Help your students practice and generalize fluent speech outside the therapy room!

Fluency Scenes Adolescent contains 50 cards with illustrated scenes depicting common preteen/adolescent scenarios on the front and stimulus items on the back. Each set of cards within the deck teaches a fluency strategy in small, progressive steps. Strategies in the last set of cards target transfer and maintenance.

Fluency Scenes Adolescent Card Set

• Cards 1-5: Establishing fluency through increasing longer and more complex utterances
  Over-exaggerated mouth movements and slow rate of speech prepare students for future success as they learn to make their speech sound like a single, connected unit.
• Cards 6-9: Regulating/controlling the breath stream
  Mastering breath support/control is critical for fluent speech. These exercises help form the foundation for increasing fluency.
• Cards 10-14: Establishing light articulatory contact
  Using light articulatory contact helps students reduce tension in speech, which can decrease the length of a prolongation or block.
• Cards 15-19: Controlling speaking rate
  Students learn the effect of speaking rate on speech fluency and acquire useful strategies to control their rate of speech.
• Cards 20-24: Oral planning and coordination
  Students learn to visualize successful speaking situations.
• Cards 25-27: Desensitization
  Students acquire techniques to reduce anxiety and build confidence when speaking.
• Cards 28-31: Modifying the stuttering moment
  These exercises teach students how to change stuttering moments and decrease frustration.
• Cards 32-35: Reduction of word avoidance behaviors
  Students use these strategies to decrease fear of difficult words or situations.
• Cards 36-40: Self-awareness and self-monitoring
  Students take ownership of their speech and begin to monitor speech fluency independently.
• Cards 41-44: Positive attitude toward self and communication
  Students will recognize and embrace their uniqueness and develop personal pride.
• Cards 45-50: Transfer and maintenance
  Motivate students to work on speech skills outside of the therapy room with engaging activities.

Fluency Scenes Adolescent

• 50 double-sided, sturdy picture/stimuli cards (8½” x 11”)
• Instructions
• Vinyl storage folder