Literacy Speaks!® Early Developing Sounds
Description
Utilize orthographic instruction to remediate speech errors while also supporting literacy and language skills.
Literacy Speaks!® Set 1 includes everything you'll need to easily implement into your therapy sessions with minimal preparation time!
Set 1 – Early Developing Sounds
Research has found that even when children with speech sound disorders receive early speech intervention and sounds are successfully remediated, they may be at continued risk for later reading, spelling, and academic difficulties due to weak underlying phonological representations. Literacy Speaks!® was developed to address this by using orthographic instruction (printed cues) to improve intelligibility while also building underlying phonological representations.
Literacy Speaks!® Set 1 includes the early developing sounds of /m, n, p, b, t, d, w, h, c/k, g, f, v/. The natural step-by-step learning progression introduces children to sound-letter correlations using a sound-targeted approach and provides exposure to essential sight words. It offers a hybrid model that can be implemented independently or used in combination with multiple evidence-based speech interventions during individual, group, and classroom sessions. Includes numerous printables and activities to ease clinician workload and enable skill carryover to home and classroom environments. Ages 4 - 10 years. Made in USA.
What's Included?
Your order includes 336 stimulus cards, a comprehensive manual (downloadable), and numerous printables via download. Contains everything you need to easily implement into your therapy sessions with minimal preparation time!
Target Sounds:
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- /m, n, p, b, t, d, w, h, c/k, g, f, v/
Stimulus Card Set:
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- Alphabetic Letter Cards
- Target Word Cards (initial / final)
- Sight Word Cards
- Punctuation Cards
Printables via Download:
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- Reproducible Letter Tracing Pages
- Reproducible Coloring Pages
- Reproducible Activity Handouts
- Reproducible Storybooks
Manual via Download:
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- Written to aid the clinician in successful implementation of Literacy Speaks!®.
- Explains why letter recognition needs to come before sound introduction.
- Explains how to use orthographic instruction to improve phonological awareness.
- Includes additional resources and supportive activities.
The included activities and printables were developed to enable generalization of sound recognition and sound production into various environments. SLPs and families can implement them in a variety of settings to promote creative and fun learning, encourage literacy, and enhance language skills.
– E.M., SLP & Clinical Director
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How It Works:
Literacy Speaks!® uses orthographic instruction (printed cues) to first establish appropriate sound-letter association before picture stimuli are introduced. This natural step-by-step learning progression ensures orthographic and phonological knowledge align to improve intelligibility while building early literacy skills, simultaneously! Check out this video below comparing Traditional Therapy vs. Orthographic Therapy.
Target Age Range and Populations:
For implementation by SLPs, Special Educators, General Educators, Title 1 Educators, and Literacy Specialists working with young children ages 4-10 on phonological awareness, speech intelligibility, language skills and early literacy skills.
Literacy Speaks!® is appropriate for:
- Preschool through early elementary school children
- Children with special needs
- Children with autism spectrum disorder
- Children with communication disorders
- Children at-risk for reading failure
- Children learning English as a second language
- Economically disadvantaged children
Literacy Speaks!® offers a hybrid model that can be implemented independently or used in combination with multiple evidence-based speech interventions during individual, group, and classroom sessions.
Available as 3 individual Sets. . . Or, purchase the Combo and SAVE 25%
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Purchase Set 1 Early Sounds: m, n, p, b, t, d, w, h, c/k, g, f, v
Purchase Set 2 Later Sounds: s, z, l, sh, th, ch, pre/vocalic r
Purchase Set 3 Clusters: L, R, S
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View the Letters-to-Literacy Progression
- Begin with print only by using a single letter card.
- Introduce the printed letter, then establish correct sound-letter correlation without using picture stimuli.
- Trace a letter.
- Strengthen letter knowledge using the reproducible activity sheets.
- Go on a letter hunt.
- Engage children in a fun and functional method to find target sound-letter correlations in various environments.
- Once sound-letter correlation is achieved, introduce the printed word.
- Use the reverse side of the target stimulus card (print only) to teach correct production at the word level.
- Now display the target picture.
- Once accurate production of the target word is achieved using print only, now use the front of the stimulus card to introduce the picture. This critical step links orthographic knowledge to phonological conception!
- Color a picture.
- Use the reproducible coloring sheets to strengthen use at the word level and encourage generalization to home & classroom environments.
- Use in a phrase.
- Combine the sight word cards with the target word card to establish the target word in phrases.
- Use in a sentence.
- Use sight word cards, high frequency words, and punctuation cards to create sentences with the target word.
- Create, color and read the included, reproducible storybooks.
- Children love these whimsical, sound-loaded storybooks and have such a sense of accomplishment once they are able to read the stories themselves out loud. Just imagine their smile!
- Read! Read!! Read!!!
- Read to a child today and you will build the literacy foundations for tomorrow!
