Advance your clients to intelligible speech with this convenient, skillfully designed resource that has 300 photo and illustration cards, systematic stimulus hierarchies, and functional content. This step-by-step product lets you:
engage clients with true-to-life photos and illustrated scenes
choose words by phonetic complexity from VC and CV word forms to multisyllable words
use a systematic cueing hierarchy
reduce the language load for clients by using semantically-related words
teach functional phrases and sentences
There are 300, 5" x 7" cards organized around twelve themes. The target words within each theme/unit progress from VC and CV word forms to multisyllable words. Each theme/unit has:
5 pretest/posttest cards (60 total) –Establish a baseline and monitor progress with:
words of increasing length within the unit/theme
15 photo cards of individual items (180 total) –The back of each photo card has this cueing hierarchy:
wh- question
sentence completion
phonemic cue
delayed model
direct model
4 illustrated scene cards (48 total) –Each scene card targets five semantically-related words ranging from simple phonetic forms (soap) to more complex two-syllable or multisyllabic words (washcloth, shaving cream). Some words are repeated from the photo cards and other words are new but semantically related to the unit. Use the cards to build intelligible connected speech and bridge to conversational speech. The back of each scene card has these stimulus cues:
