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Speech and Language


Top 11 Series or Books for Speech and Language

First 100 Words – “Talk-about” pictures of everyday activities for use with language, articulation, and phonology goals. Sticker book version also available.

Everyday Words – Detailed claymation like scenes, appropriate for all age levels and language goals. Also ideal for written language with key vocabulary provided in margins. Book can become a game board or even more interactive with a sticker book.

First 1000 Words – Includes pages categorized by scene, as well as, pages about opposites, seasons, actions, sizes and more. Perfect for vocabulary, articulation, and language goals for pre-K through adult. Also available in a Sticker book

There's A Mouse About the House and A Squirrel's Tale – Both slot books are perfect for the interactive nature of therapy. They elicit language through actions of moving the character, are filled with concept vocabulary, and make books come alive for children who are not book-lovers. Turn-taking and social gestures also reinforced.

Lift the Flap – Interactive stories with rhyming, predictable text. Action-filled illustrations elicit language, questions, and the hidden characters are perfect for reinforcing prepositions. Titles include: Creepy Crawlies, Flip Flap Farm, and Animal Homes. See more titles

Easy Words to Read – Rhyming text is perfect for phonemic awareness. Also, ideal for simple narratives, prediction, artic and phonology, etc. Titles include: Big Pig on a Dig, Fox on a Box and Shark in the Park. See more titles

Touchy-Feely – Perfect for negation, descriptive words, turn taking, and predictable language structures. Titles include: Animal Hide and Seek, Puppies and Diggers See more titles

Farmyard Tales – Perfect for early sequencing of stories, narratives, articulation carryover, and early literacy. Each story is told at 2 language/reading levels. Titles include: Camping Out, Hungry Donkey and Naughty Sheep plus many more. Search Farmyard Tales on the online catalog to see more Farmyard Tales titles.

What’s Happening? - Detailed illustrations elicit questions and answers, predicting, descriptions, storytelling with one picture, and more. Titles include: At the Seaside, At the Zoo and On the Farm

Puzzle Books – Problem-solving, predicting, attention to detail, auditory memory, and sequencing are just a few of the skills in these series. Books for all ages. Titles include: Puzzle Ocean, Puzzle Pirates and Puzzle Dinosaurs

What Shall I? And Playtime – Step-by-step projects are perfect for extension activities, sequencing, and retelling. Titles Include: Big Book of Playtime Activities, I Can Cut and Stick, I Can Draw Animals, I Can Draw People, What Shall I Draw? and What Shall I Make