Speech

Teaching material

Books and games

Narrative

  • Storyboards, storyboards 2 (simple and fun resource to help children with language and communication difficulties develop narrative skills)
  • Narrative Intervention Programme (improve the understanding and telling of stories in secondary school students and young adults)
  • Story Starters Colorcards (30 cards to stimulate narrative)
  • Decades Discussion Cards (40 photographic cards to introduce, remind and inform about people, places and events of the 1950s and 60s)
  • The Story Maker Motivator (stimulating creative writing and thinking resource book for secondary school students)
  • The Story Maker (innovative handbook designed for children aged 4-11 years to write creatively)
  • Story Card Narrative (48 cards to develop speaking and listening skills)

Speaking and listening

  • Developing baseline communication skills (practical resource aimed at fostering personal, social and emotional development, and promoting language and literacy skills)
  • Speaking, Listening and Understanding (collection of graded games and activities designed to foster speaking, listening and understanding skills of children aged from 5-7)
  • Understanding and Using Spoken Language (games for 7-9 years old)
  • Speaking English : Asking and Answering (ESL cards) Ages 13+
  • The Sourcebook of Practical Communication (programme for conversational practice & functional communication therapy) Age 6+
  • Vocabulary Enrichment Programme (enhance understanding and use of vocabulary in secondary school students and young adults)
  • Riddles, Rhyme and Alliteration (practical resource with listening exercises based on phonics) Ages 4-7
  • Fun with Sounds (game to encourage production of specific speech sounds and to develop vocabulary) Ages 4+

Games for talking

  • Top 5
  • What Do You Mean?
  • Let's Draw
  • Let's Mime
  • Let's Talk: Assertiveness
  • Let's Talk: Feelings
  • Let's Talk: Social Skills
  • Let's Talk!

Talkabout series

  • talkabout for children 1
  • Talkabout for Children 2
  • Talkabout Board Game
  • Talkabout Posters
  • Talkabout DVD
  • Talkabout for Teenagers
  • Talkabout Relationships

Language and communication

  • Communication Development Profile (provides a clear descriptive breakdown of 5 key areas of language and communication development from birth to the development and use of grammatical sentences) Age 0-5+
  • School Start (aimed at developing language and sound awareness) Age 4-6
  • Achieving Speech and Language Targets (essential teaching tool for children who have significant language delay and who are in their first year at school) Ages 4-5
  • The Strands of Speech and Language Therapy (a therapy plan for Neurorehabilitation)
  • Developing Language Concepts (programme to help with specific language concepts such as amount, colour, size, time and shape) Ages 5+
  • Working with Children's Language (covers early language skills, attention control, listening skills, the role of play, the development of comprehension, perception and the acquisition of expressive language) Ages 3+
  • Short-Term Memory Difficulties in Children (provides a complete programme of ideas for developing a child's short-term memory skills) Ages 7-11
  • Language for Thinking (helps develop children's language from the concrete to the abstract) Ages 4-12+
  • Social Communication Difficulties Resource Pack (suggests intervention)
  • Strategies related to specific areas of communication) All ages
  • Not Just Talking (identifying non-verbal communication difficulties) All ages
  • Language for Living (fosters both the skills underlying communication such as body language and awareness of others , and aspects of spoken language itself) Ages 4+
  • The Brain Game! (the vocabulary and word finding game) Board game Ages 5+

Speech and language disorders

  • Lemon & Lime Library (an articulation screen and resource pack) Ages 3+
  • The Selective Mutism Resource Manual (emphasises practical assessment and treatment on this rare condition)
  • My Friend Daniel Doesn't Talk (storybook for children aged 4-8 about a boy who is selectively mute)
  • Practical Intervention for Cleft Palate Speech (flexible therapy ideas) All Ages
  • Children's Phonology Sourcebook (for use with young speech-disordered children) Ages 3-10+
  • The Dysfluency Resource Book (comprehensive resource book for treating adults who stammer) Adults
  • Practical Intervention for Early Childhood Stammering (detailed step-by-step guide) Ages 3+
  • Working With Dysfluent Children (practical approach to assessment and therapy) Ages 3-16
  • Working with Voice Disorders (designed for adults)
  • VIP: Voice Impact Profile (user-friendly, point-in-time assessment tool) Ages 5+
  • Working with Children's Voice Disorders (practical advice on the nature of children's voice problems) Ages 0-16

APHASIA

  • VASES : Visual Analogue Self-Esteem Scale (self-esteem measure for people with communication impairment) Adult
  • Aphasia Screening Test (AST) (assessment for adults with acquired aphasia) Adult
  • Sourcebook for Assessing & Maintaining Communication (contains oromotor exercises, articulation sheets, language assessments and screens, AAC screen, questionnaires, breathing and voice parameters) Adult
  • Sourcebook for Adults with Profound Communication (for clients who have limited motor control, with a reliance on a yes/no and /or eye pointing) Adult
  • Functional Communication Therapy Planner – FCTP (provides a structure to develop, administer and evaluate aphasia therapy) Adult
  • Inpatient Functional Communication Interview-IFCI(comprehensive evaluation of the everyday communication needs of patients whilst they are in hospital) Adult
  • Beyond Aphasia (therapies for living with communication Disability) Adult
  • Communication Activities with Adults (100+ graded communication activities for individuals and groups) Ages7+
  • Phonology Resource Pack for Adult Aphasia (focus on psycho-linguistic approach to aphasia therapy) Adult
  • SPPARC: Supporting Partners of People with Aphasia in Relationships and Conversation (contains manual, CD Rom and DVD) Adult
  • Semantic Workbooks (set of six books to target different aspects of clients semantic processing using drawings that are clear and captivating) Ages 5+
  • Language Activity Resource Kit-2nd Edition (LARK)
  • Manual of Aphasia and Aphasia Therapy
  • Sentence Production Program for Aphasia
  • Melodic Intonation Therapy
  • Narrative Story Cards
  • Aphasia Therapy Workbooks Volumes 1 and 2
  • Lessons for the Right Brain
  • Word-Finding Program
  • Early Aphasia Therapy (for the clinic and home)
  • Building Word Recall from Everyday Situations
  • More Descripto-Cards for Adult Aphasia
  • Advanced Descripto-Cards for Functional Language and Cognition
  • Speech and Language Rehabilitation - 4th Edition

