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Children's Speech and Language Therapy Resources
Please click on the tabs below for work sheets and additional resources.
Parent Activities at Home
Speech Sounds
These are games to help children hear the difference between speech sounds.
Download a guide to playing the games here: Speech discrimination games.pdf [pdf] 207KB
Below you can watch some of the children we work with showing you how to play the games:
Phonics
These activities will support the phonics work you get from your child's school and are fun ways to work on reading and spelling without needing a pen and pencil!
Compound words.pdf [pdf] 233KB
letters and vowels.pdf [pdf] 182KB
Where in the word.pdf [pdf] 267KB
Barrier Activities
Barrier games are a great way to get children talking and help them to understand what information they need to include so you understand. Even better you can use your own toys to play! Here are some ideas using Duplo/Lego and Mr Potato Head!
Download pictures here: Duplo barrier.pdf[pdf] 367KB
and instructions for playing the duplo barrier game here Duplo instructions.pdf [pdf] 317KB
Mr Potato Head Barrier game.pdf[pdf] 281KB
Rhyme
Rhyme is a tricky skill for lots of children but it is also a really useful skill that can help children's literacy.
Download our guide to working on children's awareness of rhyme here: Raising awareness of rhyme 2020.pdf [pdf] 187KB
These are some fun games to try at home to introduce the concept of rhyme:
New picnic game.pdf [pdf] 331KB
Rhyme anchor chart 1.pdf [pdf] 153KB
Rhyming Clues game with adult cues.pdf [pdf] 1MB
Word Levels
Thinking about Key Word Levels is a structured way to work on children's understanding of words.
Download our guide to wrorking at Key Word Levels here: Key word Information.pdf [pdf] 469KB
Download lots of activiites to work on Key Word Levels with your own toys at home here: Key Word Level activities topic based.pdf [pdf] 514KB
2 key word level activities.pdf [pdf] 449KB
3 key word level activities.pdf [pdf] 465KB
Syllables
Teaching children to clap out words into individual syllables can really help their speech but is also really useful for spelling too.
Download our guide to raising children's awareness of syllables here: Syllable handout 2021.pdf [pdf] 757KB
Here are some games to try at home. You can use their toys such as toy animals or play food or use photos of topic words - anything that interests them!
syllable claps.pdf [pdf] 128KB
Language Concepts
These are some specific activities to teach children some of the tricky language concepts they need to understand instructions in the classroom and at home.
Time line vocabulary 2020.pdf [pdf] 146KB
Abstract Concepts.pdf [pdf] 672KB
This is a really useful activity to play with any new vocabualry to help children practise new words.
Semantic cue cards 2020.pdf [pdf] 620KB
Maths
The language of maths can be very challenging to understand for many children. For example, understanding that 'times' and 'multiply' mean the same thing and so do 'take away' and 'minus'. These are some activities to help children overcome some of the barriers language poses to solving maths problems:
Number word sorting.pdf [pdf] 145KB
Teen ty resource.pdf [pdf] 207KB
Transition resources
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Social Skills Resources
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Resources to help at home
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 Positional Advice sheet |
Key word levels
peech sounds - when to worry? Download our guide here:
Typical ages for developing English sounds 2020.pdf [pdf] 415KB
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Download a Signalong advice sheet here
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Listening
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Download Early Years Listening rule cue cards here |
Download School age Listening rule cue cards here |
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Download Stop/go signs here
Download emotion pictures to play 'who feels different?' here
Download our mini brain breaks here
Speech and Phonological Processing
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Syllable awarenss
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Initial sounds |
Initial sounds |
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Final sounds
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Final sounds
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S Blends S blend Minimal pairs sp b minimal pairs.pdf [pdf] 46KB sn n minimal pairs.pdf [pdf] 44KB sm m minimal pairs.pdf [pdf] 42KB sk g minimal pairs.pdf [pdf] 50KB sl l minimal pairs.pdf [pdf] 36KB st d minimal pairs.pdf [pdf] 59KB sw w minimal pairs.pdf [pdf] 43KB
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l blends
Final Consonant Minimal pairs |
Language Resources
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Vocabulary resources
5 ways to make a word stick 5 ways to sort vocabulary
Download vocabulary tips here Download SAY IT resource here
Download our word square here Download our syllable frame here
Download adverb charades here Download plan for my day here
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Download Time words to move a story on here
Download Roll a story here
Download Pronoun programme here
Download his/her pronoun pictures here
Sentence building pictures:
Levels of knowing a word.pdf [pdf] 149KB
Bookmark - Understanding Characters [pdf] 363KB
Bookmark To Support Narrative [pdf] 356KB
Comparatives 2024.pdf [pdf] 171KB
Comparatives Cracking The Code! [pdf] 159KB
Connective choice 2024.pdf [pdf] 137KB
Irregular Plural Families.pdf [pdf] 310KB
Star Wars Question Words [pdf] 310KB
Visual support for maths
Adults' use of Language
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What not to say to your reluctant speaker |
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5 ways to support reluctant talkers
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Communication TAs Resources
Worcestershire Communication TA - Autumn term 21
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Download the presentation here
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Download Looking Pairs here |
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Download Lilypads here |
Download What am i here
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Download Topic maintenance here |
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Worcestershire Communication TA - Summer term
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Download the presentation here |
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Worcestershire Communication TA - Spring term
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Download this term's presentation here
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Typical ages for developing English sounds
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Phonics foundations
musical instruments - Demo video 13 Compound words - Demo video 2 |
Syllables
Syllable sortting - Demo video 1 Syllable game - Demo video 23
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Sound discrimination
Download same different picture here Download segmentation tasks here Listening for sounds - Demo 28 Initial sound discrimination - Demo 10 Initial sounds EY - Demo 30 Listening for mistakes - initial - Demo 8 Listening for mistakes - final - Demo 11 Listening for correct version - Demo 33 Same different - Demo 34 & Demo 35 Where in the Word - Demo 36
Speech bubble phoneme frame CVC Speech bubble phoneme frame CV
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Rhyme
Picnic game - Demo 18 Semantic clues rhyme game - Demo 19 |
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What to do when you don't understand
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Wychavon EY communication TAs
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Money monster chest 
Summer term 2020
Download this term's presentation here
Download this term's update here
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English as an additional language resources
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