech and language therapy plans should be highly individualized and that her job is to treat the whole child. Family involvement and collaboration are of the utmost importance to a child’s progress in therapy.
Peggy has a specialty in treating motor speech disorders, which include dysarthria of speech, childhood apraxia of speech and motor speech delays. She also has a special interest in treating speech sound disorders using various techniques, including ultrasound biofeedback.
SPEECH MOMENTS - Getting my second Lasik surgery this week! After the first surgery I realized I haven’t been able to see for 2 years! No wonder my pickleball game went downhill! It’s a 4 week recovery time so no sports! I can walk though. I haven’t missed any sessions with my students either. We have been enjoying Halloween windups, What’s in the Box story, Smelly Socks game (great for S blends), Old Lady Swallowed Leaves and we made an Old Lady Puppet! I cut out the mouth and stomach and added a zip lock back!
Check out 25 Rhymes For Every Season and FOLD N GO ARTICULATION BUNDLE ALL YEAR LONG . Click Here for short video to show how the FOLD N GO works. Pics are also awesome to use with FEED ME activities with Burping Bobby, Pop the Pig, Nuby monster, DIY tissue box, etc.
Please feel free to email me any time at ricki@preschoolspeechieplus.com
Enjoy! Ricki
FREEBIES BELOW
All FREE RESOURCES are on my website in the PS+ Store or on TPT. I hope you find them useful! If there are other resources or checklists you are looking for, I am happy to add more to my website!. Check out TPT andMY RESOURCES for practically any checklist you may need.If you would like a PDF with links please email me at ricki@preschoolspeechieplus.com . (FYI adding more than 1 item to your cart can be a little tricky - when you add first free item, after you click on purchase, arrow back to add another item…it will say “adding”. You can keep adding product this way. When you click on continue, it will take you to checkout.)
ADDING ITEMS TO THE SHOPPING CART JUST GOT EASIER! I have been waiting for this update. You can now click, add to the cart or check out.
BELOW ARE SEASONAL ITEMS YOU MAY LIKE - CLICK ON IMAGE TO CHECK OUT PREVIEWS!
ENJOY!! Ricki