Description

A Total Language Therapy Tool!

This innovative therapy tool allows children to create their own scenes while the clinician targets motor-speech coordination, receptive and expressive language, and early literacy skills.

Total language therapy tool. This playful, yet comprehensive therapy tool keeps children fully engaged while the clinician targets both speech and language goals. The accompanying manual describes how to reinforce motor-speech coordination and move beyond into receptive and expressive language development. Practice simple syllable shapes, increase vocabulary, build complete sentences, and teach vocabulary, prepositions, pronouns, following directions, and MORE! Includes 18 scene pieces, 48 character/object magnets, 45 cue cards, single piece stand and manual.

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"The puzzle is also a great tool to work on receptive language, following directions, auditory recognition, comprehension, retention and integration skills."

Target Audience

Ideal for young children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS), other severe speech sound disorders (SSD), and/or expressive language challenges.

Author

Nancy R. Kaufman, MA, CCC-SLP, is the owner and Director of the Kaufman Children's Center for Speech, Language, Sensory-Motor, and Social Connections, Inc. located in West Bloomfield, MI. Since 1979, Nancy has dedicated herself to establishing the Kaufman Speech to Language Protocol (K-SLP), a treatment approach to help children become effective vocal communicators. She serves on the Professional Advisory Board of the Childhood Apraxia of Speech Association of North America (CASANA) and is the Speech and Language Pathologist Consultant for the Parish School and Carruth Center in Houston, TX. Nancy was the recipient of the 2011 Distinguished Service Award from the Michigan Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and she received the 2010 Outstanding Alumni Award from Michigan State University College of Communication Arts & Sciences. The Kaufman Children's Center (KCC) received the Clinical Service Award from the Michigan Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Nancy is also an honoree of the Lawrence Technological University Leaders & Innovators program.

She is the author of the Kaufman Speech Praxis Test for Children, the K-SLP Treatment Kits for Children, the K-SLP Workout Book, the K-SLP Mutt Family Language Builder, the K-SLP Instructional DVD Training Program, and co-author of K&K Sign to Talk: Nouns and K&K Sign to Talk: Verbs. Nancy lectures nationally and internationally on the subject of childhood apraxia of speech and other speech sound disorders in children. Many specialists in the field of applied verbal behavior (AVB) have adopted the K-SLP for children with autism spectrum disorders. Families from around the United States and the world travel to the KCC to participate in intensive and specialized therapy programs. Nancy received her B.A. at Michigan State University and M.A. at Wayne State University, having been awarded a graduate assistantship. The KCC continues to grow and has earned a reputation for excellence, warmth, and successful outcomes. Nancy has three grown children and resides with her husband in West Bloomfield, Michigan.

Speaker Disclosure:

Employer — Kaufman Children's Center, West Bloomfield, MI. 

Financial — Author of treatment materials published by Northern Speech Services; receives royalty payments.

Financial — Author of treatment materials that are self-published; receives payments from Northern Speech Services to distribute.

Financial — Author of online CEU courses sponsored by Northern Speech; receives royalty payments.

Nonfinancial — Advisory Board: CASANA; receives no compensation as member of Professional Advisory Board.