Kaufman Mutt Family Total Language Builder – 2nd Edition
Description
Playful, hands-on therapy tool to help children build receptive and expressive language skills.
This hands-on, playful therapy tool will help children practice speech motor coordination and move into expressive and receptive language skills while controlling for speech motor difficulty.
It is designed to hold attention, and the large format of this interactive puzzle allows children to manipulate the character and object pieces as they learn to formulate 2 and 3 word combinations. The target words included are the earliest and easiest phonemes/syllable shapes and are great for building receptive and expressive language skills.
Ages 3-10 years. Made in USA.
How It Works:
Cue cards direct the Mutt Family Characters into action! Students practice following directions as well as labeling the characters and object manipulatives. “Find Buddy and have him paint.”
Each puzzle piece targets a simple verb, i.e., “Pin”. Students place the character and object pieces onto the corresponding puzzle piece as they learn to formulate 2 and 3 word combinations. “Moppy Pin.” “Moppy Pin Tail.”
Includes familiar simple bisyllabic words from Kaufman Kit 1 for continued speech motor practice. The target verbs on the puzzle contain the earliest and easiest phonemes to produce /m, p, b, t, d, n, h/.
Control Level of Difficulty:
Control the level of difficulty by starting with a single puzzle piece (one verb). As the child’s language skills improve, additional puzzle pieces can be introduced giving the SLP flexibility to vary tasks and increase level of difficulty. The full puzzle features 18 scene pieces that interconnect into a 21” x 30” completed puzzle.
What's in the Box?
- 18 different puzzle pieces that connect into a 21” x 30” puzzle
- Each puzzle piece targets a simple verb
- 21 Mutt Family character manipulatives
- 27 object manipulatives
- 45 prompt cards
- Instructional manual
Age Range and Populations:
Teach expressive and receptive language skills for children ages 3-10 years who have apraxia of speech, developmental delays or struggle to speak.
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD - Small parts not for children under 3 years old.
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Therapy Targets:
Speech Motor Coordination Practice. Includes familiar simple bisyllabic words from Kaufman Kit 1 for continued speech motor practice. The target verbs on the puzzle contain the earliest and easiest phonemes to produce /m, p, b, t, d, n, h/.
Expressive Language Practice. Uses simple bisyllabic words as subjects to teach Noun-Verb-Object telegraphic utterances. Outlines 12 Expressive Language Workout Levels that introduce grammatical skills to build language.
Receptive Language Practice. Many children who struggle to speak have challenges processing spoken language. Use to target auditory recognition, processing, comprehension, retention and integration skills.
Early Literacy Practice. The Mutt Card Deck features simple directions to aid in transitioning children from visual matching to recognizing and reading words.
Speech Motor Practice
The Mutt Family puppies and friends were named with repetitive syllables with vowel change words (Bobby, Nonny, Poppy, etc), simple bisyllabics (Heidi, Paddy, Mona, Toby, etc), and some with simple consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words.
The featured verbs contain the earliest and easiest phonemes to produce /m,p,b,t,d,n,h/ giving children more opportunities for successful speech motor coordination.
Receptive Language Practice
Work on auditory recognition, processing, comprehension, retention, and integration skills with the Mutt Family puppies, object pieces, and puzzle scenes.
Early Literacy Practice
Transition children from visual matching to recognizing and reading words using the included cue cards featuring simple directions.
Expressive Language Practice
Teach two- and three-word formulations while slowly adding in the expressive language elements of syntax and morphology.
- Level 1: Labeling the Mutt Puppies & Object Pieces: Puppies: Heidi, Paddy, Betty, Moppy. Objects: ball, cookie, apple, etc.
- Level 2: Labeling the Mutt Puppies as Noun-Verb Phrase: Heidi hop, Buddy pop, Moppy pin.
- Level 3: Labeling the Mutt Puppies in a Noun-Verb-Object (N-V-O) format: Buddy bite apple. Moppy pin tail.
- Level 4: Labeling the actions in a present progressive format: Buddy is biting.
- Level 5: Labeling the actions with a third-person singular verb: Buddy bites or Buddy bites apple.
- Level 6: Labeling the actions with the past-tense auxiliary verb: Buddy was biting.
- Level 7: Labeling the actions adding the article plus object: Buddy is biting the apple.
- Level 8: Labeling the actions using a pronoun in place of the Mutt name: He is biting.
- Level 9: Labeling the actions adding a possessive pronoun: Buddy is biting his apple.
