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Allison Fors, Inc.

Speech Therapy Tools for SLPs and Educators

About Me

Welcome! I’m Allison, a speech and language resource author. I have primarily worked with diagnoses of autism, Down syndrome, and developmental delays in schools K-12 and private practice. My interests include early language, as well as understanding and incorporating sensory strategies into my sessions. I also have a daughter who is cleft-affected, which began a special interest with this particular population!

I love creating functional resources, providing inspiration and ideas for your caseload, and making therapy planning quick and easy.

My journey creating resources began when I realized most of the materials I was using weren’t targeted to teach my pre-verbal, low attention students effectively. I realized I needed to adjust my teaching to each child’s learning style, and that the best learning happened when it didn’t feel like work!

My speech therapy resources are interactive and engaging. They are easily adaptable to target a variety of goals and use with many different students. Whether you are an SLP, SLPA, special education teacher, ESL teacher, behavioral therapist, or parent, I hope you find my resources helpful! I especially love creating no prep and no print resources.

I also began making clipart to use in my resources and started selling them for other teachers to use in their educational materials! The images I create are functional and versatile. They are appropriate for both older and younger students, and are intentionally made to be useful in teaching language concepts and life skills.

Find me featured on the following Podcasts:

  • The Autism Outreach Podcast – Language Development Milestones
  • SLPs Wine and Cheese – Velopharyngeal Insufficiency
  • SLPs Wine and Cheese – Less is More
  • Speechy Things – Hello from the Other Side: Becoming a NICU Mom
  • The Unexpected Podcast – Cleft Palate
  • Real Talk SLP – Supporting Children with Sensory Processing Disorder
  • Speechie Side Up – Getting to Know Allison

Find me featured in the ASHA Leader magazine:

  • Jan 2018 edition
  • Jun 2019 edition
  • Mar 2020 edition
  • Mar 2021 edition

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Echolalia is actually a positive prognostic indica Echolalia is actually a positive prognostic indicator for autistic children! We don’t treat it this way most of the time even though it’s a communicative function for the individual. Instead of ignoring or trying to get a child to stop, we should try to shape the content into meaningful communication by teaching the meaning of the words or modeling appropriate language.
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Echolalia is a repetition of another person’s spoken words. This often presents in a child quoting favorite movies or repeating a question directed towards them.
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(Prizant 1987)
Resurfacing this for Better Hearing and Speech Mon Resurfacing this for Better Hearing and Speech Month 👄🗣🧠👂🏼 

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Common Diacritics for Cleft Affected Speech 👇👇👇

Nasal emission: The audible release of bursts of air through the nose during speech while producing a consonant that requires a buildup of air pressure.

Nasal turbulence: The escape of air through the nasal cavity, but it is perceived as turbulent, a snort or nasal rustle.

Dentalized: When the tip of the tongue is pushed against the back of the upper teeth.

Hypernasailty: A condition when air flows through the nasal passage during voiced consonants and vowels causing too much nasal resonance. It may or may not be audible.

Hyponasality: A condition when there is not enough nasal resonance on nasal sounds due to a blockage in the nasopharynx or nasal cavity.

Fronted: When a sound produced in the back of the mouth is replaced with a sound made in the front of the mouth.

Backed: When a sound produced in the front of the mouth is replaced with a sound made in the back of the mouth.

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SPEECH VS LANGUAGE. BHSM seems like a good time to SPEECH VS LANGUAGE. BHSM seems like a good time to share this again. 

Oh how many times I’ve explained these two terms! Do you find yourself breaking down the difference between speech and language?

This graphic is in the Free SLP Handouts download. 🔗 allisonfors.com/speech-therapy-handouts/
May is Better Hearing and Speech Month! Now if onl May is Better Hearing and Speech Month! Now if only there was an easy way to explain alllll the aspects of speech-language pathology! 👄🦻🏻
Want to know what the most horrific/best thing I e Want to know what the most horrific/best thing I ever did in therapy was?
Video myself.
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I realized I wasn’t giving enough wait time for my students. Turns out what feels like eternity after you ask a question, is really half a second. 😂 It took a lot of retraining to be ok with the quiet and not try to fill every moment with a teaching opportunity. Try counting to 10 before you jump in!

Have you ever filmed yourself in therapy? What was your biggest takeaway? 
If you’ve never done it or it’s been awhile...do it!

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