Resources

On this page you’ll find product recommendations, developmental information, and websites for additional resources and learning.

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Product Recommendations

If you are looking for enriching activities to do with your child that will promote speech and language development, please check out my suggestions below. I personally have used many of these in my practice. Please let me know if you need additional information or recommendations.

Oral Motor

Floss Holders

Floss holders can teach the correct spot for articulating certain speech sounds.

Talk Tools Jigglers

Jigglers help with oral sensation.

Chewy Tubes

Chewy Tubes help with toning the muscles and for oral sensory input.

ez pz Tiny Cup

ez pz Tiny cups are good open training cup.

Books

Nobody Ever Told Me (or my Mother) That!: Everything from Bottles and Breathing to Healthy Speech Development

Comprehensive book covering all things feeding and speech.

Tongue-Tied: How a Tiny String Under the Tongue Impacts Nursing, Speech, Feeding, and More

Helpful deep dive into the effects of Tongue Tie.

Penny Dale’s Dinosaur Books

Shared storybook reading is huge for our kids. These books are a great example of books with lots of sounds, interaction, verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs, story structure, and more.

Journey Trilogy

These are my favorite wordless picture books. They are filled with inferences, rich vocabulary potential, and narrative structure.

Games & Activities

Pop Up Pirate

Games like Pop Up Pirate are great for motivating speech practice.

Hidden Gems

This activity can be paired with speech practice. Kids are super motivated by finding hidden objects. Around Easter, I enjoy hiding mini objects in eggs.

Big Feelings Pineapple

Chewy Tubes help with toning the muscles and for oral sensory input.

Little People Cruise Ship

Little People play sets are a fan favorite. Good for: pretend play, verbs, nouns, location/basic concepts, pronouns, following directions, cause and effect.

Spinning Stacker Toy

Great for cause and effect and early play and language skills.

Melissa and Doug Puzzles

Puzzles, especially ones with magnets provide opportunities for labeling and basic language skills.

Tacos Play Food Set

Play food sets are very interactive. You can work on nouns, verbs, following directions, social skills, location concepts, etc.

Dot Markers

Dot Markers are very multipurpose. Great motivators as well as good for early language development.

Development

Check out some speech and language development handouts to learn about potential red flags and when to seek out a professional evaluation.

Websites

Below is a handful of websites that you can reference to learn more about speech, language, and myofunctional therapy, development, and related topics.