July 23, 2012

Materials Monday - Fluency Friend

For Materials Monday, I am uploading a fluency activity. I (and a partner) created this activity in my fluency class while in graduate school, and I figure I should share it. I created it for younger students, but it would be easy to use with older students who need more awareness of their articulators.

Fluency Friend


The free download includes the person cut out, the speech helpers, and an instruction sheet on ways to use this activity with your students.

See below for the instructions:


This is what the final product should look like (see below). Encourage your students to draw a face on their person and also name their person!


Home Speech Home also has a great free e-book that you can download. It includes pages that introduce each speech helper as well as how to use each speech helper when speaking, a colored page with all of the speech helpers on it, and also a color by numbers activity at the end. I would highly recommend downloading this free e-book if you are going to be introducing speech helpers to your students: Home Speech Home - Speech Helpers

I did use this activity with one of my clients during an internship. He really enjoyed creating is own friend, and we even used his friend while working on some articulation goals. I would tell my client to put his tongue in a specific area in his mouth, and he would point to his friend and ask "like this?". He really enjoyed the activity. Not every student will enjoy it, but you might find that it works really well for some of your students.

Enjoy!

Free Downloads:
Person
Speech Helpers Activity


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  1. I do something similar every year with my Kindergarten/1st grade SDC students. We trace their own upper body. Then as I introduce each speech helper I have them put their lungs, larynx, nose, eyes, ears, mouth tongue, teeth etc. on their bodies. It is a hit and helps them understand the anatomy and when they are older I hear "Remember we use our ----- for-----". Last year the SDC teacher used them on a bulletin board and the kids loved it. We finished up by Open House and the kids taped their bodies to their chairs. A creative aide had them add yarn hair SO CUTE.
    (I'm an SLP caseload K-8the with 2 SDC classes)

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