The K&K Sign to Talk program is designed to transition nonverbal young children with autism from sign to vocal communication. For children who are not yet vocal imitators, this program helps to promote and shape spontaneous vocal language skills by providing a bridge from signing to vocal communication. Target words are depicted using amazing real-life photos on large, glossy cards, and were selected to represent high-frequency, everyday objects (nouns) and actions (verbs) that children frequently request and that double as excellent reinforcers.

Each kit contains cards displaying high-quality photos of the target object or action on the front. The reverse side displays the ASL sign and Kaufman progressive “word shell” approximations used to shape intelligible articulation. The accompanying 40-page manual fully explains this approach. A must-have resource for any verbal behavior program!

The K&K Sign to Talk program is brought to you by Nancy R. Kaufman and her co-creator, Tami Kasper.

Published by Northern Speech Services. 

The K&K Sign to Talk program is designed to transition nonverbal young children with autism from sign to vocal communication. For children who are not yet vocal imitators, this program helps to promote and shape spontaneous vocal language skills by providing a bridge from signing to vocal communication. Target words are depicted using amazing real-life photos on large, glossy cards, and were selected to represent high-frequency, everyday objects (nouns) and actions (verbs) that children frequently request and that double as excellent reinforcers.

Each kit contains cards displaying high-quality photos of the target object or action on the front. The reverse side displays the ASL sign and Kaufman progressive “word shell” approximations used to shape intelligible articulation. The accompanying 40-page manual fully explains this approach. A must-have resource for any verbal behavior program!

The K&K Sign to Talk program is brought to you by Nancy R. Kaufman and her co-creator, Tami Kasper.

Published by Northern Speech Services. 

Your favorite Mutt Family characters are back, and they want you to discover What's In Your Doghouse? This engaging, hands-on, structured therapy tool will help children with CAS or developmental delays bridge motor speech to expressive language skills without taxing the speech motor planning system.

It's all about getting a match! Your student(s) will have in front of them a game board and many doghouses, each with a token inside that may or may not be a match to their game board. The first student to get all 7 matches wins! Throughout the game, work with your student(s) to:

• Expand language skills.
• Produce simple common nouns.
• Strengthen the ability to produce simple syllable shapes, especially CVC and simple bisyllabics, such as the Mutt Family character names (Buddy, Heidi, Paddy, etc).
• Produce word combinations of two and three words in Verb-Object or Subject-Verb-Object phrases.
• Produce grammatically correct sentences.
• Improve social interactive language.

With minimal preparation, this can be played with 1 - 6 players. Ideal for group therapy, including children with different levels of functioning. Great for one-on-one therapy too. Depending on your student's ability, other options of play include:

• Focusing on literacy.
• Visual memory challenge.
• Social skills reinforcement (turn taking, eye contact, etc).
• Practicing simple pivot phrases.
• Using word retrieval for nouns and verbs.
• Targeting simple syntax and morphology.

This can also be used to reinforce and build on skills learned in the Kaufman Treatment Kit 1 and Kaufman Workout Book.

WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD - Small parts not for children under 3 years old.
Made in the USA.

Published by Northern Speech Services. 

The Kaufman Mutt Family Total Language Builder is a playful, yet comprehensive therapy tool that has children actively engaged as the clinician targets receptive and expressive language development. The interactive, magnetic design will hold attention and the connectable scenes provide the clinician flexibility to control level of difficulty. This is an excellent resource to reinforce motor-speech coordination achieved with Kaufman Kit 1 and Workout Book.

The game cue cards direct the magnetic Mutt Family characters into one of 18 different target actions to build language skills, including vocabulary, simple word combinations, sentence building, following directions, auditory comprehension, receptive language, and early literacy practice. Also teach prepositions, pronouns, present progressives, pronoun possessive agreement, third-person singular, and past tense formulations. Clinician has flexibility to control focus and difficulty through use of a single scene piece, a grouping of scene pieces, or use the complete, 18-scene puzzle board.
Program includes 18 target actions on their own interconnecting scene pieces, Mutt Family character magnets, object magnets, prompt cards, instructional manual, and single scene stand. Ages 2 to 10. Made in the USA.

• Builds receptive and expressive language skills.
• Reinforces concepts learned from Kaufman Kit 1 and Workout Book.
• Targets 18 different actions on connectable, magnetic scene pieces.
• Holds attention through interactive activities and magnetic design.
• Features magnetic Mutt Family characters and object magnets
  for children to manipulate.
• Finished size is 21 x 30 inches.
• Easel & white board not included.

Published by Northern Speech Services. 

Ideal follow up material after progress is made with the Kaufman Treatment Kits! The Kaufman Kits helped to shape syllables into words. Now use Workout Book to expand single words into phrases and sentences. These materials are reproducible allowing the SLP to create home programs.

Includes 16 reproducible motor-speech coordination workouts to stabilize the pronunciation of consonant-vowel combinations, and promote rapid development of expressive language skills while controlling for oral-motor difficulty. Building on Kaufman Kit 1, the activities feature familiar Mutt Family characters and focus on consonant-vowel combinations with /m, p, b, t, d, n, h/.

Each workout explains what skill is being targeted, how to perform the exercise, and specific help that is to be offered to the child. The straightforward style of this book allows parents/caregivers to reinforce the work done by the SLP. Ages 2 to 10. Made in the USA.

• Develops expressive language skills.
• Includes 16 motor-speech coordination workouts.
• Next step in therapy after Kaufman Kit 1.
• Reproducible content to create home programs.
• Teaches cueing techniques for specific sounds.
• Features familiar Mutt Family characters.
• Holds attention with colorful and engaging story themes.

Published by Northern Speech Services. 

This highly effective approach builds intelligibility through a hierarchy of successive “word shell” approximations based on least physiological effort of target words. The clinician also is able to introduce more complex phoneme patterns as the child’s ability improves, thus maintaining the child’s ability to speak at his or her maximum level.

Kit 2 refines intelligibility for children who have mastered sounds in Kaufman Kit 1 (p, b, m, t, d, n, h, w). Advanced level Kit 2 then works to refine articulation and build higher motor-speech coordination. Kit 2 uses familiar two and three-syllable words to target more complicated motor-speech movements and synthesis into initial and final word positions. Kit 2 targets synthesis of /f, g, k, l, s, sh/ and blends /s, r, l/ plus ber and ter.

Published by Northern Speech Services. 

This highly effective approach builds intelligibility through a hierarchy of successive “word shell” approximations based on least physiological effort of target words. The clinician also is able to introduce more complex phoneme patterns as the child’s ability improves, thus maintaining the child’s ability to speak at his or her maximum level.

Kit 1 teaches children to combine consonants and vowels to form words while controlling for oral-motor difficulty. The 225 visual referent cards were selected specifically to target and teach the syllable shapes children need to master to become effective vocal/verbal communicators. Treatment methods employ a systematic and progressive approach of simplifying word pronunciation patterns to shape and expand verbal expression and make communication easier for children with childhood apraxia of speech and other speech sound disorders.

Published by Northern Speech Services.