Over 180 speech therapy worksheets, activities, and flash cards for speech-language pathologists, teachers, and parents. Many of them are free! I created these materials to use with my clients, and I hope you can use them too.
Showing posts with label expressive language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label expressive language. Show all posts
Expressive Language: Formulating Questions
I made this worksheet to work on formulating questions with two given words (a question word and a noun). I made a similar worksheet a few months ago, but I have kids who are still working on this goal!
Grammar: Formulating Sentences with Irregular Verb Forms
I made this simple worksheet for one of my clients who has trouble with irregular past tense verbs! The irregular past tense verb form is already given, so the client just has to use it in a sentence. A step harder would be to give the child the present tense verb form and have him convert it to past tense before writing the sentence.
Expressive Language - Formulating Questions
This worksheet targets asking grammatically correct, semantically appropriate questions!
Expressive Language: Describing Objects
I use this worksheet along with a describing cue sheet if needed. The cue sheet includes questions such as: What category is it in? What do you do with it? What does it look like?
Expressive Language: Comparing and Contrasting Worksheet
This worksheet has 3 pages (14 questions) of comparing and contrasting prompts with written cues reminding the student to use the terms "same" and "different".
Expressive Language: Top Ten Easy Personal Questions
I have many kids who can't answer personal questions (even when they know the answer). With some of my clients who are less intelligible, I am working on answering these questions using an AAC device such as a DynaVox or an iPad with Proloquo2Go. With others who are not motivated to talk, I am simply working on getting a response the first time I ask the question. With others, I simply want them to be able to recite their last name and phone number in case of an emergency. I make it a goal for my kids to answer at least 8 out of these 10 questions within 5 seconds, the first time they are asked. I also teach my kids to say something like "Hmm" or "Let me think" if they need additional time. When they give a blank stare instead, it's unclear whether they understood the question, whether they are still thinking, or whether they are ignoring me. Do you have any other "must know" personal questions that you want your kids to be able to answer?
Expressive Language: Asking "Why Not" Questions
This is a particularly hard goal for some of my clients. It involves not only formulating a semantically appropriate, grammatically correct question from a prompt, but also using negation concepts. That's a lot of work going into forming one question!
Expressive Language: Asking "Where" Questions
This worksheet is designed to work on formulating grammatically and pragmatically appropriate "where" questions. This is similar to a worksheet I posted working on formulating "when" questions.
Expressive Language: Absurdities in Sentences
I use semantic absurdities in therapy to teach kids to use their reasoning/problem solving skills and expressive language skills to identify and explain the problem with a picture or sentence. Here are 10 sentences with semantic absurdities in them.
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Expressive Language: What Would You Text?
One of my high school aged clients just got his first cell phone. I would love to help him learn how to communicate basic messages (comments and questions) using text messages. I made this worksheet to role play a few situations when he might want or need to send a text message to a familiar adult or to a peer. I love working in a private clinic because I have the freedom to work on functional communication goals like this!
Expressive Language: Formulating Questions
If you haven't noticed, I make a lot of materials for working on asking questions. So many of my kids have trouble with formulating grammatically correct, semantically and pragmatically appropriate questions. I made this worksheet to work on asking questions when given a word to use in the question. You could also use noun/adjective flash cards, and then a set of "types of questions" flash cards, and have the child draw one of each... might be more fun and interactive than a "boring worksheet"!
Expressive Language: Formulating Sentences
I made this worksheet for my client who is working on formulating sentences when given two words to use in the sentence. Nothing fancy, but great to send home as homework.
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Expressive Language: Comparing and Contrasting
I made this free PowerPoint presentation for one of my clients who is working on describing the similarities and differences between two items. I usually give a visual cue card that helps him formulate sentences. The cue card says "They are the same because ________, but they are different because one of them _______, but the other one _______."
You could also print these 2 or 4 per page and make flash cards with them.
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You could also print these 2 or 4 per page and make flash cards with them.
Expressive Language: Function, Feature, and Class Cloze Phrases
I made this list for a client who is working on filling in the blanks in cloze phrases. First we worked on receptive identification of objects by function, feature, and class, and then we started addressing the same skill expressively. This particular client has very limited expressive language, but he is able to verbally fill in these types of blanks, and he shows tremendous pride when he answers these correctly. I love my clients!
Yes, I know that there are not an even number of items in each group... someday I'll fix that.
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Yes, I know that there are not an even number of items in each group... someday I'll fix that.
Expressive Language: Asking "When" Questions with Irregular Verbs
Some of my clients have trouble formulating questions, especially when using irregular verbs. I created this worksheet to send home with those kids!
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