USING STORYBOOKS AS SPEECH THERAPY TOOLS


2-Hour Self-Study Video Course

Course Summary

Shared storybook reading can provide a powerful context for supporting speech and language growth in young children with speech and/or language impairments. This course will provide speech-language pathologists with evidence-based strategies to facilitate progress on goals related to speech, language, and social skills along with specific book titles for each goal area.

Learning Outcomes:  

As a result of this activity, the participant will be able to: 

  1. Describe 5 articulation skills, 5 language skills, and 5 social skills that can be addressed through shared storybook reading.
  2. List specific strategies to use before, during, and after shared book reading to promote speech and language development.
  3. Summarize how storybooks can be used to promote phonological awareness skills in young children. 


Timed Agenda:          

  • Minutes 1-2   Introduction
  • Minutes 3-10   Why and how SLPs use books in therapy
  • Minutes 11-35  Addressing articulation goals with storybooks
  • Minutes 36-55 Addressing language goals with storybooks
  • Minutes 56-70  Addressing social goals with storybooks
  • Minutes 71-90   Specific strategies to promote speech and language
  • Minutes 91-110  Building phonological awareness skills with storybooks
  • Minutes 111-120   Recorded Q & A


Meet the Speaker


Cari Ebert, MS, CCC-SLP is a pediatric speech-language pathologist in the Kansas City, Missouri area. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Iowa in 1993 and her master’s degree from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1995. Cari is a therapist, consultant, author, product developer, and nationally recognized speaker who gets paid to do what she loves most—TALK! She specializes in autism, apraxia, and early intervention. Cari’s son has dual diagnoses of autism and apraxia, allowing her to engage audiences both as a professional and as a parent of a child with different abilities. In 2018, Cari co-authored a book with Dave Hammer titled, The SLP’s Guide to Treating Childhood Apraxia of Speech. In 2020, she published a book on autism titled, The Learning to Learn Program. Visit www.cariebertseminars.com to browse Cari’s wide variety of speech therapy and early intervention products.  


Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Cari Ebert receives royalties from all product sales on her website. She also benefits financially from all sales of this self-study course.

Non-financial: Cari Ebert has a son with autism and apraxia and shares personal experiences in her seminars.

This course is approved for Individual use only. For groups
interested in purchasing this course please contact [email protected]

Curriculum


  Using Storybooks as Speech Therapy Tools
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