AAC and hearing

  • RCSLT Clinical Guidelines (clinical management of specific disorders or conditions) All Ages
  • The Frenchay E-tran Frame (low-tech communication aid for people who have difficulty with speech) Adult
  • Teamwork (a guide to successful collaboration in health and social care) Adult
  • Active Communication Education (ACE) – programme for older people with hearing impairment (Adult)
  • Eye-Com Board and Overlays
  • INCH: Interaction Checklist for Augmentative Communication
  • Functional AAC Intervention

Feeding and swallowing

  • Swallowing guidelines (individualized programmes of care-contains interactive CD Rom) Adult
  • Working with Dysphagia (practical text, perspective on everyday working practice) Adult
  • Feeding and Swallowing Disorders in Dementia (includes case studies to illustrate theory in practice) Adult
  • Eating and Drinking Difficulties in Children (a guide for practitioners) Ages 0-16
  • The Manual of Paediatric Feeding Practice (provides practical and accessible assessment, therapy and management tools for children with feeding difficulties) Ages 0-16
  • The Fun With Food Programme (therapeutic intervention for children with aversion to oral feeding) Ages 1+
  • Evaluation and Treatment of Swallowing Disorders – 2nd Edition
  • Manual for the Videofluorographic Study of Swallowing – 2nd Edition
  • Management of Speech and Swallowing in Degenerative Diseases - 2nd Edition
  • Evaluation and Treatment of Paediatric Feeding Disorders (from NICU to Childhood)
  • Pre-Feeding skills - 2nd Edition
  • Treating Eating Problems of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Developmental Disabilities
  • Feeding and Nutrition for the child with Special Needs
  • Swallowing Disorders Treatment Manual - 2nd Edition
  • A Practical Approach to the Management of Saliva - 2nd Edition
  • Swallowing Disorders - 3rd Edition
  • Feeding and Swallowing Disorders in Infancy

Colorcards

The speechmark colorcards are uniquely created by speech and language therapists and teachers to develop listening and speaking.

  • How are they feeling?
  • Decisions
  • Story starters
  • Feelings
  • What are they thinking?
  • Emotions
  • Adjectives
  • Odd one out
  • Prepositions
  • Everyday objects
  • Verb tenses
  • Sequences: verb tenses
  • Expressive verbs
  • Basic verbs
  • Familiar verbs
  • Basic sequences
  • Simple sequences
  • Sequences: 4-step
  • Cause and effect
  • Problem solving
  • Sequencing: 6 and 8-step for children
  • Sequencing: 6 and 8-step for adults
  • Listening skills - outdoor sounds
  • Listening skills - indoor sounds
  • Listening skills - sequencing sounds
  • What's wrong?
  • What's inside?
  • What is it?
  • What's different?
  • What's missing?
  • Find the link
  • What can you see?
  • Colorlibrary
    • Home, Food, Possessions, Transport and Vehicles, Animals and Birds, Sport and Leisure, Occupations
  • Skills For Daily Living
    • Social Behaviour, Personal Safety, Personal Relationships
  • Categories
  • Colorcards Activities – 101 Ideas For Children And Adults

Professional resource

  • An Advanced Review of Speech & Language Pathology-2nd Edition (preparation for PRAXIS and Comprehensive Examination)
  • Treatment Procedures in Communicative Disorders - 3rd Edition
  • Treatment Protocols in Communicative Disorders (targets and strategies)
  • Introduction to Communicative Disorders - 4th Edition
  • Clinical Research in Communicative Disorders - 3rd Edition (principles and strategies)
  • Patient-Caregiver Handouts for Adult Rehabilitation
  • Later Language Development - 3rd Edition
  • Survival Guide for the beginning Speech and Language Clinician-2nd Edition
  • Interviewing and Counseling in Communicative Disorders - 3rd Edition
  • Counseling Persons with Communication Disorders and their Families - 5th Edition
  • Language Development, Differences and Disorders
  • Collaborating with Interpreters and Translators
  • Interpreters and Translators in Communication Disorders
  • Communication Solutions for Older Students
  • Introduction to Communication Sciences and Disorders - 4th Edition
  • Thinking About Child Language (Research to Practice)
  • Quick Reference to Speech-Language Pathology
  • The Annual Speech-Language Planner
  • Report Writing for Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists - 2nd Edition
  • Your Voice and Articulation - 4th Edition
  • Logbook for Speech-Language Services - 4th Edition
  • Guide to Analysis of Language Transcripts - 3rd Edition
  • Guide to Narrative Language (Procedures for Assessment)