Clear Speech Intelligibility Strategies Visual Support for Speech Therapy

Help your speech therapy students learn and use strategies to improve intelligibility using this simple and effective visual! The clear descriptions and images give students concrete ways to help themselves be understood by their friends, classmates, teachers, family, and community members!

This tool will help you...

• Incorporate intelligibility strategies as a supplement to any therapy activity that you're doing with your students, such as role plays, worksheets, or discussions.
• Promote home carryover of speech therapy goals by providing parents with a clear and simple resource to use at home.
• Serve as an anchor chart posted in your speech therapy room to remind students of their clear speech strategies.
• Promote your students' independence by giving them techniques to feel more confident in all environments.

Teach and practice intelligibility strategies, then apply them to other activities and situations! The resource provides 6 ways students can use clearer speech, including:

• Using a medium rate of speech
• Using an appropriate volume for the setting
• Turning the body toward the person you're talking to
• Thinking about speech sounds and saying each sound in each word
• Over-articulating to say each sound clearly
• Pausing between phrases and sentences

This visual can be used across your speech therapy caseload, with both younger and older students! Two versions of the images/icons are included so you can choose which works best for each student.

Print this resource or use it digitally, as both color and black/white versions are included. This resource will not only help you teach your students about clear speech, but also allow them repeated practice with using their strategies both in and outside of speech therapy sessions. By using these techniques, students will feel more confident and be more independent in their speech!

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