Imitating Actions and Symbolic Sounds for Early Intervention Speech Therapy

Do you work with late talkers in early intervention speech therapy sessions, who are not yet imitating actions, sounds or words? Do you feel stuck for ideas for how you can target these early actions and sounds in play and routines? Well, this Imitation Bundle of Actions and Symbolic Sounds and Exclamatory Words is for you!

This low prep early intervention speech therapy bundle contains two resources aimed at supporting young children to develop their imitation skills.

Bundle Pricing:

Purchased separately, the resources would total $24.50.

The regular bundle price is $20.83, which saves you 15%.

⭐ What's Included in this Bundle?:

This bundle includes two resources for Early Intervention Speech Therapy

1- The Symbolic Sounds and Exclamatory Words resource contains 77 visuals, over 30 foldable books, and a huge range of activity ideas for supporting young children to develop the use of symbolic sounds and exclamatory words. There are 77 different sounds/words included, including animal sounds, vehicle sounds, environmental sounds and "people sounds" (sneeze, cough, cry etc.) and exclamatory words (oo, ouch, uh-oh etc.).

The Symbolic Sounds and Exclamatory Words resource includes:

Pgs 4-5- Therapist information

Pgs 6-7- Sounds Checklist for data collection and progress monitoring

Pg 8- Caregiver information

Pgs 9-10- Directions for making the foldable book (very low prep)

Pgs 11-25- Activity ideas for symbolic sounds and exclamatory words

Pgs 26-38- Sound cards (color)

Pgs 39-80- Foldable mini-books (color)

Pgs 81-93- Sound cards (black and white)

Pgs 94-135- Foldable mini-books (black and white)

2- The Imitating Actions resource includes over 80 visuals and a wide range of activity/play ideas which have been designed to support the development of early actions and gestures. The activities within this resource are intended to be a fun and easy way to introduce children to new actions/gestures and to develop their imitation skills.

All of the activity ideas suggested use an evidence-based naturalistic approach for teaching imitation skills.

The Imitating Actions resource includes:

Pgs 5-8- Four therapist information pages, including milestones, evidence based-practice information, and tips for targeting imitation in therapy sessions.

Pg 9- A note to caregivers

Pgs 10-11- An actions checklist- great for gaining a baseline and progress monitoring

Pgs 12-24- A total of 26 half-page activity ideas pages for the actions (13 full pages)

Pg 25- Songs and rhymes list to accompany the activities

Pgs 26-39- 14 pages with 6 cards on each page (in color)

Pgs 40-53- 14 pages with 6 cards on each page (in black and white).

In both resources, there are color and black and white copies included, and within the zip file, there is a US version and a UK/AUS version, with spellings and vocabulary tailored for each.

⭐ This Resource is Perfect for:

✅ Children who have the prerequisite pre-linguistic skills, but are not yet imitating actions and body movements in play or routines.

✅ Children who are imitating actions and body movements in play and routines, but are not yet imitating sounds or using words.

✅ Therapists who want fresh ideas for supporting children to imitate actions and symbolic sounds and exclamatory words in play and routines.

✅ Sharing with parents and caregivers to support the carryover of skills and strategies for imitating actions and using symbolic sounds and exclamatory words at home.

❤️ Loved by Therapists:

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I love using this resource with my early intervention clients. It is good for data collection and home carryover to emphasize the importance of imitation skills for speech production to parents. Highly recommend!" - Rachel

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "This resource was wonderful for both my early intervention kiddos at work and my own toddler. It gave me tangible actions and sounds to work on and a way to track them. Thank you!" - Rebecca

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "The more resources for myself and parents that back up research, the better I feel! Having something tangible vs just my words allow the parents to understand my meaning and I feel as if they implement goals more in the home when able to see/take something home vs just me telling them in session. Love all these ideas that as a first year I may have missed!!" - Shyla