Resources

Websites

• ASHA – American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
• FLASHA – Florida Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists
• Autism Navigator – A great resources for parents and professionals on Autism in toddlers. Checklist 16 by 16 presents the early signs of autism
• Beckman Oral Motor – Information about therapy to address oral motor concerns
• Social Thinking – Resources, training and material for kids with social skills deficiencies
• www.funlogy.com – Language activities
• www.kidcompanions.com – Information on various oral sensory tools for children
•  www.signingtime.com – Program created for children learning how to use signs as a means to communication
•  www.autismspeaks.org – Advocacy organization sponsoring autism research and organizing various events to fund research and increase awareness about autism
•  www.spdfoundation.net – Research, education and awareness about sensory processing disorder
• www.thesensoryspectrum.com – Resourceful Blog on sensory processing disorder
• www.apraxia-kids.org – Research, education and awareness about childhood apraxia
• Https://www.cerebralpalsyguide.com/ – Helping Children with Cerebral Palsy

Articles

• Language Switching may give bilingual children problem-solving boost
• Making Sense of Sensory Processing
• 10 Early signs and symptoms for childhood apraxia of speech
• What does spd feel like
• Role positive reinforcement in parenting
• How do you keep your child’s mouth in shape from birth?
• Multilingual life non native speaker
• Bilingual advantage aging brain
• Becoming Bilingual
• 5 tips – help kids chew everything

Theraspeech Favorite Books

Social skills

• Emily’s Everyday Manners, by Cindy Post Senning and Peggy Post

Emotions/feelings

• How Are You Peeling, by Saxton Freeman
• Today I Feel Silly, by Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell
• The Way I Feel, by Janan Cain
• Wilma Jean Worry Machine, by Julia Cook and Anita DuFalla
• I Love You to The Moon and Back, Amelia Hepworth (author) and Tim Warnes (illustrator)
• Llama, Llama Mad at Mama, by Anna Dewdney

Inferencing

• Flotsam, David Weisner

Labelling/Sequencing/Recalling

• The Very Hungry Caterpillar, By Eric Carle
• Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See, by Eric Carle
• Pete The Cat, I Love My White Shoes, by James Dean and Eric Litwin
• The Little Old Lady Who Wasn’t Afraid of Anything, by Linda D. Williams

Sound production

• If You Give A Mouse A Cookie, by Laura Joffe Numeroff
• If you give A Pig A Pancake, by Laura Joffe Numeroff
• Who Said Moo? by Harriet Ziefert
• Moo Baa LaLaLa, by Sandra Boynton

Books for Parents

• Carly’s Voice, by Arthur Fleischman
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night, by Mark Haddon
• Thinking in Pictures, by Temple Grandin
• The Goodenoughs Get in Synch, by Carol Kranowitz
• The Autistic Brain: Helping Different Kinds of Mind Set, by Temple Brandon
• Building Social Relationships, by Scott Bellini
• Sensational Kids: Hope and Help for Children with Sensory Processing Disorder, by Lucy Jane Miller
• The Out-of-Synch Child, by Carol Kranowitz
• No More Meltdowns, by Jed Baker