Website Resources

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

Autism Speaks

CDC Milestone Moments

Cerebral Palsy Group - Therapy Options

ACPA Family Services Personalized support, education, and resources for individuals with cleft / craniofacial conditions

Face the Challenge CO-based humanitarian non-profit for facial surgeries in developing countries

The Hanen Centre Early Language Intervention

Identify the Signs Excellent resource for identifying signs of communication disorders

National Down Syndrome Society (NDSS)

Phonological Processes Patterns of sound errors and ages when they are typically eliminated

Reading Rockets

Speech, Language, and Hearing Milestones

Speech Sound Development Chart A chart showing age range of normal consonant development

The Stuttering Foundation

Tennessee Early Intervention Services Early intervention / educational program for families with children birth through age three who have disabilities or developmental delays

Favorite Apps

The following are some of the iPad apps we like!
Speech Therapy app Articulation Station
Articulation Station by Little Bee Speech
This is a great app for targeting speech goals at home.  You can download the free version and then make in-app purchases for the specific sound targets.  Articulation Station provides practice at word, phrase, sentence, and story levels and includes a matching game and the ability to record your voice and playback your productions.
Language Therapy app Toca Town
Toca Town by Toca Boca
Toca Town is one of our favorite play-based apps.  You can select your characters and explore the town which includes an apartment, house, restaurant, park, police station, and store.  Great for reinforcing and building every day vocabulary.  Also a great app for targeting sentence structures with verb tenses such as present progressive (he is sleeping), or past tense (he bought a lollipop).  Can use this app to reinforce a number of speech or language targets - the possibilities are endless!
Speech-Language Therapy app Talking Tom
Talking Tom Cat 2 by Outfit7 Limited
This free app has a cat that copies everything you say.  A great app to encourage young kids to produce sounds and words, and also provides feedback for kids who are working on various speech and language targets.  There are other similar apps in the series such as Talking Ginger, Talking Ben, and Talking Pierre.
Behavior Therapy Autism app Choiceworks
Choiceworks by Bee Visual, LLC
Thanks to a patient's mom for introducing this app!  She has found it very helpful for her child with autism.  Choiceworks provides visual schedules, timers, and social stories to support daily routines, waiting skills (taking turns and not interrupting), and feelings (understanding emotions and appropriate responses).
Language Therapy app First Phrases
First Phrases by Hamaguchi Apps for Speech, Language, and Auditory Development
There is a lite version or a full version with additional phrases.  We really like this app for kids working on 2-3 word phrases.  It provides pictures for verb + noun combinations (e.g., drive the car), reinforces with a video animation of the sentence, and then allows the child to record and playback saying the sentence.  We love and highly recommend many of the Hamaguchi Apps!  Other good ones to check out are Fun with Verbs & Sentences, ​Picture the Sentence, and Fun with Directions.
Social Pragmatic Language Autism Therapy app Sock Puppets
Sock Puppets by Smith Micro Software, Inc.
We love this app for role playing social scripts such as greetings, asking your name, etc.  Can also be used for general turn taking in conversation.  A fun way to target language and social conversation goals!