What's Included
Set 1 Includes the Sounds:
- m, n, p, b, t, d, w, h, c/k, g, f, v
Resources Included:
- Instructional Manual via Download
- Homework Tracking Form for Each Sound
- 213 Stimulus Word Cards
- 96 Sight Word Cards
- 3 Punctuation Cards
Resources per Sound:
- /m/ - Initial and Final
- 2 Letter Cards
- 19 Stimulus Word Cards
- 2 Letter Tracing Printables
- 6 Coloring Printables
- 6 Reproducible Books
- /n/ - Initial and Final
- 2 Letter Cards
- 20 Stimulus Word Cards
- 2 Letter Tracing Printables
- 6 Coloring Printables
- 6 Reproducible Books
- /p/ - Initial and Final
- 2 Letter Cards
- 20 Stimulus Word Cards
- 2 Letter Tracing Printables
- 6 Coloring Printables
- 6 Reproducible Books
- /b/ - Initial and Final
- 2 Letter Cards
- 18 Stimulus Word Cards
- 2 Letter Tracing Printables
- 6 Coloring Printables
- 6 Reproducible Books
- /t/ - Initial and Final
- 2 Letter Cards
- 19 Stimulus Word Cards
- 2 Letter Tracing Printables
- 6 Coloring Printables
- 6 Reproducible Books
- /d/ - Initial and Final
- 2 Letter Cards
- 19 Stimulus Word Cards
- 2 Letter Tracing Printables
- 6 Coloring Printables
- 6 Reproducible Books
- /w/ - Initial
- 2 Letter Cards
- 10 Stimulus Word Cards
- 2 Letter Tracing Printables
- 3 Coloring Printables
- 3 Reproducible Books
- /h/ - Initial
- 2 Letter Cards
- 10 Stimulus Word Cards
- 2 Letter Tracing Printables
- 3 Coloring Printables
- 3 Reproducible Books
- /c/k/ - Initial and Final
- 2 Letter Cards
- 20 Stimulus Word Cards
- 2 Letter Tracing Printables
- 8 Coloring Printables
- 8 Reproducible Books
- /g/ - Initial and Final
- 2 Letter Cards
- 19 Stimulus Word Cards
- 2 Letter Tracing Printables
- 6 Coloring Printables
- 6 Reproducible Books
- /f/ - Initial and Final
- 2 Letter Cards
- 20 Stimulus Word Cards
- 2 Letter Tracing Printables
- 6 Coloring Printables
- 6 Reproducible Books
- /v/ - Initial and Final
- 2 Letter Cards
- 19 Stimulus Word Cards
- 2 Letter Tracing Printables
- 6 Coloring Printables
- 6 Reproducible Books
VIEW RESEARCH
Includes 336 cards (size 4.25" x 3.25")
Printables and stimulus cards included for each sound! Above example from Set 2 - Later Developing Sounds
Numerous printables, including storybooks for coloring and reading.
Target Audience
Literacy Speaks!® is for implementation by:
Speech-Language Pathologists, Special Educators, General Educators, Title 1 Educators, and Literacy Specialists working with children ages 4-10 on phonological awareness, speech intelligibility, language skills and early literacy skills.
Literacy Speaks!® is appropriate for:
- Preschool through early elementary school children
- Children with special needs
- Children with autism spectrum disorder
- Children with communication disorders
- Children at-risk for reading failure
- Children learning English as a second language
- Economically disadvantaged children
Author
Keli Richmond, MS, CCC-SLP, is a practicing speech-language pathologist specializing in early literacy development. She has a Teaching License as well as a Master of Science Degree in Speech-Language Pathology, Bachelor of Arts Degrees in both Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, and a Minor Focus in Special Education. Her career began in the medical field with an emphasis on neurological disorders; then, she continued to expand her experience by providing therapy and promoting literacy skills for preschool through middle school students.
Keli conducts in-service training for school-based personnel, presents continuing education seminars nationwide for Northern Speech Services (NSS), and speaks at Speech-Language-Hearing Conventions, Educator Conferences and related events.
Some highlights of Keli’s career are receiving the “Professional Achievement Award in Recognition of Advancement of Knowledge in Clinical Practice” from the Indiana Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ISHA); the “Award for Continuing Education” (ACE) from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA); and the “Award for Top 100 Websites for Speech-Language Pathologists”. The ISHA award is based on outstanding professional development and community involvement. The ASHA award is based on a commitment to lifelong learning. The Top 100 Websites award is based on the best available websites for anyone with an interest in speech-language pathology.
She was a founding member of the United Way Women’s Initiative. The Women’s Initiative is an organization dedicated to closing educational gaps through early literacy development.
Keli is the author of the Literacy Speaks!® program. Literacy Speaks!® is a comprehensive program driven by orthographic instruction (printed cues) designed to improve speech intelligibility, enhance phonological awareness and expand language skills while establishing a strong literacy foundation.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial — Keli Richmond is an author of online CE courses sponsored by Northern Speech Services; receives royalty payments.
Financial — Keli Richmond is an author of the Literacy Speaks!® materials published by Northern Speech Services; receives royalty payments.
Nonfinancial — Keli Richmond has no relevant nonfinancial relationships to disclose.
Customer Reviews
"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
"I have set number 1 and love it!" — K.F., SLP
”I love teaching the production of sounds in speech. The way this program’s sounds are arranged is perfect for teaching the early developing sounds." — B.R., 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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