Older Student Speech & Language Handouts

These evidence-based handouts provide essential speech and language information and tips about your older students! In this comprehensive resource, you’ll find 30 color and black/white handouts that you can distribute and display in order to educate and enlist your upper elementary, middle and high school students as well as their families and educators about their goals and intervention.

These research-based handouts have been thoughtfully organized and designed to provide information about:

• Language, communication and cognitive development in older students
• Key information to educate and involve families and staff in meetings
• Strategies and tools to provide directly to your older students
• Specific goal-writing and intervention tips to guide your therapy with your older caseload

These 30 color and black/white handouts will simplify your speech-language planning, intervention, education and generalization for your older caseload:

INTERVENTION HANDOUTS:

• Goal-Writing for Older Students
• Articulation Tips for Older Students
• Building Trust and Rapport in the Upper Grades
• Achieve Carryover and Generalization by Practicing Speech/Language Goals in Different Situations
• Supporting Written Expression in Upper Elementary, Middle and High School Students
• Research-Based Vocabulary Intervention Tips
• Self-Advocacy Tips
• Using Play-Based Approaches to Build Language In Older Students
• Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs for Schools

DEVELOPMENT HANDOUTS:

• Primary Differences Between Later and Early Language Development
• Language and Cognitive Development in Adolescence
• Gradual Improvements in Narration and Conversation as School-Age Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults Mature
• MLUs Obtained by Leadholm & Miller (1992) for Children in Two Discourse Genres
• Potential Executive Functioning Challenges in Older Children with Developmental Language Disorder
• Comprehension of Linguistic Ambiguity from Jokes in Adolescence
• Vocabulary Development through Childhood, Adolescence, and into Adulthood
• Figurative Language Development through Childhood, Adolescence, and into Adulthood
• Syntactic Development through Childhood, Adolescence, and into Adulthood
• Development of Discourse and Pragmatics through Childhood, Adolescence, and into Adulthood
• Literacy Development through Childhood, Adolescence, and into Adulthood
• Self-Advocacy Tips

STUDENT HANDOUTS

• Working Together on your Speech and Language Goals
• I Can Self-Advocate
• Inferencing Steps
• Strategies for Conversation
• Using Latin Root Words as a Vocabulary-Learning Tool
• Metalinguistic Awareness Strategies for Older Students

FAMILY AND STAFF MEETING HANDOUTS

• Academic Language Skills Found in Common Core Standards
• Overview of Language – Assessment & Intervention
• How Can I Help My Older Child with Language Skills at Home?
• Speech and Language Skills Frequently Needed in the Workplace

This resource includes a hyperlinked table-of-contents and a comprehensive references section.

You can store and display your handouts in a variety of ways:

➜ Store in a binder with sheet protectors.

• This resource includes optional, printable one-inch binder spines. (These binder spines are especially durable when printed on card stock)

➜ Consider placing several black/white copies of each handout beneath colored handouts within each sheet-protector.

➜ Display handouts on a bulletin board or wall

➜ Distribute to families and staff at meetings

➜ Send handouts home to families to promote carryover

➜ Review and distribute handouts with strategies and tools to your older students during your session

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