- Level 10: Labeling the actions using pronoun and possessive pronoun agreement: He is biting his apple.
- Level 11: Telling a story: This is Buddy. Buddy wants to bite. Buddy is biting. Buddy was biting.
- Level 12: Telling a story adding pronouns, possessive pronouns and the object: This is Buddy. He wants to bite his apple. He is biting his apple. He was biting his apple.
Kaufman Apraxia Therapy Progression:
Kaufman Apraxia Online Training:
Available is an optional 6-hour, in-depth online training course discussing the Kaufman Apraxia Methods. Offered for 0.6 ASHA CEUs and presented by international apraxia expert, Nancy Kaufman, MA, CCC-SLP.
The Kaufman Methods For Evaluation & Treatment Of Childhood Apraxia Of Speech
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What's Included
The Mutt Family Total Language Builder
- 18 different scenes that connect into a 21" x 30" puzzle
- 21 pieces featuring the Mutt Family characters and their friends
- 27 object pieces
- 45 prompt cards
- Instructional manual
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD - Small parts not for children under 3 years old. Made in the USA.
Includes everything you'll need to easily implement into your therapy sessions with minimal preparation time!
Target Audience
Ages 3 to 10
For SLPs to use in teaching expressive and receptive language skills for children ages 3-10 years who have apraxia of speech, developmental delays or struggle to speak.
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD - Small parts not for children under 3 years old.
Author
Since 1979, Nancy Kaufman, MA, CCC-SLP, has dedicated herself to establishing the Kaufman Speech to Language Protocol (K-SLP), a treatment approach to help children become effective vocal communicators. The K-SLP has evolved over the years to include the most current research in childhood apraxia of speech (CAS), motor learning, and applied behavior analysis (ABA), and its methods and materials are used by speech-language pathologists worldwide. In addition, many ABA specialists have adopted the K-SLP for children with autism spectrum disorders.
Nancy lectures locally, nationally, and internationally on the subject of CAS and other speech sound disorders in children. Families from around the country and the world travel to the Kaufman Children's Center for Speech, Language, Sensory-Motor, and Autism Treatment, Inc (KCC) in West Bloomfield, Michigan to participate in intensive, specialized therapy programs. The KCC continues to grow, offering renowned speech, language, occupational therapy, sensory integration, and applied behavior analysis (ABA) center and home-based autism programs.
Nancy served as a member of the Professional Advisory Council for Apraxia Kids for 10 years. Currently, she serves on the board of visitors of Wayne State University's Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute for Child and Family Development and is the speech-language pathologist consultant for the Parish School and Carruth Center in Houston, Texas, and Suburban Speech Center in Short Hills, New Jersey.
Nancy has been honored by both of her alma maters: she received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Wayne State University in 2015 and the Outstanding Alumni Award from Michigan State University in 2010. She was awarded the Michigan Speech-Language-Hearing Association (MSHA) Distinguished Service Award in 2011 and the West Bloomfield Township Chamber of Commerce Community Excellence Business Person of the Year Award in 2015. She was also recognized by the Lawrence Technological University Leaders & Innovators program. The KCC has received MSHA's Clinical Service Award and Corp! Magazine's Best of Michigan Business Award. Nancy has three grown children and resides with her husband in West Bloomfield, Michigan.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial — Nancy Kaufman is a presenter of CE seminars sponsored by Northern Speech Services; receives speaking fees.
Financial — Nancy Kaufman is a presenter of online CE courses sponsored by Northern Speech Services; receives royalty payments.
Financial — Nancy Kaufman is the Owner and Director of Kaufman Children's Center; ownership interests.
Financial — Nancy Kaufman is the author of treatment materials published by Northern Speech Services; receives royalty payments.
Nonfinancial — Nancy Kaufman has no relevant nonfinancial relationships to disclose.
Customer Reviews
"My favorite apraxia program is Kaufman and that it has the Mutt Family Workbook & Puzzle for further practice." – Vanessa A., SLP
"Kaufman is my staple. Having a variety of programs and skills in which to pull provides the best results for my students. The Kaufman program has a great range of materials besides the cards that can keep the child interested. I use the Workout Book and recently acquired the Mutt Family Puzzle. My students never lose interest, especially if I mix it up with mini breaks or rotate. Still the same target, but in a variety of structured activities." – Laura L., SLP
"This resource is also a great tool to work on receptive language, following directions, auditory recognition, comprehension, retention and integration skills." — SLP
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