Product Descriptions

3. TALKING WITH THE ABC’s SPEECH KIT

This kit is a speech resource developed for parents and clinicians, to support the development of speech and language skills in young children who are already attempting to communicate verbally. Six songs are presented in which alphabet sounds, syllables, functional words, and phrases are sung in a slow, repetitive, rhythmic pattern to promote attention and learning. Words are introduced including names of objects, people, actions, colors, and locations. Communicative Functions for social phrase practice include: requesting actions/objects/help, commenting, and greeting. Visuals include flash cards showing the “mouth” modeling movements needed for speech production, and photos of children performing everyday actions with everyday objects.

Table of Content: 1. Talking With The ABC’s 2. Mouth Movin with the ABC’s 3. ABC Words
4. ABC Questions 5. ABC Sounds 6. ABC Numbers

Sample Song:

1. SILLY SIGNING SONGS AND FLASH CARD Kit

The Silly Signing Songs were created as a fun and interactive way to encourage early signs and speech development in young children who may not even be talking yet. Each of the 13 songs are sung in a slow, repetitive way, with the target sign repeated many times, to give the child lots of practice and opportunities to learn the gesture. Parents/teachers are encouraged to model the sign each time, and to help the child make the sign with hands on teaching if needed. Each song has special games, speech, and/or movements to encourage speech and social interactions between the child and adult, such as walking like an elephant/mouse, a tickling game, pee-a-boo, and drinking/eating time. Many of the songs involve fun speech practice with words paired with actions (go, boom) , animal noises, sound effects (blowing rasberries, yawning, kissing) , and practice of early consonant/vowel words (owie, eek) . It even includes a silly bathroom song, taking the child through a 5 step process, with funny comedy sounds to listen to while practicing the “potty process”. The flash card set includes 13 cards showing how to perform the sign as well as the lyrics/actions to each song.

Table of Contents: 1. Come on 2. Bubbles 3. More Tickles 4. I Love You 5. I Want to Wiggle 6. I Want to Eat 7. My Turn 8. My Drink 9. My Blanket 10. The Bathroom 11. Take a Bath 12. Night Night 13. Time to Go

Sample Song

2. HELPING HAND SIGNALS WITH THE ABC SPEECH KIT

The Helping Hand Signals were created to give children a system of seeing and feeling the vowels and consonants that make up the words we say in our everyday speech. While teaching a target vowel or consonant in a word, the adult pairs a verbal sound production with a large arm/hand movement chosen specifically for that target sound. The child is encouraged to imitate the large arm/hand in coordination with saying the target vowel or consonant. This approach can emphasize the child's mouth movements, which may result in improved pronunciation skills in syllables, words, and phrases.

This kit includes: *Vowel Hand Motion Chart and Letter Doodle Chart
*Consonant Hand Motion Chart and Letter Doodle Chart
*Parent Guide for Toy Box and Practice Ideas
*Music CD (2 songs, 15 min): Helping Hand Signals for ABC Vowels and Consonants
Helping Hand Signals for ABC Consonants