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Free Resources to get you started
We all need to start somewhere, but sometimes this can be difficult to figure out on our own. So, here are some FREE resources to help you practice new habits and build upon work you've already started at home.
Resources
Free Educational Handouts
Handy Handouts is a great website with tons of different tools, exercises and worksheets for both kids and parents that help with any educational, speech or language delays. Each area is separated to ensure maximum ease in finding the right tools to help with your child's communication goals.
Language Delay & Disorder
Support
Dealing with Language Delays & Disorders can feel super overwhelming and even isolating. At the DLD Project and RADLD you'll find articles and tools to help you normalize this common difficulty. They offer a ton of support and training, as well as access to a community so that you know you are not alone.
Swallowing & Feeding
Swallowing & feeding difficulties come from a myriad of different causes and can affect all ages from infancy to adulthood. Find some tips, tricks and support for infant through toddler age-range difficulties at Pediatric Feeding. The National Foundation of Swallowing Disorders also offers resources, videos, support communities and more for families and individuals struggling with this difficulty.
Fluency & Stuttering
Stuttering can be very challenging to live with and understand; often it is a life-long condition that requires the right kind of support and tools to manage, but that's ok. Both the CSA (Canadian Stuttering Association) and The Stuttering Foundation have great resources to help you learn more about it from a scientific perspective and offer encouragement along the way.
Literacy & Pre-literacy
Some children have a greater difficulty learning when it comes to literacy - literacy refers to anything to do with reading or writing. There are ways that you as a parent can help along the way. At Smart Speech Therapy and Speech & Language Kids by the SLP Solution you can find amazing tools and at-home exercises to make sure you and your child are in the best position possible to work on their literacy skills.