"I really appreciate the layout of the orthographic print with the picture in the background. The students get so proud of themselves when they are able to produce the sound correctly and describe the word they just produced. The students love to figure out the word they were saying. The whole group cheers on!" — A.L., SLP

"Literacy Speaks! is systematic and really stresses print awareness of sounds. My students enjoy producing the sound and practicing the letters that they are working on." — K.F., SLP

"This program makes it so easy for all of the SLPs in our office to incorporate literacy into our articulation treatment. The kids LOVE the books. We have seen tremendous growth, not only in articulation, but also in early literacy skills and even better attention with the use of this program." — E.M., SLP & Clinical Director

"I use the Literacy Speaks cards a lot in my therapy sessions. The kids really like the colorful drawings and the stories." — K.B, SLP

"Literacy Speaks makes my artic/language more efficient and streamlined." — B.T., SLP

"What a wonderful resource that makes incorporating literacy skills into therapy sessions so much easier!" — S.S., SLP

"This is a wonderful product! It is so gratifying to watch students literacy skills increase as they became more intelligible. Students were so proud to read their stories to teachers and parents!" — E.B., SLP

"Literacy Speaks allows for both articulation and phoneme-grapheme connections. Brilliant!" — T.B., SLP

"Any organized program that links sound production into literacy skills can only be considered a great thing! And there is no doubt that every speech therapist out there can use more functional ways to feed into generalization of corrected sound use. Thank you, Literacy Speaks!" — K.L., SLP

"Thank you for such a great program!" — M.L., SLP

"I have used Literacy Speaks and have really had success improving student's articulation and phonological awareness skills." — L.O., SLP

"I love how the Literacy Speaks approach targets a variety of skills!" — A.B., SLP

"I love Literacy Speaks! One of my favorite products." — B.T., SLP

"This is a great approach! My school just purchased to use with my caseload and I love it!" — M.S., SLP

"I like the aspect of using orthographic symbols with phonemes, and my students like reading the sentences." — K.F., SLP

"I really like Literacy Speaks. I got it last year and use it quite a bit with my students (3rd and 4th grades). It's easy to print out homework that is directly related to what you practiced in your session." — M.R., SLP

"You have created quite a unique and EFFECTIVE program! For all the very busy SLPs out there who needed a program like this, I thank you." — Coordinator of Speech Services

"So many students struggle with not only producing the sound but attaching the meaning of sound to the letter when writing. I love how this program attaches sounds to letters. My students love using the coloring pages and the stories." — K.F., SLP

"I went ahead and printed out the pages, and placed them in 3-ring binders, organized by letters. I can quickly run the pages through the copier, then I just staple the "books" together. I highly recommend "Literacy Speaks" for any SLP working with a pediatric population." — SLP

"I love how this program ties speech into literacy and makes it easy to use motor learning principles while also providing print cues and letter sound awareness. I also love the added sight words for language building and high reps. My students like the colorful pictures, card decks, storybooks, and writing pages." — L.S., SLP

"It has been absolutely amazing the progress our children have made from this program!" — J.K., Center Supervisor, CANI Head Start

"After using the Literacy Speaks! materials for only a few weeks, my young students began to enjoy looking for letters. Sounds in a particular word position that children have struggled with for a long time just "seemed to click". With the use of the Literacy Speaks! program, my students can see where sounds are located in words." — Early Childhood SLP

"I have presented the Literacy Speaks! sets at a district SLP meeting. Everyone was impressed with the strategy of letter-sound recognition, first, before pictures. They got that big takeaway message loud and clear. One of our supervisors mentioned how this program goes right along with the Readwell program utilized in our MM and MS classrooms. Thanks again for putting together such a great tool. All the kids especially love the stories. The Kinder parents are knocked out at their kids 'reading' the high-frequency word sentences." — R.H., SLP

"The Literacy Speaks! Program has dramatically improved my daughter's speech. Now, she enjoys searching for letters and has finally become aware of the sounds she is using in her speech. She is even beginning to correct several sounds on her own!” — Parent of 4-year-old preschool student

"I have one student who I was particularly 'stumped' with and I began using your program with him. What a difference! His DIBELS scores for phoneme segmentation have gone from 0-30 and alphabetic principal from 0-20, all in two months time. It is so exciting to see how much he loves the take-home books. I have to have one for him each speech sessions...if not, he is very disappointed. As I walk him back to his kindergarten class, he stops anyone he can find in the hallway and asks them if they would like to hear him read!" — K.M., Coordinator of Speech Services

"We have implemented Literacy Speaks! across our early childhood speech & language department and have seen big changes with some students who were just unable to grasp a certain sound or word using pictures. We received a positive response from parents and other educators as well." — SLP

"I love Literacy Speaks, even for my older (4th grade and up) clients." — J.E., SLP

"I have quite a few pediatric patients, and I began to use it with almost all of them. I have found it especially helpful for treating final consonant deletions. It also gives a very structured approach for autistic children, which they need. The children and parents love it." — SLP

"I have used Literacy Speaks! at a school for children with behavior problems. My students enjoy the pictures and short stories." — SLP

"We have seen tremendous growth, not only in articulation but also in early literacy skills and even better attention with the use of this program. Kids are able to self-correct because they have the phonemic representation for the orthographic cue. Literacy Speaks! has been such an asset to our program and has really increased the quality of services we provide. And, it is SO easy to use! We can't get enough of this program!" — E.H., SLP & Clinical Director

"This program is highly successful for children that are making little or no progress with traditional therapy. I observed dramatic improvements in my students with Final Consonant Deletion. Literacy Speaks! not only remediates difficult error patterns, but it also creates phonemic awareness!" — Early Childhood SLP

"I have taught at-risk preschoolers for many years, and I am thrilled to say that Literacy Speaks! has been the most successful literacy approach I have ever used. Not only did my English speakers make remarkable strides in letter/sound correlations, but even my ESL students markedly improved their literacy and language skills. And the children were fully engaged throughout the process! A great program!" — C.L., Head Start Teacher

"I was excited to find that 7 out of 9 of my self-contained special education preschoolers moved on to general education kindergarten and are either no longer eligible for special education services or will receive only minimal support as a result of consistently using Literacy Speaks! in my classroom. My 4-year-olds are identifying letters and sounds while increasing their language skills and remarkably, non-verbal 3-year olds are matching letters. Literacy Speaks! has inspired a diverse group of students with a variety of learning and achievement!" — Early Childhood Special Education Teacher

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